But after doing a post mortem on his party, he has figured out what was wrong and even more bigotry:
is doing his best to rebrand his party which apparently means
The Detroit Free Press reports, “Agema’s posting Wednesday, during U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments regarding the legality of same-sex marriage, was based on an online article titled, “Everyone Should Know These Statistics on Homosexuals,” which appeared under the byline Frank Joseph, M.D.Even as more and more Americans are open to same sex marriages, leave it to the Republicans to continue to drag their feet and their knuckles.
The post depicts gays as sexually promiscuous, rife with sexually transmitted diseases and responsible for “half the murders in large cities.” (my bold)
A group of state Republicans are now calling for Agema’s resignation over his offensive post.
Dennis Lennox, a Grand Traverse County Republican precinct delegate and former county drain commissioner, issued a statement Wednesday joined with signatures by 20 other Republicans condemning Agema’s “deplorable actions”
The statement reads, “This isn’t about what we believe either politically or as women and men of faith. This is about common decency and realizing that you cannot win an election by insulting a wide swath of the electorate, whose votes our Republican Party needs to once again form a national majority.”
But, what’s troubling is that Republicans are more concerned with gaining votes than simply doing the right thing. Still yet, I’m glad he was called out.
In a statement e-mailed to the Free Press this morning, Agema said he posted something someone else had written and “some publications and even a few liberal Republicans have chosen to take the words of someone else and cast them as my own.
Agema said, “I think it was a piece worth sharing given the debate over gay marriage that is happening in the Supreme Court.”
“I strongly maintain my position in support of marriage between a man and a woman and I will not back down from my core beliefs in support of strengthening the family.”
During the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) panel “Trump the Race Card: Are You Sick and Tired of Being Called a Racist and You Know You’re Not One?”, a white male claimed “my people, my demographic are being systematically disenfranchised” and that slaves should be thankful they were given food and shelter. The audience approved.
ReplyDeleteHere was an opportunity for Reince Priebus to condemn his racist peeps. Instead he responded that the Republican message was not properly phrased to reach minorities. For some reason minorities did not understand the goodwill of Republicans when they passed laws to disenfranchise voters and to punish immigrants.