If Sarah Palin should “speak up” when her daughter uses an anti-gay slur, shouldn’t HRC speak up when gay Republican is beaten?
HRC called upon Sarah Palin to “speak up” about her teenage daughter’s use of anti-gay slur, but won’t speak out when a gay Republican is beaten and hospitalized in a politically motivated attack.
The man who attacked “Kyle Wood, a full-time volunteer working for GOP House candidate Chad Lee” in Wisconsin said he had “warned” the young man. Wood believes . . .
. . . his attacker’s reference to a warning likely pointed to graffiti he found painted on his car last week. The vandalism included the phrases “house trained republican faggot,” “traitor,” and “ur like a jew 4 hitler.”
Those slurs, he explained, were references to him being a gay Republican working to help Lee, a straight GOP candidate, defeat the openly gay Democrat Mark Pocan.
The man used the same slur Sarah Palin’s daughter had used, but, unlike the Republican teen, followed it up with a brutal attack.
Yet, HRC called upon a woman who never uttered the slur to “speak up,” but won’t speak up when a vandal uses the term against a gay Republican, then proceeds to beat him.
NB: Had previously blogged on the matter here.
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HRC will say nothing because a gay conservative being attacked for his beliefs doesn’t fit the HRC narrative that conservatives want to oppress gays.
I hope this young man recovers quickly but it would be nice to see an HRC that gives a damn about gay conservatives.
Comment by Just Me — October 26, 2012 @ 9:25 am - October 26, 2012
He’s not a real gay, he doesn’t tow the party line. He deserved what he got. Go Oh-bama, that is really all that matters.
Comment by Leah — October 26, 2012 @ 12:31 pm - October 26, 2012
This is the first time I’ve heard of this. I hope the young man recovers.
Comment by Seane-Anna — October 26, 2012 @ 7:12 pm - October 26, 2012
The HRC is probably unhappy that the gay conservative wasn’t killed. That would eliminate another GOP member from their list of nobodies.
Comment by davinci — October 26, 2012 @ 11:43 pm - October 26, 2012