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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Tue Nov 22, 2016, 12:43 PM Nov 2016

Montana Trump elector calls for executing gays: 'Hang them up where they can be seen'

Source: RawStory

Dennis Scranton, a 92-year-old Miles City man, is one of President-Elect Donald Trumps electoral college voters. Now some of his remarks about LGBT people that he posted on Facebook in 2010 are coming under fire.

According to The Missoulian, Scranton commented that gay people should be hanged.

Seven years ago, the 2010 story was reported by The Billings Gazette as part of a takedown of Big Sky Tea Party Association leader Tim Ravndal that cost him his chairmanship. At the time, Ravndal was blasting the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) for their lawsuit in favor of same-sex couples. He wrote on his Facebook, marriage between a man and a woman period!

Scranton took things a bit further. I think fruits are decorative. Hang up where they can be seen and appreciated. Call Wyoming for display instructions, he said. Wyoming is the site where Matthew Shepard was severely beaten, tied to a fence and left for dead just outside of Laramie in the late 1990s. When he spoke to The Gazette this week, he didnt back down from his remarks, however.

Dont forget, Im 93 years old. I come from a different era. I hadnt heard of anyone being homosexual until I joined the Navy, and then I encountered them, Scranton said. We were raised with good morals.

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Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2016/11/montana-trump-elector-calls-for-executing-gays-hang-them-up-where-they-can-be-seen/

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Montana Trump elector calls for executing gays: 'Hang them up where they can be seen' (Original Post) DonViejo Nov 2016 OP
...Seven years ago, the 2010 Ellipsis Nov 2016 #1
Typo? Having trouble with links today, links within an article. DonViejo Nov 2016 #5
Isn't he special? BeyondGeography Nov 2016 #2
typical from that period, but still Afromania Nov 2016 #3
"Marriage between a man and woman period!" ProfessorGAC Nov 2016 #4
So, can we mark this guy down as a 'no' in an attempt to flip GOP electors? Aristus Nov 2016 #6
With any luck 2naSalit Nov 2016 #7
Good god. Nt leftyladyfrommo Nov 2016 #8
can a state impeach an elector? wordpix Nov 2016 #9
Maybe he will croak by then titaniumsalute Nov 2016 #10

Afromania

(2,769 posts)
3. typical from that period, but still
Tue Nov 22, 2016, 01:07 PM
Nov 2016

Fuck this guy and his bullshit morals. Evil has a way of sticking around way too long.

ProfessorGAC

(65,076 posts)
4. "Marriage between a man and woman period!"
Tue Nov 22, 2016, 01:10 PM
Nov 2016

Says who? Randval and Scranton can go pound sand. (To be clear, i'm a 60 year old married straight guy. And, they definitely go pound sand.)

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