"Gay Republican senator fights challenger for seat"

[Rowdyboy]

BRAINERD, Minn. — To understand the challenge facing Sen. Paul Koering, a gay Republican battling to keep his seat against a conservative primary challenger, it helps to listen to Joan Campbell, a retiree and a Republican voter.

“I don’t like what they do with their lives,” Campbell said of gay people. “It’s wrong, according to my Bible.”

Campbell, mind you, supports Koering.

Many Republicans in this socially conservative heart of central Minnesota take an even harder line against homosexuality, and Koering knows he is testing the outer limits of the GOP’s big tent.

“I think there’s going to be a lot of people watching to see if the voters can look at my record and say, ‘He’s doing a good job’” said Koering, who reluctantly came out last year amid a heated fight over gay marriage at the Capitol. “Or, will they look at my personal life and say, ‘I can’t support him because of that.’ If that’s how they’re going to vote, I may be out of a job.”

http://www.dallasvoice.com/artman/publish/article_3265.php

[Divine Discontent]

1. good grief if he isn't ever the

confused gay man!

[Rowdyboy]

2. This guy is so twisted its amazing.....

How do you justify that much self-hatred?

[xchrom]

3. he exemplifies the past --

what many had to do to survive -- and not understanding at all the sixties and stonewall.

there are people who almost physically reject modernity and rationality in a contemporary context.

i loathe people like this on the one hand -- they give me the creeps -- and i pity them on the other.