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Capt. Obvious

(9,002 posts)
Tue Nov 5, 2013, 09:33 AM Nov 2013

Alabama GOP Special Election Candidate Told Gays To 'Go Back To California Or Vermont'

A Republican congressional candidate from Alabama with a history of combating homosexuality said on the campaign trail in 2002 that gays should return to California or Vermont or "wherever they came from."

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)
1. Alabama still producing candidates who flourish on racism, homophobia, and hate. I really hope the
Tue Nov 5, 2013, 09:37 AM
Nov 2013

teabagger candidate is repudiated in this election.

QC

(26,371 posts)
3. Dean Young needs to go back to Mississippi, which is where he's from,
Tue Nov 5, 2013, 11:02 AM
Nov 2013

says this 100% gay native Alabamian.

karynnj

(59,474 posts)
4. "Go back" implies that "they didn't come from here" or home grown
Tue Nov 5, 2013, 11:05 AM
Nov 2013

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.

 

Hell Hath No Fury

(16,327 posts)
8. California opens its arms -
Tue Nov 5, 2013, 04:39 PM
Nov 2013

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.

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