Lawmaker Reads Crude Web Posts at a High School - while discussing his stance on gay marriage

[Kadie]

Lawmaker Reads Crude Web Posts at School

Friday, February 9, 2007

(02-09) 07:19 PST Wrentham, Mass. (AP) --


A state senator used foul language in a talk to high school students in his district, but defended himself by saying he was just repeating what some students wrote about him on a Web site.

Sen. Scott Brown was discussing his stance on gay marriage during an assembly at King Philip Regional High School on Thursday when he decided to share the comments written about him and his family posted on a facebook.com page dedicated to a pro-gay rights history teacher at the school.

Brown, a Republican from Wrentham, opposes gay marriage.

"I hate scott brown" and "scott brown ascends from the underworld," were two of the tamer comments on the site. Others contained profanities.

Some of the comments were aimed at Brown's daughter, Ayla Brown, a former American Idol finalist.

He read the comments verbatim, even naming the students who wrote them in some cases, witnesses said.

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