Steve King (R-IA): "Homosexual activist lobby" is "taking it out on the rest of society"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Rep Steve King (R-Iowa) told Family Research Council's Tony Perkins that the Employment Non-Discrimination Act would allow gays to harass employers.

The Republican congressman argued that the Act is not necessary if gays and transvestites would just appear straight.

At the Iowa Independent, Jason Hancock notes, King "told a story about his days in the Iowa Senate, when gay activists came to lobby a fellow Republican lawmaker, state Sen. Jerry Behn of Boone, for protected status for sexual orientation and gender identity."

He said, “Let me ask you a question. Am I heterosexual or homosexual?” And they looked him up and down — and actually they should have known — but they said “We don’t know.” And he said “Exactly my point. If you don’t project it, if you don’t advertise it, how would anyone know to discriminate against you?” And that’s at the basis of this.

If people wear their sexuality on their sleeve, then they want to bring litigation against someone that they would point their finger at and say “you discriminate,” it is an entrapment that is legalized by the ENDA Act, it appears to, and its a violation of the individual rights of employers to, at their own discretion, decide who they want to hire and who they want to fire. We don’t need more federal mandates. And we surely don’t need a political statement, and that’s what this is, too. This is the homosexual activist lobby taking it out on the rest of society. They are demanding affirmation for their lifestyle. That’s at the bottom of this.

http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0512/king-discriminate-gays-act-gay/