Michigan Republican leader Dave Agema: Gay people 'want free medical because they're dying'

[Newsjock]

Source: MLive Media Group

Michigan Republican National Committeeman Dave Agema, a former state representative from Grandville, is facing criticism for another round of controversial remarks about gay marriage.

Agema, who used a poorly-sourced website to denounce "filthy homosexuals" earlier this year, reiterated his opposition to same-sex relationships on Thursday at the Berrien County Republican Party Holiday Reception.

... "Folks, they (gay people) want free medical because they're dying (when they're) between 30 and 44 years old," Agema said. "To me, it's a moral issue. It's a Biblical issue. Traditional marriage is where it should be and it's in our platform. Those in our party who oppose traditional marriage are wrong."

... The state committee is scheduled to meet this Saturday in Lansing. Paul Welday, an Oakland County district chair for the Michigan Republican Party, told MLive that he considers a committee censure unlikely, but he suggested that the party cannot afford to ignore Agema's comments with important elections coming up in 2014 and 2016.

Read more: http://www.mlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/12/michigan_gop_committeeman_dave.html

[iandhr]

1. I don't what is worse.

The outrageous statement. Or that is doesn't surprise me.

[sakabatou]

3. Same

[vlakitti]

4. Absolutely. Well put.

I guess I've lived a charmed life, but I've never met anyone remotely like that.

[Bradical79]

16. I'll tell you what's worse

This guy stood up in front of fellow Republicans, lied and made hate filled statements, and the district chair says a censure is unlikely.

The state committee is scheduled to meet this Saturday in Lansing. Paul Welday, an Oakland County district chair for the Michigan Republican Party, told MLive that he considers a committee censure unlikely, but he suggested that the party cannot afford to ignore Agema's comments with important elections coming up in 2014 and 2016.

Most of his fellow Republican politicians won't be mad about this guy being a hateful bigot, they're just unhappy he let his bigotry show in public.

[warrant46]

23. Amazing that we have been dumbed down

to accept shit like this.

[Lobo27]

2. I'm not even surprised anymore...

Something in the brain of these people just does not click... Perhaps its evolution and the human race is separating into to different races. I don't even know anymore...

[SoapBox]

5. Chalk up another PukingTeaTerrorist that

HATES American citizens.

[eggplant]

6. Ahh, Grandville. In the heart of the northern Bible Belt. n/t

[KamaAina]

7. Today's Worst. Person. In The World!

[Demeter]

8. He's only 20-30 years out of date, that's all

It's hard to keep track of reality and your private fantasies at the same time.

[srican69]

9. but but .. are't we all dying?

[KansDem]

10. Yeah, but SOME OF US ARE DYING BECAUSE WE'RE STRAIGHT!!!

Last edited Tue Dec 10, 2013, 09:03 PM - Edit history (1)

Whereas, [font size="1"]some of us are dying because we're gay

[font size="2"] See the difference?

Edited to add:

[AtheistCrusader]

11. Not me. I intend to live forever.

Like that squeak in your hallway, that you can never find or glue down.

[marble falls]

12. Please tell me this guy stands for re-election 2014.

[catbyte]

13. OMFG. I live about 10 miles from Grandville, and he & his ilk are a never-ending

source of embarrassment to tens of thousands of us who are stuck in the Bagger Bible Belt that is southwest lower Michigan. Gack.

[Javaman]

14. And someone with a heart and compassion would answer, what's wrong with that?

they should get it.

Of course this goes beyond what the fucking moron repuke was saying, but you get my point.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

15. Dave, we're ALL dying ...

... we just want the best health we can get, for as long as we live, hopefully until we're many years old.

[MichiganVote]

17. Running out of Darwin awards in Michigan.

[truthisfreedom]

18. Republifucks need free health care because they're mental defectives.

Unfuckingbelieveable.

[mdbl]

20. ROFL!

Thanks for cutting through the crap!

[olddad56]

19. No one is opposing traditional marriage....

No one is says that a man and a woman can't get married. Most people are saying it is time to recognize same sex marriages also.

I would oppose this clown having offsprings.

[ck4829]

21. Is he reading the work of discredited crackpot Paul Cameron?

[Orsino]

22. GOPers desperate for enemies because they're dying. n/t

[TrogL]

24. The 'poorly sourced' website is run by a KKK member

http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/dave-agemas-filthy-homosexuals-post-features-research-by-kkk-organizing-holocaust-denier/politics/2013/04/07/64740#.Uqi4DfvLeKI

[MrScorpio]

25. I will put up our horrible GOPers against anyone else's in the country

And I will beat them all like red headed step children

[Feral Child]

26. Vile. K&R n/t

[putitinD]

27. the GOP thinks it was much better when these "dying" people got their "free" healthcare

at the ER