Christine O'Donnell Has A Long Sordid History Of Demonizing LGBT People

[WillParkinson]

Christine O'Donnell Has A Long Sordid History Of Demonizing LGBT People

Wade Richards, a former member of Christine O'Donnell's "ex-gay" group who has since come to terms with his sexuality, tells all in a report published today by the Daily Beast. According to Richards, O'Donnell has a lesbian sister, whom he credits with helping him accept himself. The article lists some of O'Donnell's track record in her long campaign to demonize LGBT people.

Toward the end of the Clinton administration, she protested the appointment of James Hormel to be ambassador to Luxembourg, a posting the religious right opposed because Hormel was gay. “The SALT was concerned about Hormel’s ties to the pedophile-rights movement,” her website said, though there was not a shred of evidence behind the slur. In 1997, in a clip recently unearthed by Talking Points Memo, she appeared on C-SPAN, where, looking fresh, lovely, and innocent, she objected to AIDS sufferers being called “victims” because the disease is the product of their own actions. In an appearance on Fox in 2000, she exclaimed over the horrors of New York’s gay pride parade: “They’re getting away with nudity! They’re getting away with lasciviousness! They’re getting away with perversion!”

After working with O'Donnell's group, Richards went to work for Peter LaBarbera, going undercover at International Mister Leather.

Richards was unnerved when he went into Americans for Truth About Homosexuality’s “media room” and found copious hard-core porn—for research, naturally—as well as leather bondage gear for undercover work. “The sad thing was, there’s that 80-year-old grandma in Wichita, Kansas, thinking she’s donating this money to a good cause, and it’s going to who knows what kind of ‘research,’” says Richards. “As someone struggling with same-sex attraction, I thought, this is really not a place I need to be hanging out in.”

Richards eventually became an ex-ex-gay after reaching out to Wayne Besen at Truth Wins Out. Read the entire story at the Daily Beast.

http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2010/09/christine-odonnell-has-long-sordid.html

[OHdem10]

1. Candidates like O'Donnell, Angle, Paul, Buck, Miller actually

represent the Republican Philosophy accurately but
they express it in "raw", so to speak. The GOP
may cringe--Rove and Company. They prefer to kee<[br />Americans in the dark by being more sophisticated.
---We want small government. This sounds good and
can fool Americans. Teabaggers are laying the plans
out concretely. Instead of throwing the spitballs
at individual candidates, why are Democrats explaining
these candidates arerepresenting the GOP Plans.

For example, Paul Ryan does his
Road Map. Never is there any mention of
privatizing Social Security.

The Dems must convince America that when GOP says Small
Government, they mean just that. They do not believe
the Government should have responisiblity for programs
like Health Care, SS Medicare.

Until we fight at a philosophical level, the GOP wins.

[jeremyfive]

2. Never Made a Dime But. . .

Lawsy, Christine has hit the jackpot now--she has discovered that big cash cow, political spending and taxpayer "free money".

No turning back for Christine. Just like Palin, she's got gold bars in her eyes. No more mortgage foreclosures for Christine! The taxpayers will pay.

Hear her statements on Jews? Does anyone else have the troubling mental image of Christine O'Donnell pointing to a wasted young Anne Frank in the corner and shouting to the Nazis, "She's here! She's here!"

Call me biased, but as a gay man, I don't think Christine O'Donnell should exist. Maybe we can legislate her out of existence. (Turnabout is fair play.)