I’ll rather be full of myself than be a terrorist sympathizer. Keep justifying the mass killing of people.

It feels like that’s what it’s come down to. We need to stop tolerating the intolerant.

I’m angry and I’m crying and I’m in shock. And my family and a lot of straight people on Facebook are like ‘oh it’s sad’ and I’m like, this is a devastating tragedy for my people, for my queer community. I’ve never felt this personally affected by a mass shooting or large scale attack but it happened during pride…

I hear you on the Taliban, it gets a little more blurry with ISIS. These guys are using a lot more than religion to recruit ‘disaffected’ kids and adults. Literally sex, guns, money, power, notoriety—standard appeals for gang recruitment, not so standard for buttoned-up conservative religious groups.

Someone on Twitter said this was his 18th time addressing the nation on a mass shooting. I'd be defeated too.

It’s more likely that he was raised to hate and fear people who are different. Sure there are self hating gays but there are plenty of straight people who hate gays often for religious reasons. Just like there are people who hate others over things like skin color and ethnicity.

gawker is filled with right-wingers?

Between him and Rick Scott I can understand why people overlook the beauty that is Florida in favor of the sheer idiocy that is also Florida.

I don’t think anyone fully gets it right now. All day I’ve just been retweeting and rereading others words because I can’t find my own. There is so much hate in the world and it needs to just stop. We need to stop tolerating racism, misogyny, homophobia and bigotry. We have to stand up against it, we can accept that…

Sure, it’s possible. It’s also pretty telling when the first reaction to a story like this is worry about muslim people. Not one thing was said about those killed and their families.

Great job on breaking this story, 12 hours after it began, and at least 9 hours after it was widely reported.

His father... may not have been completely forthcoming.

If this happened in any other country the US would warn against travelling there. There was a recent travel warning about going to France.

Yeah, that’s what you should be worried about. The poor muslim people, not the devastated families with dead loved ones.

It’s just a pathetic attempt at excusing Islam for this atrocity. Islam clearly had a huge influence, to say otherwise is to be intellectually dishonest.

it’s a cross-section of things: religious extremism, homophobia, masculinity-gone-wrong and gun culture. Incredibly sad.

Florida representative Alan Grayson also stated that the massacre was “more likely than not ideologically motivated.”

As a straight guy, I can’t understand how someone can see a gay couple and be offended enough that they feel it is necessary to take such extreme measures on innocent people simply for being who they are. The LGBT community isn’t offensive, its people like him that are offensive.

Despite confirmation of Mateen’s ties to extremist, jihadist ideology, his father, Mir Seddique, told reporters that this was not the case.“[This] has nothing to do with religion,” he said.