GOP candidate: ‘Gays… were never banned from marrying… the opposite sex’

[TexasTowelie]

Remember Bo French? He’s the Texas House candidate running against Rep. Charlie Geren in Tarrant County. I went to school with his wife and many of her family members. After getting an alarming fundraising email, I wrote an essay urging him to not follow (or take money from) Cathie Adams and the like.

Well, so much for that.

Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling legalizing marriage equality nationwide, French wrote the following:

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After a commenter reminded him that, yes, the U.S. Constitution contains both the 10th Amendment protects states’ rights and the 14th Amendment guaranteeing equality and due process, I guess that was too much. French replied this way:



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[CurtEastPoint]

1. Man, I just Googled that Mr. French (snort). What a cro-magnon asshole.

States rights, guns, liberals, socialists, blah blah blah. Fuck him.

[Warpy]

3. Gawd, and he's running for office

and will probably be elected, it's in Texas and apparently most people there are learning real slow.

I do love the one picture of him with a woman I suppose is his wife and two very young children. They are both screaming, one imagines in terror.

[uppityperson]

2. And it used to be everyone had the same right to marry someone of the same skin color.

What an ass. Get over it, Bo.