Posted on 06/18/2016 7:45:42 PM PDT by Pinkbell
Washington (CNN)Utah's second-highest-ranking public official says the Orlando massacre has prompted him to apologize to the LGBT community for his role in perpetuating homophobia.
"As I've gotten to know more people from the LGBT community, their love, their kindness, their patience with me -- it's amazing when you try to reach out and get to know and love someone who is different than you -- you find out remarkably that we're really not that different," Utah Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox told CNN's Don Lemon Friday.
Cox apologized at a vigil Monday in Salt Lake City a day after Omar Mateen killed 49 people in a gay nightclub in Orlando. A video of the speech has gone viral.
"I'm here because yesterday morning, 49 Americans were brutally murdered," Cox said Monday. "I'm here because those 49 people were gay. I'm here because it shouldn't matter. But I'm here because it does."
The Republican told CNN that he regretted not standing up for gay people in his youth.
"I didn't know they were gay, I just knew they were different," he said. "Sometimes I would make jokes, say things that weren't appropriate -- not necessarily to them, but about them, on occasion. I certainly didn't go out of my way to be friends with them. Those are the things I regret the most."
Lemon asked Cox what he would say to Republicans when it comes to LGBT matters, because, as he put it, "Republicans do not have a good track record when it comes to supporting gay issues."
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And so the meme goes. These are the People You Never Ever Dare To Make Fun Of.
So the gays now like Cox?
At least his parents didn’t name him Seymour.
When do cake makers get their apology?
That would spoil The Narrative!
Does anyone know what is in the water in Utah?
“Homophobia, ” a manufactured politically correct word endorsed by the homosexual community to shame you into your “obvious” hatred toward the homosexual lifestyle, all intended to divert attention to their immoral lifestyle. The one question that is never asked, nor is allowed to be asked is: “ is homosexuality moral?” If yes, why? If not, why? If homosexuality is so “prideful” and so “gay” and wonderful as these individuals would have us believe, taken to its logical consequence, if everyone was homosexual, the human race would end in one generation.
In an earlier age where families were considered a paramount thing, everybody recognized the situation as a major inconvenience, if not an outright plague.
Our modern thinkers have got us ashamed of even being ON the earth.
And I suppose, to be droll, we could have everyone being a son or daughter of a turkey baster.
But this ultimately is a love problem. As the songwriter said to Alfie, without true love we just exist.
I tend to feel sorry for them. As wicked as what they embrace is, this is not the only possibility left for their lives.
>>>So the gays now like Cox?<<<
I see what you did there. #;^)
The answer to your question, Gays yes, Lesbians no.
Beautiful, you worded how I feel perfectly. I’ve saved your post.
No, it does not get violent every time. However UNREALITY will get violent.
What a grandstanding moron this guy is.
Which halfway misses the point that God would have us know.
You know what I meant. To those who refuse to accept the truth, they linger until they have to deal with it, then it slaps them in the face saying: “that was so obvious, what took you so long?”
Pandering ahole. Running for office.
No, it comes with a still small voice — you OUGHT to know what I meant, but you refuse.
The onslaught of Satan, however, does not come that way.
Satan will tell you loudly that you’re wrong and there ain’t nothin’ to do about it but stand on your pride (just like he would like to give you cancer to cure your chilblains).
God will tell you humbly through His Son “here’s the way to be right, and look My power worketh right now in you if you accept.”
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