MONTANA GOP POLICY: MAKE HOMOSEXUALITY ILLEGAL

[Me.]

MONTANA GOP POLICY:
MAKE HOMOSEXUALITY ILLEGAL

“HELENA, Mont. — At a time when gays have been gaining victories across the country, the Republican Party in Montana still wants to make homosexuality illegal.

The party adopted an official platform in June that keeps a long-held position in support of making homosexual acts illegal, a policy adopted after the Montana Supreme Court struck down such laws in 1997.

The fact that it's still the official party policy more than 12 years later, despite a tidal shift in public attitudes since then and the party's own pledge of support for individual freedoms, has exasperated some GOP members.

"I looked at that and said, 'You've got to be kidding me,'" state Sen. John Brueggeman, R-Polson, said last week. "Should it get taken out? Absolutely. Does anybody think we should be arresting homosexual people? If you take that stand, you really probably shouldn't be in the Republican Party."…cont…

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/18/montana-gop-policy-make-h_n_722073.html

[eleny]

1. Meet our newest state - Irantana

[madmax]

2. Your little emoticon

guy says it all for me.

[eleny]

3. Well then...

[madmax]

8. lol

[Red Riding Hood]

4. I'm from Montana

and this does not jive with the people I know or the
prevailing attitudes. are there racists and homophobes in
Montana?  yes, for sure.  But this does not represent the
prevailing attitude of Montanans...

[TygrBright]

6. No, it doesn't. That's my experience of Montana, as well.

I'm not saying the state doesn't have its neanderthals-- doesn't every state? But their particular brand of folly tends more to the uber-libertarian "abolish government except maybe for the defense contracting wing" variety than the "peer-through-neighbors'-keyholes" variety.

agreeably,
Bright

[Me.]

7. Glad To Hear It

For the good people of Montana will have to be the first line of defense on this if these haters gain any traction.

[opihimoimoi]

5. Puritanical Fkrs and their Sex Squads....Wasteful and Cynical

Suppression is SO OLD

[Gman]

9. Sen. John Brueggeman just got himself tagged as a RINO!

They eat their own.

[sakabatou]

10. The GOP proudly marching backwards in time

[Curmudgeoness]

11. This is like trying to make masturbation illegal. Good luck.

But in the day and age, I can't believe that this is an issue. Or illegal.