GOP Lawmaker Compares Gays To Pedophiles To Defend Discrimination

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Me thinks thou dost protest too much.... Seems to me they WANT to create a link between
sexual orientation and pedophilia, which would ultimately protect abusers...
Hmmmm...wonder why?
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"There is nothing to stop bigamy, pedophilia or any other sexual practice from receiving the same protection."
02/12/2016

A West Virginia lawmaker argued that defending LGBT rights would open the door to protections for pedophiles.

At a legislative hearing Friday, Republican Del. Tom Fast argued against an amendment to a bill that would ban discrimination against same-sex couples. The non-discrimination amendment (which ultimately failed) was added to a bill that would let Uber operate in the state.

"Once homosexual, bisexual and transgender behavior is elevated to a protected status, there is nothing to stop bigamy, pedophilia or any other sexual practice from receiving the same protection," Fast said.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/gays-pedophiles-gop-lawmaker-west-virginia-discrimination_us_56be42a2e4b08ffac12544f6

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NC lawmaker suggests pedophilia is a sexual orientation

RALEIGH – As state lawmakers debated a proposal to prevent charter schools from discriminating against applicants based on sexual orientation, one representative suggested Tuesday that adult sexual attraction to children is a sexual orientation like homosexuality....

http://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2014/06/25/nc-lawmaker-suggests-pedophilia-sexual-orientation/11346073/

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1. What Scalia said about this...

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said it was not up to courts to grant LGBT legal protections and in the process, compared gay people to pedophiles.

Speaking at Georgetown University Law School Monday, Scalia said the Constitution guaranteed only religious and political protections, The New York Times reported, and that it was not up to judges to determine which other minority groups deserved legal protections.

“What minorities deserve protection?” he said rhetorically. “What? It’s up to me to identify deserving minorities?”

“What about pederasts?” he asked. “What about child abusers?”

“This is a deserving minority,” he went on, jokingly. “Nobody loves them.”

He argued that it instead should be up to the democratic process to determine which minority groups deserve legal protections.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/scalia-gay-people-pedophiles

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2. And it is to that Party that President Obama looks for his Justices?

This is why I just don't trust the Moderate Straight Democrats.

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3. ...well Obama might just be throwing chum in the water

to see if he gets any bites.