Pastor Refuses to Walk Through Airport Scanners, Would Rather Be Frisked Than Risk Security Machines 'Turning You Gay'

A Christian pastor and social media influencer stated his belief that full-body scanners at the airport can "turn people gay," hence explaining his preference for being patted down by security instead.

Andrew Isker, a Fourth Street Evangelical Church preacher and conspiracy theorist, took to his podcast "Contra Mundum" on Friday to share his stance on airport scanners, describing them as "gay beams."

"I had to be molested at the airport to go to Florida, just to get on an airplane because I'm not gonna go through the gay beam machine. I didn't let CJ do it, I wouldn't let him do it. I said, 'You're getting patted down too buddy, I don't want them turning you gay,'" said Isker.

"It appears, having a guy touch you all over the place on its face seems worse, but you don't really know what those things are doing to you. They can just take a picture of me naked? Like, no," he continued.

Full body scanners at airports look for items otherwise undetected by searches, including non-metal items that metal detectors would not be able to pick up. They cannot take naked pictures of subjects that pass through them, nor is there any evidence to suggest that passing through them impacts one's sexuality at all.

The machines simply indicate the presence of illicit items to airport security by demonstrating a silhouette to agents through the use of X-ray, infra-red and Millimeter wave scanners.

Isker, who has previously publicly shared homophobic views, appeared on the Tucker Carlson Network in April, during which he claimed he left his home state of Minnesota for declaring "war on Christians," continuing to state that members of the LGBTQ+ community were "naturally sinful" and associated with "financial sin".