I didn’t march in the Gay Pride parade this year. My opponent did. There is nothing to be proud of in being a dysfunctional homosexual. That’s not how God created us, and that’s not the example that we should be showing our children – and certainly not in our schools.
– Carl Paladino, GOP tea bagger candidate for governor of New York.
For those of you keeping score at home, that’s a smear of Paladino’s Democratic opponent Andrew Cuomo wrapped inside a layer of gay-bashing like a rotten hot dog wrapped in bacon made of sadness.
– Adrien Chen at Gawker.
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Paladino needs to sit his azz down and STFU. As a retired teacher who taught and loved gay and lesbian students along with the rest of the kids who passed through my classroom for 33 years, I find ignorant people like Paladino get on my last nerve. It makes me angry that they call themselves Christians while hating others they don’t understand/approve of.
They never stop to think that although there are others that differ from themselves, they’re just as human as they are, they have feelings, and they’re entitled to the same constitutional rights as they are. If it were left up to Paladino and the rest of the far right Christian nuts, there would be special zones where certain people would be forced to live, similar to the internment camps for Japanese Americans during WWII. The saddest thing is that none of these so-called Christians would object to having this happen. I would probably be assigned to one of these camps, not because I’m lesbian, but because I would stand against these fools for wanting to pull a stunt like this. Having spent the first 18 years of my life under segregation here, I never underestimate these kinds of people. They are the reason I changed from a yearly donation to the ACLU to a monthly donation. They’re also the reason I donate to Public Citizen and support the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (Mikey Weinstein,) PFLAG, and People For the American Way, along with any other organization that protects the rights of all citizens. I’m an unabashed liberal. Anyone on the right can attack me for my affiliations. I don’t care. I remember what it was like growing up African American in 1950s and 1960s America, and my plan is to make sure what happened to me doesn’t happen to any other American.