GOP governor candidate says Beyoncé is a “puppet of Beelzebub” & her music is “satanic chants”

Beyoncé on the Renaissance World Tour at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London on June 1, 2023
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North Carolina’s virulently anti-LGBTQ+ Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R) has a long history of spouting unhinged conspiracy theories on social media, including that the entertainment industry is controlled by “demons” and that none other than Beyoncé herself is “satanic.”

Robinson, who is currently the frontrunner for North Carolina’s Republican gubernatorial nomination, has made his anti-LGBTQ+ and conspiratorial views abundantly clear. As lieutenant governor, he formed a task force to investigate the supposed “indoctrination” of children in North Carolina’s public schools, claiming that teachers were “abusing” children by allowing them access to books about transgender characters. During a June 2021 address, he described “transgenderism” and homosexuality as “filth.” The following August, he made wildly offensive statements about trans people, calling the movement for transgender rights “demonic” and “full of the spirit of Antichrist.” In a November 2021 speech, he compared gay people to cow excrement and asserted that heterosexuals are “superior” to queer people. More recently in March, he said that God created him to battle against LGBTQ+ rights, and in May he falsely claimed that “clinics” are performing “transgender surgery” on 5-year-olds.

On Monday, Huff Post reported on more of Robinson’s lesser-known conspiratorial views concerning the entertainment industry. The outlet resurfaced Facebook posts from 2017 in which Robinson wrote…

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