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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Ya mean Cruznadia?Lololol
You’ll pay for that. ;o)
Groveling to the coprophiles and lesbians. They deserve it.
Let us define homophobia for what it is: a word generated by perverts to tar those opposing their disgusting behavior. The males especially are the consummate animal abusers (ie consenting adult gerbils), the group who formed NAMBLA and B4UACT to abuse young boys, and the coprophiliacs. True homophobics are represented by the little boys raped by adult homosexuals—Sandusky’s dozen or so victims who stepped forward to convict this homosexual in a closet were clearly, “homophobic.” Other “homophobes” fear the disease vectoring by the loving gay community who pass their infectious agents in disgusting ways to other innocent “homophobes,” often young boys too. Hey, it is so gay.
[How Salt Lake City Became an Unlikely Gay Mecca]
http://www.takepart.com/article/2015/03/24/gay-mecca
http://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=salt+lake+city+homosexual+population
That Utah?
Uhuh. Well...
Dear Mr/Ms/Whatever Cox,
And the Affinity Fraudulent Ponzi-Turkey baster you and the rest of the Deseretian Reformed Eqyptian bee-hive dribbled out of.
Regards,
=HlPhat
If Christian “homophobia” is so toxic, how come Christians almost never attack homosexuals?
Disgusting capitulation.
Yep. They see it as currency, and will capitalize on it to the max, even if an apology is only "formal" and not sincere.
An apology used to result in forgiveness. Now, it results in demands.
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