Homosexuality is "Killing People 2 to 3 Times the Rate of Smoking" Says Missouri Republican

[proud2BlibKansan]

The following ad recently ran in The Daily American Republican of Poplar Bluff in support of the "Don't Say Gay" bill:



As the late Christopher Hitchens might say, "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."

This ad is full of the former and bereft of the latter.

According to Fired Up! Missouri, the guy who ran it -- Hardy Billington -- is "a Baptist Deacon and state committeeman of the 25th Senatorial District as well as committeeman for the Butler County Republican Party."

more . . . http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/dailyrft/2012/05/hardy_billington_dont_say_gay_support_ad.php

[NYC_SKP]

1. Teh Crazy is Strong Here. nt

[Initech]

8. Crazy is an understatement. Bat shit insane is more like it.

[DearAbby]

2. WOW

It's Amazing we have any left....Hey y'all better check in so we know you're okay.

[ck4829]

3. 10-30 years? God, they're not even trying to be 'scientific' about it anymore

I want to scream after seeing this and I'm not even gay.

[Mister Ed]

12. I wonder if there's a grain of truth to it.

10 to 30 years seems wayyyyyy too high, but I don't doubt that the stress of trying to cope with this pervasive hatred and homophobia can be harmful to the health of a gay person. I've read of studies citing the toll that racism can take on the health and lifespan of African-Americans.

[The Magistrate]

17. If Recollection Serves, Sir

This is a claim loosely based on a survey of persons who sought services at a free clinic catering to homosexual men in San Francisco in the early days of the AIDS epidemic. Outcomes were not particularly good, and since then persons of malicious intent have pretended this represented a proper random scientific sample of all homosexuals.

[Politicalboi]

4. They're treating this like

Birth control.

"We are encouraging and affirming individuals into the "gay" lifestyle". If you give the kids birth control, you condone them having sex.

[jberryhill]

9. That's it! Teach them birth control to prevent them being gay!

You've stumbled into the solution to all their problems.

Obviously, since teaching contraception makes them want to have heterosexual sex then, boom, that will counteract the gay recruitment agenda.

[marmar]

5. He better hope stupidity isn't fatal.

nt

[DirkGently]

6. Beat me to it.

[Archae]

7. Hardy Billington gets caught with a gay hooker in 3-2-1...

[proud2BlibKansan]

10. Bingo!

[Mister Ed]

16. caution, please

It's something we see over and over again on DU. News is posted of someone doing something stupid, hateful, evil, or all of the above, and some of us jump to the conclusion that the person must be a self-hating, closeted gay. The effect of those words on readers may run counter to the poster's good intentions.

[proud2BlibKansan]

20. Homophobic Attitudes Likely To Be Stronger Among Those Who Have Repressed Same-Sex Attraction:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/09/homophobia-people-same-sex-attraction-study_n_1412306.html

[hifiguy]

11. It truly amazes me that people this obviously

and totally disconnected from anything remotely passing for reality are allowed to run loose. Saner people are found yelling at trees.

[xmas74]

13. How could you possibly be surprised by that part of the state?

Nothing that happens there surprises me.

Did you hear that they officially had the ceremony placing Rush's bust in the state Capitol today? Not only that, but they only gave the media a 20 minute notice and refused admission to the public?

[proud2BlibKansan]

21. I'm lobbying for Bob Berdella

He'd be a perfect neighbor for Rush in the hall of fame.

[xmas74]

22. The perfect statement piece.

End to end psychopaths.

[cr8tvlde]

14. Another uncounted statistic is the young, gay (mostly) men who end their lives Heavy of heart. n/t

[and-justice-for-all]

15. what a lying fucking idiot. nt

[Mister Ed]

18. When my great-grandma was young, childbirth was the number one killer...

...of women 15 to 45. Had the good Deacon Billington lived in those times, I wonder if he would have screamed that "the heterosexual lifestyle is killing people!", and suggested that those who really love and care for heterosexuals should try to steer them away from that lifestyle.

[Aerows]

19. Um, yeah

Tell that to 80 year old lesbians and gay men. This kind of crap is so toxic, I don't even know what to say.

And I also agree with the sentiment that Hardy Billington gets caught with gay hooker in the next couple of weeks.

[loyalsister]

23. I think there is a huge backlash

after one of their own (Zach Wyatt) came out. Let them get as ridiculous as they please. It can only help Dems.

[arely staircase]

24. Hardy Billington-Crazy Blue Protesting Lady 2012! nt

[treestar]

25. How are these deaths occurring, exactly?

Smoking I can understand - the build up of tar in the lungs. Are they referring to AIDS?

[kenny blankenship]

26. Probably we should kill more people

it might get us a little respect.

[Ex-Pat Pats Fan]

27. Shit like THIS is why I get laughed at over here!