RNC Chair Candidate: "Homosexuality is a compulsion that can be contained, repressed or changed."

[BigBearJohn]

Yes, that's what Ken Blackwell, the sketchy former Ohio Secretary of State who now has a good shot at running the Republican National Committee, told me a few months back, among some other very interesting and kooky things. It's a far cry from the days when the RNC was led by the 38-year-old "bachelor" of questionable sexual orientation, Ken Mehlman, but, according to The New York Times, Blackwell, a failed Ohio gubernatorial candidate who compared homosexuality to arson and kleptomania at the height of the campaign, may well be the RNC's next chair.

KB: No. What I said is that, in that regard, you can choose, people choose to be who they are, as they choose to break civil law and God's law...I think you can choose not to be homosexual...

MS: Did you choose to be heterosexual? Did you wake up one day and say I want to be heterosexual?

KB: The answer is that I've never had to make the choice because I've never had the urge to be other than a heterosexual, but if in fact I had the urge to be something else I could have in fact suppressed that urge.

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MS: But you realize people were insulted when you compared to arson and kleptomania. I would like you to explain that because, how does that get into this whole "choice" issue? I mean, kleptomania is a compulsion.

KB: Well, the fact is, you can choose to restrain that compulsion. And so I think in fact you don't have to give in to the compulsion to be homosexual. I think that's been proven in case after case after case...

SOURCE: http://www.signorile.com/2009/01/rnc-chair-candidate-homosexuality-is.html

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And just when I was thinking that just "maybe" I could reach out to the other side.
I'll reach out, alright. Here ya go, Blackwell. Sit on it and spin!!

[Lithos]

1. DU Membership: "Republicanism is a compulsion that can be contained, repressed or changed."

Yes, we did...

L-

[razors edge]

2. Well then I hope he will get Larry Craig straightened out.

Seems like the least he could do for his party.

Can we Ohioans divorce this idiot?

[MrScorpio]

3. Is this coming from personal experience for Mr. Blackwell?

Makes one wonder since he brought it up.

[silverojo]

4. Too bad Blackwell doesn't suppress his urge to RIG ELECTIONS - n/t

[peace13]

5. Blackwell is the stain on the underwear of life.

Do not look for him to be rational or compassionate. peace, Kim

[beac]

9. That's actually an insult to stains AND underwear. n/t

[undeterred]

6. Ambien and duct tape.

That's how he contains his urges.

[Ian David]

7. Obviously, his own, personal experience is that he's repressed his own homosexuality. n/t

[beac]

8. Does the contest to become RNC chairman include a competition for who can make the

most vile and outrageous comment? Seems like every day one of the asshats in contention shoots off his nasty mouth with an even more disgusting assertion than the last guy.

Does RNC really stand for Reconstituted Nazi Committee??

[ZombieHorde]

10. This just in: Republicans are ignorant, bigoted, assholes. (that's right, I used a broad brush)

Tomorrow: In the name of patriotism, Republicans hope Obama's Presidency fails. (another broad brush, suck on it broad brush haters)

[Jamastiene]

12. There isn't a brush wide enough to cover the amount of cockroaches,

I mean, homophobes crawling out of the woodwork.

[Jamastiene]

11. Hell, no! We should not reach out to those sick bastards.

They need to learn to control their own compulsion to crotch sniff every gay person in the world and then open their big fat mouths like they think somebody died and made them God. I'm sick and damn tired of homophobic assholes like that.

Up yours, Blackwell!