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Iowa GOP condemns candidate’s anti-gay comments

August 18, 2010 by B. Daniel Blatt

And I thought Republicans welcomed such comments — or so our critics tell us.

“A Republican Party official on Tuesday criticized anti-gay comments made by a Republican who is running for the Iowa House“:

Candidate Jeremy Walters of Des Moines wrote on his Facebook page that the Bible says gays should be killed, and that he believes AIDS was designed by God to kill them. . . .

Tuesday, Matt Strawn, the party’s chairman, said in a statement: “Mr. Walters’ comments are inappropriate and in no way represent the beliefs of the Republican Party of Iowa. HIV/AIDS does not discriminate, and our hearts and prayers go out to any Iowa family facing this disease.”

Filed Under: 2010 Elections

Comments

  1. Totakikay says

    August 18, 2010 at 9:55 pm - August 18, 2010

    That comment is truly anti-gay and whether a Democrat or Republican said it, privately or publicly, its a twisted awful thing to say.

  2. chad says

    August 18, 2010 at 10:18 pm - August 18, 2010

    Are they able to get the guy off the ballot? It’s good they’re rebuking him, but I would think they would want to go further than that, especially if he doesn’t apologize. I’m not in favor of trying to squash people from speaking their minds, but some things just cross the line.

  3. heliotrope says

    August 18, 2010 at 10:54 pm - August 18, 2010

    The extreme social conservatives are no different than the leftists who think Obama has failed them by being way too moderate.

    The small group who want to see God turn gays into pillars of salt will never go away nor will they ever be satisfied until everyone agrees with their reading of scripture. What is really fascinating about these folks is that they scrap among themselves over who has the clearest understanding of the imponderables.

    Jeremy Walters of Des Moines should stump across his district spewing his views and holding his donation cup out. That way, he will know who to damn when he is buried at the polls. And should it get him elected, it will inform the rest of Iowa that they have mouth foaming prophet of doom in their midst.

    However, sometimes people come onto this site with tales of legions of Jeremy Walters out there ready to take over the government and forcing people to bow down to them. It just goes to show that for every nut case there is an equal and opposite nut case.

  4. ThatGayConservative says

    August 18, 2010 at 11:31 pm - August 18, 2010

    On the one hand, he likes watching Ellen. On the other, he also likes watching Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura. Plus, he’s a Ronulan volunteer.

    I am the only Candidate that I know of that was raised in Group Homes in tell I was 17.

    Uggh.

  5. ThatGayConservative says

    August 18, 2010 at 11:35 pm - August 18, 2010

    He also says:

    I appologize for the mistake and if this statement offened anyone.
    Both postings have been removed and these comments do not pertain to my campaign or the Republican Party of Iowa.My passion is to listen and learn from the people so I can represent them at the state house. Everyone makes mistakes, please forgive me.

    And:

    since everthing that happin Today. I am ban from any events that the Republican party puts on so now what? Am I a bad candidate I want to represent the people not myself.

  6. Countervail says

    August 19, 2010 at 1:06 am - August 19, 2010

    Isn’t it interesting that when someone form the GOP actually stands up to someone else in the GOP for saying something disparaging about gay men and women, it has to be noted and promoted since it’s such a rare occurrence? And yet, when it’s done constantly on the Left, acknowledging and appreciating gay men and women, so far as to have those individuals so intertwined in their lives to not even think about them being gay, we don’t even think twice about it, no comment is necessary?

  7. ThatGayConservative says

    August 19, 2010 at 1:36 am - August 19, 2010

    to not even think about them being gay,

    Which is why they’re kept in their little victim group, right?

  8. The_Livewire says

    August 19, 2010 at 6:48 am - August 19, 2010

    Wow, Countervail, do you and reality ever talk much?

    Bush appoints a lesbian as poet Lauiret (sp?) no news.

    Qbama appoints a possible lesbian to the Supreme court, the left goes into a tizzy denying it.

    Dick Cheney openly supports his (lesbian) daughter, says SSM is an issue left to the states. Silence.

    Democrats control 2 out of 3 branches (some say all three) and still no SSM, they get a pass.

    California legally adopts the resolution of marriage being defined as one man and one woman, outrage.

    Obama supports it, silence.

    Isn’t it amazing how the left gets a pass for the same things they excoriate the right for? And isn’t it amazing that the support from the right never gets commented on?

  9. The Other Peter H says

    August 19, 2010 at 9:53 am - August 19, 2010

    Yeah, but doesn’t the Iowa GOP platform sound like some social issues christianist manifesto? Why do State’s GOP platforms have such nonsense in them and then when a candidate seemingly follows the platform formulae, they get into trouble? If the party had their heads on straight (NPI) from the get-go, there would be less gaffes and ginned up outrage.

  10. heliotrope says

    August 19, 2010 at 10:02 am - August 19, 2010

    I love the English language as practiced by people who are foreign to simple rules of construction. Check this out:

    Isn’t it interesting that when someone form the GOP actually stands up to someone else in the GOP for saying something disparaging about gay men and women, it has to be noted and promoted since it’s such a rare occurrence?

    What is the rare occurrence? Is it someone in the GOP saying something disparaging?

    Oh, I know Counterrail meant that someone form from the GOP standing up to another in the GOP who has gone off the rails is what is the rare occurrence.

    So, that leads me ask Counterrail to please link to all the crazy Pelosi, Reid, Waters, Frank, Obama, Biden, Dean, etc. type horsefeathers and snark the GOP pulls that goes unchallenged.

  11. Brian Reno says

    August 19, 2010 at 10:41 am - August 19, 2010

    hmm… i guess g-d REALLY wants to kill african heteros, then, cos they’re the ones getting hiv/aids in the millions….. what a jackass this douchebag is!

  12. ThatGayConservative says

    August 19, 2010 at 11:54 am - August 19, 2010

    I’m a bit confused over the kerfuffle. As I understand it, it was supposed to be a private FB conversation with someone he knows. It wound up public, somehow, and has been taken out of context. He said that he was speaking of the Old Testament laws which changed when Jesus was crucified and people can be saved through Him. That last part, evidently, was left out. He doesn’t seem to me to have the hatred in his heart that is being attributed to him.

    And, it seems, that he has apologized perfusely over a misunderstanding of part of the conversation. Apparently, he’s been rendered persona-non-grata by the Iowa GOP.

    In a way, I kinda feel sorry for him in the sense that I get the sense that he’s kind of naive, from what I’ve pieced together. His spelling and grammar (in writing) is pretty bad. It also seems that he’s using his personal FB page as his campaign page as well. It’s my guess that he doesn’t have a campaign manager, or at least a professional one.

    Note: Sorry if that doesn’t make much sense. I’ve been up for 21 hours now and that’s the best I can do.

  13. Bobbie says

    August 19, 2010 at 8:47 pm - August 19, 2010

    I understand what you’re saying.
    When I read his writing, I get that sorry feeling too.
    I hope you’re right about his comments being taken out of context.

  14. Eva Young says

    August 19, 2010 at 9:40 pm - August 19, 2010

    The Republican chairman reacted AFTER the statewide gay group in Iowa called on him to distance himself from these facebook comments.

  15. Bobbie says

    August 20, 2010 at 8:39 pm - August 20, 2010

    He may not have been aware of it until then.

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