Tory MP Lukiwski apologizes for anti-gay remarks made on tape found by Sask NDP

[IntravenousDemilo]

Cross-posted at Canada forum.http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=190x24104


A Saskatchewan Conservative MP as well as the province's premier were quick to apologize Thursday after the release of a 16-year-old videotape that contained sexist, racist and homophobic comments.

"I just want to publicly say that I am truly, truly sorry. I'm ashamed for the comments," member of Parliament Tom Lukiwski said in Ottawa."If I could take those comments back, I would."

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"Let me put it to you this way - there's As and Bs," Lukiwski says on the tape. "The As are guys like me. The Bs are homosexual faggots with dirt in their fingernails that transmit diseases."

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Pat Atkinson, the Saskatchewan NDP's deputy house leader, said the tape appears to have been made during the 1991 provincial election campaign. Lukiwski was a Tory organizer at the time and Wall was a ministerial aide. Her party found the tape after moving into Opposition offices last fall following a loss to Wall's Saskatchewan Party.

More at: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/080403/national/sask...

[terrya]

1. Those comments are odious, to put it mildly.

Too bad it took him 17 years to apologize for them.

Apology or no, he should lose his seat over that kind of bigotry.

[IntravenousDemilo]

2. Hi, sweetie.

They just played the clips on the news. Eww...

shmily
:hug:

[terrya]

4. Hi, darling.

I haven't heard a politician down here use language like that since Dick Armey referred to Barney Frank as "Barney Fag". But, you know, Armey was SUCH a dick.

SHMILY

:hug:

[Toasterlad]

3. What's Been His Voting Record Since?

Let the record show how sorry he truly is.

[readmoreoften]

5. My goodness! Homosexual faggots!

I'm glad he differentiated from straight faggots. :crazy:

Whoa this guy's a piece of work, huh?