UFC fighter says he’ll home-school son so he doesn’t ‘end up turning gay’
American mixed martial artist Bryce Mitchell said he will be home-schooling his infant son because he doesn’t “want him to be gay.”
“We’re going to have to home-school all our kids or they’re all going to end up turning gay,” Mitchell, 29, said in an Instagram video Wednesday while holding his son, Tucker, who he said was born on March 29. “That’s the reason I’m going to home-school Tucker, because I don’t want him to be a communist. I don’t want him to worship Satan. I don’t want him to be gay.”
Mitchell, a 16-3 UFC featherweight fighter whose nickname is “Thug Nasty,” made the homophobic remarks right after he encouraged his nearly 500,000 Instagram followers not to vaccinate their children and just before he complained that public schools don’t have students reading the Bible.
“They took it out of the schools and replaced it with Edgar Allen Poe, who shacked up with his cousin,” said Mitchell, an Arkansas native who works as a cattle farmer when he’s not in an MMA cage. “My son ain’t going to be reading no Edgar Allan Poe, OK? He’s going to be reading the Bible.”
It wasn’t clear whether Mitchell — who has shared publicly that he believes the Earth is flat — plans to home-school Tucker himself.
So, “an American man is fucking stupid” hardly constitutes news, especially when he’s also an MMA fighter. I’m not even surprised by him being a flerfer. It’s the… particular antipathy towards E.A. Poe that’s striking here, cos I can’t believe schools are actually teaching Poe somehow and I also can’t believe Mitchell’s actually heard of him or knows anything about him. That’s quite possibly just my prejudices talking, of course, but in any case I still find the singling out of Poe quite bizarre. Cos if Mitchell’s offended by Eddie shacking up with his cousin, I can only presume he’s never read about Abram/Abraham in the Bible and who he was married to… and he couldn’t even say “well God must’ve been OK with it” cos that specific sort of marriage later gets outlawed in Leviticus. A peculiar story, which I hope ends with baby Tucker being taken away from his manifestly unfit father…
