Oklahoma official defends comic linking gays to Satan

[meegbear]

A county commissioner who is running for re-election in Oklahoma City is defending the virulently anti-gay comic he sent to local Republicans by insisting that the "homosexual agenda" is an issue in the campaign.

In the comic, which Commissioner Brent Rinehart created along with a friend, a devil threatens a small child with a pitchfork, saying "If I can get the kids to believe homosexuality is normal!" while an angel yells, "Not with Brent around you won't!"

CNN's John Roberts spoke to Rinehart, who told him,"One person's mud-slinging , I guess, is another man's issues. ... I believe the homosexual agenda is an issue in this campaign. ... I thought that it was a very good campaign piece."

"Are you homophobic?" Roberts asked.

"I'm not even sure as to what 'homophobic' means," Rinehart replied, "but let's just keep in mind that we are in a cultural war."

Rinehart refused to acknowledge that his comic could be considered gay-bashing. He insisted, "We have an attorney general here in the state of Oklahoma that has used his office for political means, filed campaign charges against me, and it's based on my opposition to the homosexual agenda. ... The attorney general, Mr. Drew Edmondson, sued the Boy Scouts of America because they would not allow homosexual boy scout leaders as leaders."

Attorney General Edmondson appears in Rinehart's comic holding a sign saying, "Gay rights now!" A caption explains that "Drew Edmondson put Oklahoma on record to force the Boy Scots to accept homosexuals as scout leaders, a pedifile's (sic) dream come true."

"A drowning man tends to thrash about,” was Edmondson's only comment on Rinehart's comic.

"This is one of the strangest things I've ever seen," noted political science professor Keith Gaddie. "I've never seen a comic book with the phrase 'anal sodomy' in it before. ... He's pretty much grinding every ax he's got from his days in the county commission."

County Assessor Leonard Sullivan stated, "I've really encouraged him on more than one occasion to get professional help. He really needs it."

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http://rawstory.com//news/2008/Critics_Homophobic_cartoon_takes_campaigning_to_0721.html

[marmar]

1. What is up with Oklahoma elected officials? A rancid group if there ever was one.

n/t

[SacredCow]

2. "A cultural war"??????

Get out your Prada combat boots and pink chiffon flak vests!!!! :eyes:

Forget the unquestionably stupid and (yes, Brent) homophobic message of said comic book. Who lets such a poorly executed document, rife with spelling and grammatical errors go to publication to support a bid for public office?

Answer:

[Bob Dobbs]

3. Come out of the closet, Brent.

This dude is totally gay.

More rethuglican projection.

<http://www.heretical.com/sexsci/bpsychol.html>

[Zuiderelle]

4. Here we go again, he's stupid and bigoted and an asshole, so he must be gay.

:eyes:

[Fearless]

5. Must be.

:shrug:

[TlalocW]

6. Well, come on now...

I mean, if you had a chance to bet on the dude's sexuality, wouldn't the events of the last few years involving so many republicans being caught in sex scandals - often "gay" ones, lead you to think that the odds were at least even? :)

TlalocW

[Zuiderelle]

7. No.

[Bob Dobbs]

8. No, he protests too much,

so he must be gay.

It's not the gayness, it's the homophobic over reactive (self) hatred leading to support of anti-gay legislation that is the problem.

Really, did your gaydar not go off when looking at his picture in the OP?

[Zuiderelle]

11. No, he looks like an asshole. He doesn't look gay at all.

[gaspee]

12. I'm usually one

Who gets really pissed off when these assholes are called gay but this dude totally sets my gaydar off.

And really, I usually get pissed at the whole "call the anti-gay people gay" thing.

[SacredCow]

10. Yeah, that schtick is getting old....

I think that I speak for a great number of gay men (and women) when I say, "The straight and narrow world can KEEP Mr's Rinehart and Craig! We've got WAY more self-respect than THAT!"

[Siyahamba]

9. But does he defend his horrendous grammar and spelling?

[sui generis]

13. No problem. If it weren't for people like him

We wouldn't have as much public empathy for the shit we go through.

Maybe in some other time and place he would be worrisome. Here, even in Oklahoma, he's just another absurd slack jawed yokel obsessed with gays.

Betcha hunnert bucks he gets arrested trolling at an Oklahoma truckers rest stop or the airport before December. Then he'll wail and gnash teeth and pull his remaining too dark just-for-men medium brown hairs out, talk about how thuh evil drugs possessed him, tearfully beg everyone's forgiveness, shave his mustache to disguise himself, drop into rehab and disappear from the face of politics forever.


It really DOES happen all the time with these idiots.