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Crazy Anti-Gay Newsmakers: Drunk Or Stoned? Your Choice

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Dumb & Dumber: Perry & Esk

In the nutty world of anti-gay, right-wing, nut bag politicians – it’s hard to keep up. It’s something new nearly every day. Yesterday, there were two scoops of crazy circulating, both from down south, that you may have caught wind of…

1. Oklahoma Tea Party candidate Scott Esk (R) has endorsed stoning gay people to death. An Oklahoma magazine discovered that last summer he made the following statements, and when further pressed on the issue on Facebook posts, he kept talking and dug in his heels:

“I think we would be totally in the right to do it… [stoning gay people to death] goes against some parts of libertarianism, I realize, and I’m largely libertarian, but ignoring as a nation things that are worthy of death is very remiss…. that was done in the Old Testament under a law that came directly from God and in that time there it was totally just. It came directly from God. I have no plans to reinstitute that in Oklahoma law. I do have some very huge moral misgivings about those kinds of sins. I know what was done in the Old Testament and what was done back then was what’s just. … and I do stand for Biblical morality.”

2. Texas Govenor Rick Perry (R) defended his state party’s recent embrace of “reparative therapy” for gays. The Texas GOP has endorsed an official platform that includes support for gay conversion therapy (btw, a practice not accepted by the American Psychological Association):

“Whether or not you feel compelled to follow a particular lifestyle or not, you have the ability to decide not to do that. I may have the genetic coding that I’m inclined to be an alcoholic, but I have the desire not to do that, and I look at the homosexual issue the same way.”

Now these are both outrageous things to say that are more comical than threatening – if they were said by your bigoted uncle and not men in positions that can influence even stupider folks. I’m from Texas and my mother lives in Oklahoma so, on more than one level, these both hit home. I will say, in their defense, that when you take in these two statements together, you kinda do either want to get stoned or have a good stiff shot of somthin’. But, on a more hopeful note, people can and DO change.

3. Libby Phelps-Alvarez, the granddaughter of the late Westboro Baptist Church founder Fred Phelps posed for the NOH8 campaign. She made news when she defected from the “church” in 2009 and recently pledged her support for Planting Peace, a non-profit advocacy group which bought the house across the street from the Westboro compound in Topeka, Kansas – and painted it in rainbow colors. Libby posed with her husband, Logan, their newborn son Paxton as well as some members of Planting Peace’s Equality House.

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