And I thought Republicans welcomed such comments — or so our critics tell us.
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.”
That comment is truly anti-gay and whether a Democrat or Republican said it, privately or publicly, its a twisted awful thing to say.
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.
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.
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.
Uggh.
He also says:
And:
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?
Which is why they’re kept in their little victim group, right?
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?
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.
I love the English language as practiced by people who are foreign to simple rules of construction. Check this out:
What is the rare occurrence? Is it someone in the GOP saying something disparaging?
Oh, I know Counterrail meant that someone
formfrom 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.
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!
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.
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.
The Republican chairman reacted AFTER the statewide gay group in Iowa called on him to distance himself from these facebook comments.
He may not have been aware of it until then.