Cereal-burning anti-LGBT protester dies

[warrior1]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/15/cereal-burning-anti-lgbt-protester-dies/

Michael L. Leisner, the man who became world famous for an anti-LGBT protest gone wrong, has died suddenly at the age of 65. According to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, the father of four abruptly passed away while sitting in his car, waiting for his two sons to finish their Saturday afternoon tennis practice.

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[GreenPartyVoter]

1. I just saw him on TDS. While I didn't care for his stand on LGBT, I am sorry

he is gone and wish all the best to his family.

[datasuspect]

2. "Vengeance is mine" sayeth the Lord

probably ate too many Chik fil A sandwiches.

he should have eaten the cheerios rather than burn them

[physioex]

6. Reading the comments...

Cheerio old chap.

[datasuspect]

8. some of them are pretty funny

if you're the gallows humor type.

[Arugula Latte]

3. ...

[Comrade_McKenzie]

4. "Father of four" :-( nt

[reflection]

5. Aw man. I started that thread making fun of him

for his stupid cereal stunt.

It's a shame he (presumably) wasn't able to see the truth before he died. I believe in redemption, but it looks like he checked out before it happened. Sad. He'll be remembered now as a hateful bigot.

[NightWatcher]

7. I wonder if he was listening to rw hate radio in the car when he gave out.

all that hate will eat you from the inside out like a cancer

[freshwest]

9. Was it a hot day? Might have been a heart attack. Weird, I thought he was younger in the video.

[Brother Buzz]

19. Think of the irony: Had he embraced healthy diet of Cheerioes instead of burning them.....

[freshwest]

23. Been better off with some granola, yogurt and fruit. Apparently wasn't feeling frisky enough to get

Out of the car and sit closer to the kids playing tennis. I think most right wingers suffer from fatty livers and constipation.

His silly action with the Cheerios may have been a hate-radio induced fugue state, for all we know, not his regular behavior.

I'm betting he watched a lot of Fox Noise, or got suckered into listening to right wing religionists. They sold him the idea he needed to save the world from 'teh gay.'

What General Mills gave its employees was none of his business. There's a scripture about that.

[Brother Buzz]

24. Yes, and I'm betting he a participated in that Chick-fil-A appreciation day fiasco

Choices have consequences

[freshwest]

27. I read the ingredients on that stuff. Nasty.

[Scuba]

10. No doubt another victim of auto-erotic asphyxiation.

[datasuspect]

11. the kids shouldn't have left him in the car with the windows rolled up

someone needed a grown up that day.

i wonder if they were at hate-mart?

[BigDemVoter]

12. Oh dear. . . I wish I could say I was sorry. . . .

But I'm not. I wonder why?

[stevenleser]

13. Same reason it would be hard for me to be sad if a Neo-Nazi died.

I would try to be sad, but I wouldnt try real hard...

[vaberella]

14. RIP. I thought he was faking the protest and making fun of anti-LGBT people.

Not to be funny. But hating things doesn't help you live longer.

[DefenseLawyer]

15. All that time and energy wasted on hate.

Not much of a legacy.

[HappyMe]

17. Exactly.

I wonder if, in the end, that much hate kills.

[Alduin]

16. Meh.

[Lint Head]

18. Well Cheerio!

[SoCalDem]

20. Kind of sad..

He died alone in his car....doing his "dad-thing", but his last act of any recognition is his being a total IDIOT, lighting cereal on fire to protest gay people?

sadly ironic..

[Lone_Star_Dem]

21. I imagine it was his kiddos who found him then.

That's just sad. No child should have to go through finding their parent dead like that. Poor kids.

[GreenPartyVoter]

26. Oh, man. I hadn't thought of that. :^(

[kestrel91316]

22. The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away. Looks like the Lord took Michael Leisner home.

The trail of flaming Cheerios was awesome. His hate protest, not so much.

[name not needed]

25. .

[beyurslf]

28. hmph. too bad he lived to hate

[TeamPooka]

29. He almost made it thru his whole life without letting people know what an idiot he was

Whew.
That was a close one.

[Kaleva]

30. R.I.P. and condolences to his family

[independentpiney]

31. Condolences to the family

but besides the homophobia- what is a 65 year old man doing with sons (plural) young enough to need a ride to the tennis courts? It just seems kind of selfish to me to have children at such an advanced age that they have a very high risk of growing up without you.

[sibelian]

32. ??? I thought that video as a parody anyway...

poor guy.