Michigan GOPer compares gays to alcoholics

[Landslide Lyndon]

Another moderate.

http://www.mlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/04/republican_dave_agema_compares.html

Michigan Republican National Committeeman Dave Agema continues to defend his decision to share an article warning parents about the "filthy lifestyle" of homosexuals, saying this week that Christians should help people "get out of it."

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"What I'd like to have the homosexual community know is I don't hate them," he said. "As a matter of fact when Jesus caught a woman in the act of adultery when they brought her to him he said I don't condemn you but go and sin no more. That ought to be the church's goal here. We ought to be saying to these people, 'Hey, we don't agree with your lifestyle and we'll help you get out of it, but we want you to know the facts of what's going to happen to you if you stay in this lifestyle.'"

[Holmes]

He's not being hateful, he's just saying his opinion.

[Old Man Svensson]

It's sad that I've become so used to statements like these.

[minionofmidas]

It's sad that I've become so used to statements like these.

You think you'd have heard fewer of them anytime earlier?

Only in the sense that they'd not been considered reportworthy.

[Oldiesfreak1854]

I want him to resign.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Agema is a nut... but he's here to stay.

[bedstuy]

He's not being hateful, he's just saying his opinion.

Those are not mutually exclusive.  In this case, his opinion is a hateful opinion. 

[This user has not been convicted of 34 felonies]

Oh my God seriously people like this need to take a long walk off a short pier