ABRAHAMIC RELIGIOUS SELF-LOATHING: “The Reason the Orlando Shooter Committed His Crime” / The Young Turks / Cenk Uygur ☮

Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks discusses the man who attacked the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida. Cenk talks about the real reason the shooter committed this horrific crime.

ABRAHAMIC RELIGIOUS REPRESSED HOMOSEXUALITY: “How Rhetorically Shocking: Orlando Terrorist was a ‘Regular’ at Gay Club” / Secular Talk / Kyle Kulinski ☮

Early Sunday morning, Omar Mateen shot and killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, perpetrating the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. Mateen, his father explained the next day, had repeatedly been angered by the sight of two men kissing.

POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Presidential Candidates React to the Orlando Shooting” / RT America / Anya Parampil ☮

The candidates were quick to the react the Orlando shooting on social media, and quick to politicize it. Both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump also gave speeches on the Orlando tragedy. Clinton opened her speech by saying “Today is not a day for politics,” but then proceeded to take several indirect shots at Donald Trump. RT America’s Lindsay France joins Anya Parampil to discuss the presidential candidates’ reactions to the shooting. Then, Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein tells Anya Parampil about her reaction to the Orlando shooting and expresses her sadness that “LGBTQ community was specifically targeted on Pride Week” in this latest attack.