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Mother Jones on Monday surfaced a Associated Press interview from 2002 with real estate developer Dean Young, who is vying for the Republican nomination in a runoff election Tuesday for Alabama's first congressional district, in which the candidate suggested gays must have moved to Alabama from other areas since they're not native to the state.
He said if gays "don't like the laws of Alabama then maybe they need to go back to California or Vermont or wherever they came from," as quoted by Mother Jones. Young was campaigning for Alabama secretary of state at the time.
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lostincalifornia
(3,639 posts)teabagger candidate is repudiated in this election.
RKP5637
(67,031 posts)QC
(26,371 posts)says this 100% gay native Alabamian.
whttevrr
(2,345 posts)But, he might not like it there either...
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-october-29-2013/last-gay-standing
karynnj
(59,474 posts)Arguing that they are not good born and bred Alabamans is another way of saying they are the "other", not "us".
Obviously, he has to know that Alabama families have produced gay children. I highly doubt this was just an unintentionally dumb statement. This is a sign of how inhospitable he wants Alabama to be to those kids. Sickeningly pathetic.
Gothmog
(143,999 posts)Aristus
(66,091 posts)Hell Hath No Fury
(16,327 posts)to the the LGBT of the country -- including those from good ol' Alabama -- who are thrown out and ostracized for the "sin" of being gay. We are their sanctuary, the place they can be who they are, where they can find the support and love they cannot get back home.
I was born and raised in SF, and the vast majority of LGBT people I have known over the years have been from somewhere else, most often the midwest and south.
You grown'em in AL, Young, we just give them the proper home they deserve here in CA.