Homophobic remarks cost Buttars chairmanship (X-Post from LBN)

[WillParkinson]

Homophobic remarks cost Buttars chairmanship

Source: 365gay.com and Associated Press

(Salt Lake City, Utah) A Utah state senator has been kicked off the judicial committee he chaired after he drew criticism for comparing gay activists to radical Muslims in an interview.


Sen. Chris Buttars, R-West Jordan, also told former local television reporter Reed Cowan, an openly gay documentary producer who now works at a Miami station, that gay activists are “probably the greatest threat to America going down.”

The comments drew calls for Buttars’ resignation in Utah and elsewhere. The Washington, D.C.-based Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender civil rights organization, said that by Friday more than 15,000 e-mails had been sent to Utah Senate President Michael Waddoups, R-Taylorsville, demanding that he condemn Buttars’ remarks.

Waddoups did not condemn Buttars’ statements and said he kicked Buttars off the committee primarily as a way to draw attention away from him. In a brief news conference Friday, Waddoups declined to say what comments - if any - Buttars made that he and other Republicans disagreed with.



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[MineralMan]

1. Buh-bye, Buttarse!

[bluedawg12]

2. It's costing this hateful bigots their own humanity, too.

Like Sean Penn said, someday their grandkids will wonder what was wrong with them.