Colorado please do something about this bigot.

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3755343
Colorado State Senator Scott Renfroe
" we create laws that go against what, biblically, we are supposed to stand for, I think we are agreeing , or allowing to go forward, a sin which should not be treated by government as something that is legal," he said. "And that is what we are going to do with this and we've done in the past is we are taking sins and making them to be legally OK. And that is wrong. That is an abomination according to scripture.

"And I'm not saying that this is the only sin that's out there. Obviously, we have murder...we have adultery, and we don't make laws making those legal, and we would never think to make murder legal. But what I'm saying that for is that all sin is equal. That sin there is as equal as any other sin that's in the Bible."

Among the verses quoted by Renfroe on the Senate floor were Leviticus 18:22 and Leviticus 20:13, which state that "man lying with man" is an abomination, punishable by death.

[vinylsolution]

1. Another one of Dobson's henchmen....

Shouting his mouth off to attract a bit of attention.

Gotta wonder what skeletons are lurking in his closet....

[hlthe2b]

2. He's a State Legislator (State Senate) representing Greeley area

which is a conservative stronghold....He's probably breathed in too much ammonia from the nearby cattle feedlots. :eyes:

[madamesilverspurs]

3. Renfroe is a posturing tool.

Not everyone in Greeley is impressed with the mayor who likes to intimidate and pound on people who have no way to stand up to him (namely, kids). Not everyone in Greeley is in love with the DA who is proud of the fact that the ACLU is taking him to task over his heavy-handedness with fishing through tax returns looking for possible crimes; certainly, not everyone in Greeley was in love with Marilyn Musgrave. And not everyone in Greeley agrees with Renfroe; many can't stand him. Here's my response to another post about him:


He was elected, in large part, because of rather large infusions of campaign cash from the land of the Dobsonites in the southern part of the state. The same "donor pool" has influenced other elections, and some of their tactics have been sufficiently shady to come under court scrutiny.

We're just down the road from where Matt Shepherd was murdered. Renfroe isn't at all concerned that his remarks could energize the kind of treacherous thinking that's just waiting for an excuse to act. But he should be concerned that we were able to take on Musgrave, she of the notorious "defense of marriage" inanity, and remove her from office. He has now guaranteed that his tenure will be similarly curtailed. And when that happens he will, of course, see himself as a victim of evil liberals, martyred in the cause of righteousness. In my circle of friends there are a great many truly righteous people of faith, and they are genuinely horrified by Renfroe. Sadly for all of us, Renfroe (and those like him) don't know the difference between righteousness and pompous posturing.

I have already written to him, pointing out that the same book of the Bible on which he bases his hate also requires that children who sass their parents be stoned to death; I asked him if we could expect equal scriptural thoroughness in the way he runs his family. Not that I expect a response, his attention has never been directed to to any but the rabid right among his constituents.

By the way, Renfroe also asserts (based on the Bible, of course) that women are only here to help men.

[madamesilverspurs]

4. From today's Greeley Tribune online

www.greeleytribune.com

Sen. Scott Renfroe is apologizing for comments he made at the state Capitol Monday when he said said homosexuality was a sin akin to murder.

Renfroe, R-Greeley, made his comments during debate on a bill that would extend health insurance benefits to same-sex partners of state workers. The full Democrat-controlled Senate passed the bill after Renfroe’s comments were made.

Renfroe said Monday during debate on the bill that homosexuality is a sin and that no one has ever suggested other sins such as murder should be made legal. Renfroe then said that all sin is equal.

“Homosexuality is seen as a violation of this natural creative order and is an offense to God the creator who created men and women, male and female for procreation,” Renfroe said.

Quoting Leviticus, a book in the Old Testament in the Bible, Renfroe said that homosexuals “shall surely be put to death, their bloodguiltness is upon them.”

Renfroe’s comments have made national headlines this week and have attracted the attention of such gay and lesbian groups as GLAAD.

Renfroe said in an interview before a committee meeting Wednesday afternoon that he was sorry if his comments offended anyone, but that he stood behind them.

“I apologize if my use of words did upset people, I guess,” said Renfroe, a member of Eaton’s Evangelical Free Church. “I probably could have been more eloquent.”

Renfroe also clarified his comments on homosexuality.

“It’s not any greater or any less (a sin than any other sin),” Renfroe said. “It’s equal on a plane that all sins are sin.”

Renfroe also said he doesn’t think the Old Testament verses he quoted that say homosexuals will “surely be put to death” should be followed by people.

“Obviously I don’t condone that and wouldn’t support that,” Renfroe said.

But, Renfroe said, the bill could clear the way for gay marriage, which voters struck down in 2006. Condoning homosexual behavior isn’t proper, he said.

“I don’t think that’s the proper role of government,” he said.

Bobby Clark, deputy director of ProgressNow Colorado, said Wednesday that Renfroe’s comments might make some people believe that violence against homosexuals is OK and is dangerous speech, especially coming from a public official.

Clark said Renfroe himself was probably committing other sins on the Senate floor Monday afternoon if he was wearing a cotton/polyester blend shirt amd that many farmers in northern Colorado are guilty of similar sins in Leviticus if they plant different crops side by side.

In Leviticus, “if you have had shrimp, you’ve committed an abomination,” said Clark, who is gay.

For more, including more reaction from area religious and secular leaders, read Thursday's Tribune.