Sheriff Removes Gay Hate Remarks From County Website

[davidinalameda]

http://www.365gay.com/newscon05/01/012605heriff.htm

Marshall County Sheriff Mac Holcomb under pressure from county officials has removed anti-gay remarks he posted on the official page of the Sheriff in the County's Web site.

The posting, a letter to his constituents, called homosexuality "an abomination."

The sheriff, reflecting on growing up in the 1940s and 1950s, wrote: "Men were men and women were women and there was no mistaking which was which ... Homosexuality was very queer and a despicable act ... an abomination."


now if he would only remove those beliefs from his heart--but of course he won't--he's still a homophobic prick

[cheezus]

1. ah, the 40s and 50s in Guntersville, Alabama

when whites were whites and blacks were blacks...

what a dumbfuck

[davidinalameda]

2. the whites were whites

and the blacks were "colored"

or pick an equally repulsive term

[northzax]

4. actually, read the text

from http://www.macholcomb.org/
the second paragraph: Every generation has its flaws. In this era, racism was one of them. Regrettably racism has not been completely eradicated in the South or the rest of the country.

so he may be a bigot and a homophobe, but he doesn't sound like he longs for the good old days of jim crow, to his credit.

[northzax]

3. I would actually like to see the full text of what he wrote

although I am tempted to believe that he is still a 'homophobic prick' as you put it, without the full text, in context, I don't want to jump to conclusions.

After all, I can honestly say that as a kid growing up in the early 80's, we mocked the less strong boys, calling them 'gay' and 'fags' and fully believed that homosexuality was different, strange, weird and just plain wrong. Of course we didn't know any better then, and times have changed to the point where I am ashamed of that behaviour. Of course we knew gay people, but they were just the 'arty' types, we never made the connection between them and the 'fags' we accused people of being. If I wrote that, and you took the first sentence, alone, out of context, it makes me look very bad, but include the next two, it makes it better, more a representation of a bygone place than my current feelings and ideals.

anyone have the complete text of his remarks? 365gay doesn't seem to have them.

on edit: ok, found them: http://www.macholcomb.org/ and yeah, he needs to remove some fetters from his mind.