It’s been said that every group has its extreme, lunatic fringe.

I’ll start believing that when I hear a single member of the American Humanist Association spouting an opinion that’s anywhere near as extreme or crazy as those regularly expressed by this Christian….

—– Neal Horsley (Wikipedia)

Otis O’Neal Horsley, Jr. (born 1944) is an American political figure of the far right. He is the author of a website devoted to his advocacy of militant pro-life, secessionist, and anti-gay views….

Horsley was born in Bremen, Georgia. Horsley was a guest on The Alan Colmes Show, a FOX News radio program, on May 5, 2005. During that interview, and after repeated questions about his personal sinfulness, Mr. Horsley stated that when he was eleven years old he had engaged in bestiality with a mule on the farm he grew up on in Georgia. Afterwards, he says the mule relieved itself on him, and that he also engaged in sex with a man in the Air Force and a watermelon…. “I was a fool,” Horsley told Colmes, crediting Jesus with forgiving and cleansing him of his “sin.” After serving in the Air Force in the mid-1960s, Horsley traveled to San Francisco, California, where he claims to have become an anti-war advocate and hippie. Horsley did time in jail on charges of drug possession, and it was there in 1974 that he converted to Christianity.

After graduating from Westminster Theological Seminary in 1985, Horsley relocated to the Philadelphia area, but returned to Georgia in 1993, settling in Bremen, Georgia where he lives today with Bo Pollard….

Horsley is highly critical of the non-violent wing of the pro-life movement and openly advocates “waging war” (which many critics, such as the Anti-Defamation League, have interpreted as a potential advocacy of violence) as the only way to end abortion in the United States. Though he himself has never been charged with taking part in a violent act, he is widely thought to maintain contacts with those who have…. Horsley established his own political party called the “Creator’s Rights Party” and has run for governor of Georgia as its candidate on several occasions.

Horsley’s website began in 1995. His postings there brought him to the attention of other radicals within the anti-abortion movement, including Paul deParrie, who had compiled a set of files of personal information on doctors in the Portland, Oregon area. DeParrie shared his information with Horsley, who posted it at his website in a section called the “Nuremberg Files,” allegedly to assist in prosecution of doctors after the abolition of abortion. The Ninth Circuit found that publishing the files represented a true threat. Horsley has continued to denounce the court.

Horsley has appeared on Hannity & Colmes, Alan Keyes Is Making Sense, Today and The Big Story….

Horsley ran as a candidate for governor under his Creator’s Rights Party on a secessionist platform… and said he was willing to kill his own son, who is a Sergeant in the Army, if he were sent to Georgia to stop him from seceding, and admitted to nearly killing his son once before…. He has gathered many votes from supporters on a popular GOP brainstorming website, rebuildtheparty.com….

—– Georgia Candidate For Governor Says Sex With Mule, Watermelon Behind Him (Dylan Otto Krider/Underground Examiner; April 28)

(Warning: If the title isn’t a clue, the following post may offend some.)

Rude Pundit likes to tell the joke about a man sitting in a bar who says to no one in particular, “A man can spend his life building bridges. Do they call him John the Bridge Builder? No. A man can spend his life raising crops. Do they call him John the Farmer? No. But you screw one goat . . .”

When you’re a reporter, you occasionally have to ask uncomfortable questions of someone. In this case, I landed an interview with the Georgia Creator’s Rights Party candidate for governor, Neal Horsley, who is running on the secessionist platform. During the course of my research, I stumbled upon the fact that Horsley had screwed a mule. (Horsely originally fessed up in an Esquire article, which was picked up by Alan Colmes.) At that point, the campaign, the crusade, everything else kind of takes a backseat to the fact that he screwed a mule.

How exactly does one go about asking that one? Do you throw that question in at the end of interview, all casual like?

I first learned about Neal Horsley when he sent me an email telling me he had been following my articles on secession and wondered if I could help him get in contact with the head of the Georgia Militia. I told him, sadly, no, but was curious about a link to a website he gave me for his campaign for governor. And then, there was the mule thing, which I’ll get to.

He is running on the “nullification platform”, which is kind of secessionist lite. Though, looking over his platform, there doesn’t appear to be anything lite about it. But we’ll get to that later.

Now, about the mule. Here’s a snippet of his confession on Alan Colmes:

NH: “Absolutely. I was a fool. When you grow up on a farm in Georgia, your first girlfriend is a mule.”

AC: “I’m not so sure that that is so.”

NH: “You didn’t grow up on a farm in Georgia, did you?”

AC: “Are you suggesting that everybody who grows up on a farm in Georgia has a mule as a girlfriend?”

NH: It has historically been the case. You people are so far removed from the reality… Welcome to domestic life on the farm…”

Colmes said he thought there were a lot of people in the audience who grew up on farms, are living on farms now, raising kids on farms and “and I don’t think they are dating Elsie right now. You know what I’m saying?”

Horsley said, “You experiment with anything that moves when you are growing up sexually. You’re naive. You know better than that… If it’s warm and it’s damp and it vibrates you might in fact have sex with it.”

Yep. There was no way we weren’t going to ask about that one. It was just a matter of how. We worked in the question somewhat delicately this way: “So, as a candidate for Governor, are you worried about any skeletons in your closet that might get aired in the course of the campaign?”

“No, that’s why I’m running for Governor because I don’t have any skeletons in my closet,” he says. ” I’ve talked about things people would never have talked about. Any skeletons I have, I take them out and rattle them around.”

“What kinds of things?” I ask.

Without missing a beat, he says, “You know what you’re thinking about has been out there…”

“We’re talking about the mule now?”

Yes, he says. The mule.

“A small mule?” I ask.

“No, a full grown mule,” he says. “She loved me, though.”

We both laugh, but I’m still trying to figure out the logistics. How big is this thing? The size of a horse, he says.

“All I had to do was give her an ear of corn.” He laughs again. “She was a (prostitute) mule.”

“How did you reach?”

“I don’t know… I stood on something. The kicker is, as soon as I was done she pissed all over me. It was embarrassing. I never told anyone that before.”

That’s right, my friends. This is an Underground exclusive.

Not only that, but Horsley has had sex with men. He was in the Air Force, it was a cold night, yadda, yadda, yadda, he had sex with him, ahem, the way he did the mule. “It was gross,” he says.

Really? He hadn’t described the mule that way.

“I’ve (screwed) a watermelon,” he says. And that’s just for starters. He’s had sex with just about everything it’s physically possible to have sex with, and some that isn’t. “How many times have I masturbated in my life?” he asks. Now he’s 65 and orgasm-free for two years (his wife finally divorced him — too much “drama”, she said). “The bottom line is, I never treated it as if it were not a sin.”

Good to know….

To learn more about Mr. Horsley, check out these follow-up posts:

—– Secessionist Ready To Kill Own Son To Dissolve Union (Dylan Otto Krider/Underground Examiner; April 29)

—– Candidate For Governor Neal Horsley Says Terrorism Has Basis In Scripture (Dylan Otto Krider/Underground Examiner; April 30)