Posted on 04/01/2015 12:23:57 PM PDT by MNDude
details have started to fade, but Seth Hutchinson, a son of Gov. Hutchinson of Arkansas, remembers the arrest in the 1990s of a teacher who was gay.
“He was not out,” Seth Hutchinson recounted on Wednesday. “And he was arrested in a park — I think the official charge was attempting to loiter — and it was obvious he was there because he couldn’t be out and keep his job.”
Mr. Hutchinson said the episode was a formative experience in the political journey that has frequently pitted him against his father.
Hutchinson surged into the spotlight on Wednesday when Governor Hutchinson said during a nationally televised news conference that his son had signed a petition urging him to veto a measure that proponents have labeled a religious freedom bill. Critics say the measure could allow individuals and businesses to discriminate against gay men and lesbians.
Mr. Hutchinson, 31, a union organizer has long differed with his father, a onetime Republican congressman who was elected governor last fall. Among Governor Hutchinson’s four children, Seth is a self-described political outcast.
“I love my dad, and we have a good, close relationship,” Mr. Hutchinson said. “But we disagree a lot on political issues. This is just another one, but a lot of families disagree politically. But we stay close.”
But starting when he was about 15 and working as a dishwasher at a diner in northwest Arkansas, Mr. Hutchinson’s views began to change as he shuffled through odd jobs, including stints at Chuck E. Cheese’s. He grew frustrated when he saw older workers enduring financial hardships while they worked long hours at low-paying jobs.
“It just showed me that there’s something wrong,” he said, adding that he became interested in gay rights about the same time, when friends began discussing their sexual orientations.
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Seth is obviously GAY!!!
And a child shall lead us.. and Walmarts
I’m watching Andrew Napolitano on Fox News. I used to think he was right about everything.
But like so many others, he failed to make the distinction between discrimination against a person and discrimination against an event which is still illegal in many states.
So gays are destroying public parks like they do here in Memphis. No hetero male would be caught dead in Overton park because of the homos
Looks strangely like Ronald Reagan’s butthead fag son.
Arkansas governor is a liar as he promised to sign the legislation.
The Republicans aside from Cruz are breaking out the white flags yet again everywhere. I am convinced they will never fight on any issue. They are beyond redemption and the Gaystopo rolls on...
Ronnie-Ron Reagan rides again!
He doesn’t see anything wrong witn a public school teacher soliciting sex in a park?
A park where I played as a child and where our Scout troop used to overnight is now completely taken over by gay solicitors/prostitutes which the small suburban police force apparently cannot police because of manpower concerns or because they will be accused of biased enforcement.
Again.
Gutless wonders with little interest or core values other than getting rich and re-elected.
/sarc
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