North Carolina Republican Leader Compares Homosexuality To Fetishes And Disorders

[moonshaz]

The second-highest ranking Republican in the North Carolina House of Representatives believes that being gay is the same as pedophilia, prostitution, voyeurism, and other sexual disorders. Speaker Pro Tempore Paul “Skip” Stam made the claim in a hand-out printed on his office’s letterhead, claiming that “no one can define sexual orientation,”

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[ginger_maya]

[zinnia_rose]

Yawn, more of this trite bullshit. He could at least be somewhat original in his homophobia instead of dragging out the tired old "bestiality and polygamy and pedophilia, oh my!" lines.

Also, comparisons to pedophilia and bestiality always make me seriously side-eye the speaker because, aside from the obvious stupidity, it says disturbing things about their ideas about consent. Children and animals cannot consent. Adults, even if they happen to be (GASP!) the same gender or sex, can. It ain't rocket science.

[nicosian]

I half expect we'll see him in a year caught in a chicken suit being flogged by a dominatrix on video and claiming he had no idea how he got there or some other halfwit excuse.

Not that all these guys are closet cases of whatever they object to, but it seems like it. They spend an awful lot of time worrying about what other people get up to.

[mingemonster]

Rational arguments just don't work with these kinds of people, because their stupidity is entirely voluntary. They can turn off their understanding of the English language, psychology or sociology at will to keep their ideology intact.