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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Fair enough, I have no ax to grind with you...
Be very careful of the agent of what you call truth. The devil will use it to hurt you by driving you into some different folly. If it’s mobbing you to hurt you, that is not God’s voice. That’s the devil doing his intimidation act on you.
When do cake makers get their apology?
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When does God get an apology? When does this country start repenting? We are in trouble and few realize the seriousness of our nation’s “evil ways”. God promises a turnaround if only we would.
Where was the customary Barf Alert?
His middle name is Swallow.
Cry me a river! There isn’t time to do apologies.. just get the terrorists out of here. SOMEONE, SOMEWHERE in leadership needs to care enough to tell it like it is.. it’s important..
Oh yea... Trump is telling it like it is... and they are blasting him.
If enough of them would get some sense and hit this crap hard... it just might make a dent! Trump stands alone up there telling the truth and they are so far from truth, it hurts them to hear it.
Hey Cox, you d*ckhead, they were not targeted because they were gay. The terrorist was gay himself. The reason they were targeted was because that was a club that the gay terrorist frequented. He knew that that was a place where there would be a large group of people. If the terrorist were an avid fisherman and he frequented a club that catered to fisherman, he would have attacked that club. Would you Cox, then be out saying :
I'm here because those 49 people were fisherman. I'm here because it shouldn't matter. But I'm here because it does."
If the dumb bastard needs to apologize to someone, he should be apologizing to the millions of American gun owners who are being blamed for the Islamoterrorist attack by the Nazi DemocRAT Party.
This guy should do a big news conference, get up there and break down, shed some tears and tell us how bad we all have been to the homosexuals and then run for governor. Gezez, what a press parasite this guy is. He’s all about “Look at me, look at me”!!
Maybe Hatch could give lessons, pandering bastards.
(So the gays now like Cox?)
I think they always did!
Apologizing for something you are not responsible is stupid.
And with liberals, it gives them ammo to continue to tear you down.
In this case, a Christian apologizing for a Muslim shooting people per the Koranic mandate to kill homosexuals is immoral, because it feeds into the evil narrative that Christians who want to be able to refuse to make a wedding cake they find blasphemous are equal to Muslims killing the same homosexuals.
He just gave them more support for the view Christians who want to be able to live out their views without interference are just eager to kill homosexuals like Muslims.
He is a moron.
Mormons have been damned by God.
****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.****
For some real fun, tell a gay person that their lifestyle is being promoted by the aliens that want to occupy this planet so they can make everyone gay to have complete control over future population through artificial means.
Moron.
>> he regretted not standing up for gay people in his youth
Regardless of my objections to homosexuality, I defended homosexual colleagues and acquaintances from unprovoked harassment. Ironically, the same folks would tell the girls that I didn’t much care for their company despite never commenting on their behavior. Whatever.
Well, Cox was a dick then, and still one now.
And why is this massacre a homo issue? It’s a Constitutional issue!
Islam is a war plan.
Was he on his knees when he apologized?
‘He regretted not standing up for gay people in his youth.’
Who fed him these stupid lines? Is he being used to preach to the local Mormon kids in Utah? Gays are just screwed up people who lack protective fathers to beat up their predators.
Homosexuality was a German Marxist (godless) construct (homosexuality was the Spartans and Samurai “lifestyle” (Man/Boy “Love” ) and today’s muslim culture is the same pederastic irrational, evil ethics as the Spartan one. (Christians created the most brilliant, just system of Ethics in the history of man-—but Virtue has to be destroyed in Just Law so the psychopathic, sodomite elites can destroy moral formation in our children-—to collapse Western Civ they have to remove the Christian Worldview in the masses-—collapse Virtue formation in children.
All behaviors, like sodomy, is learned bahavior/lifestyles which existed since the beginning of time and it always includes grooming (and usually raping) boys. It is a vile, irrational, filthy lifestyle—always satanic and demonic (to mock God of the Bible and equate Life to Excrement, and erase Design of the human body (Reason and Logic in children) and to destroy male/female Christian paradigm, (”Kill God” atheist 1800’s group which wanted to destroy Christianity and Western Civilization for NWO—has to destroy Virtue in children and normal sexual identity formation in the children—to warp them and make them have evil, unnatural desires and worldview (Common Core/masturbation taught in 3rd grade).
Freemasons (secret societies) regularly raped their apprentices, even when Christianity was the “norm” and homosexuality was “evil” (which it still is—a warped,, unnatural, vice which warps ALL of a person’s Worldview). Parents gave up their children to be trained away form home (protection of fathers/mothers). That is what the John Dewey (communists/Humanist) created the mandatory “education” system for—to remove children from their Natural Family so they could be abused and warped in artificial systems of indoctrination-—to get it like in England-—boarding schools for young boys to be “socialized”, so the “masters” could abuse them in vile, inhumane ways (to destroy Christianity and create class (elite) system of control/domination.
The use of the word “homosexuality” and equating Christian symbols to sex acts was to warp little children and hyper-sexualize them, which will destroy sexual idenitity formation and destroy Virtue (Without Virtue, there can be no Freedom—Vice is slavery). Sexualized children can not be rational on the level of the Founding Fathers-—they will be controlled by emotions and addicted to vice. Virtue is Excellence and Wisdom and Courage and Temperance and civil society can never exist if the majority of people have no Virtue.
The desire to sodomize others is a sick, unnatural, warped “desire” (never “Love”) which is caused by child abuse and neglect (abandonment). Children are easily warped and the creation of “homosexuality” was to posit the idea into young children-—to normalize the behavior. (All behaviors are learned and modeled and when Just Law promotes Vice—you get more Vice. That is why it is unconstitutional to promote Vice in a Just Law (Justice is the Queen of Virtue and all “Just Law” which is the only Constitutional kind. Justice has to promote Virtue ONLY-—never sodomizing others like in islam where sodomy is fine, even with babies, toddlers.
He’s a fool; an utter, slack-jawed fool.
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