Anti-Gay Lawmaker Predicts a Violent Backlash Against Gays Seeking Civil Rights

[marmar]

from AlterNet's PEEK:



Anti-Gay Lawmaker Predicts a Violent Backlash Against Gays Seeking Civil Rights

Posted by Pam Spaulding, Pam's House Blend at 2:13 PM on March 18, 2008.

My, my, these bigots are getting bold.



My, my, these bigots are getting bold. Oregon recently passed legislation that prohibits housing and employment discrimination based on sexual orientation, but there is a repeal effort under way, and one of the three lawmakers leading the charge is State Senator Gary George ([e-mail]).

The local LGBT publication Just Out, managed to snare an interview with George, and he had quite a lot to say about the uppity homos. A snippet.

Just Out: What sort of special rights do you feel that the Oregon Equality Act offers?

George: First off, I thought that was a fabrication of definition, in the sense that you gave special rights, it picks out another group, a lifestyle group, and says hmm, you have all these protections. The main thing that bothered us with the whole bill was the fact that here we go again, adding one more class of people that need to have special rights.

Just Out: What if an employee is fired because of his/her sexual orientation or gender identity? Isn't the Oregon Equality Act in place to guard against such discrimination?

George: As an employer, I don't wanna hear about it. This workplace is for work purposes. My advice to the gay community is SHUT UP, just don't talk about it. If you walk around talking about what you do in the bedroom, you should be on the pervert channel.

Just Out: What is your reaction to the recent murders of out gay youth in Florida and California?

George: Obviously murder is murder, there's no excuse for that. Here's what I'm saying, I think we're seeing a backlash, in other words if you push me too hard don't be surprised if I react. Gays will tend to react violently if people are oppressive toward them. If gays are oppressive toward straights, then you'll see a violent backlash. You're going to have a point where these groups develop and say I'm tired of these special privileges.

Jesus. These are truly hateful people. You have to wonder what this man would do if he had a child who didn't' fit gender norms, or was gay/lesbian. This man is justifying the tragic deaths of people because of discomfort some have with extending basic civil rights to a group of taxpaying citizens. This is sick.

As Blender Lee said, "civil but firm messages can be sent to Senator George at [e-mail]."


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[Solly Mack]

1. "special" rights bullshit. By denying equal protection and equal rights

special rights are created...and it ain't the LGBT community with those special rights.

[marmar]

3. This George person seems like a real piece of ..... work.

n/t

[louis-t]

2. He doth protest too much.

He may still be in the closet.

[LostinVA]

29. Ugh -- I hate this homophobes are secretly gay shit

Are racists secretly black?

[Toasterlad]

4. Holy Christ, I Wish That Guy Had Cancer.

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[Toasterlad]

8. You Wanna Lay Off The Bullshit, Your Majesty?

In case you haven't caught on from the hundreds of previous incidents, it's tacky and ignorant to accuse homophobes of being gay without justification. The guy's name is NOT justification.

We won't even get into "pole-smoker", which I've always, actually, found amusing, but which in and of itself is no doubt getting you alerted right about...now.

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[Toasterlad]

16. Sorry to Lecture You, But You Really Should Know Better.

How can we expect the straight people to quit the fucking homophobe = closeted gay nonsense if guys like you are endorsing it?

[tachyon]

19. Sorry, I didn't mean to endorse bigotry, I was trying to expose hypocrisy.

Maybe I'm not very good at it.
;-)

[Toasterlad]

21. He's Only a Hypocrite If He's Gay. There is No Evidence Here That He Is.

Right now, he's just an evil fuckface. Unless some evidence comes to light that he's in the closet, implying that he's only homophobic because he's afraid to come out does way more harm than good, even if you were only kidding.

Sorry to keep harping on you, but this has been a real sore-spot with me ever since Larry Craig opened the floodgates for "all Republicans are gay!" vileness.

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[mitchtv]

24. Thanks Toasty

I didn't like where this was going ( the guy impressed me as a strait Christian)

[LostinVA]

26. That's about as believable as the line

"But my gay best friends LOVES it when we make gay jokes at him!"

[marmar]

10. A pole smoker?

Classy. :eyes:

[tachyon]

12. HAHAHA.....wow

I guess we're not allowed to poke a little fun at ourselves any more. jeezus...
see my reply to...whoever it was. Good grief.

[marmar]

15. Sorry, I didn't know you were gay.....

.... I'm not, so I guess I just assumed it was another fellow breeder posting more oh-so-unfunny gay quips. (That happens a lot around here.) Sorry about my overreaction.

[tachyon]

18. No sweat...I really shouldn't be so flip I suppose. We've been together so long,

we don't really much notice it when the rare bigotry surfaces inside our own little world - but we do fight it in the larger political arena, though; very publicly at times. :D

[LostinVA]

27. I doubt he's gay

I've seen it as a growing trend around here to crack gay jokes, then go, "But I'm gay too!" Meanwhile, these are never posters that support equal rights for gays around here.

[Canuckistanian]

6. I'd call that inciting violence

The homphobic bastards out there are just BEGGING for validation.

Gary George is giving them that validation.

[JerseygirlCT]

7. He packed an awful lot of stereotypes and jargon into

just those few paragraphs. Pretty amazing.

"special rights" "Lifestyle". Talking about sex lives. (I guess he never mentions his wfe at the office, right? Or his in-laws? And if he did he'd be some sort of perv?)

Justfying the murder of gay kids?

It's hard to believe that people still feel free to spew this sort of talk in public.

[Jack Rabbit]

9. He must be smoking the kool ade, not drinking it.

Gays will tend to react violently if people are oppressive toward them.

So when do they start reacting violently? Or does the good senator believe that trying to get bigots like him out of office is violence?

[burythehatchet]

13. As a straight dude

I would deck this cretin

[tachyon]

14. And as a gay dude, I'll kick his supine butt into the ditch after you do.

:D
:D

[LeftyMom]

17. I want in on the asskicking.

[GOPisEvil]

20. Special privileges? Is this dude high?

All any human wants is the same rights as the person next to him or her. You know, that whole "all men are created equal" crap this country was founded upon.

What an intellectually lazy asshat this dude is.

[icymist]

23. A bigot is a bigot is a bigot......

In his own words, "adding one more class of people that need to have special rights", says it all. I wonder what other class of people he's talking about? People of color? Latinos? Native Americans? Women? Liberals? This statement make me think that the GLBT community isn't the first minority community he's spoken about in such a manner.

[mitchtv]

25. Violent Backlash?

So, nothing new.

[Deep13]

28. The backlash was in '04. It is swinging towards gay rights now. nt

[skypilot]

30. Why can't these idiots ever speak in...

...coherent sentences?

First off, I thought that was a fabrication of definition, in the sense that you gave special rights, it picks out another group...blah...blah...blah...

I understand which side this guy is on but I still had to read that sentence about five fucking times.