Congressman Denies Making Controversial Comments About Gays, Forgets The Entire Thing Is On Tape

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Rep. Robert Pittenger (R-NC) is now claiming that he did not make comments supporting anti-LGBT employment discrimination, as reported by ThinkProgress earlier this month.

At a town hall event in Ballantyne, North Carolina, ThinkProgress asked Pittenger: “Do you think businesses should be able to fire someone because they are gay or lesbian?” He replied that businesses should have the “autonomy” to fire workers for being LGBT, and asked rhetorically: “Why should government be there to impose on the freedoms we enjoy?”

The Charlotte Observer picked up the story, and reported that when they called Pittenger to confirm the quotes, the congressman “stood by his comments.”

But after local and national human rights groups began organizing around the comments and protesting at Pittenger’s office in Charlotte, he stood by them no longer.

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http://thinkprogress.org/election/2014/09/26/3572571/audio-pittenger-compares-firing-lgbt-workers-to-smoking-bans-then-denies-it/

[hobbit709]

1. They keep thinking they're back in the mid-19th century before there were recording devices.

[Omaha Steve]

2. K&R!

Beat me to the post.