Walsh Labels Gay Marriage A 'Socenomic Issue'
Contents:
- OPN: JOE WALSH GO FROM “GAY FRIENDLY” TO GAY-BAG REPUBLIN
- EX-REP. JOE WALSH TWEETS GAY SLUR, LISTS SLURS HE'D NEVER E
- JOE WALSH CALLS LGBT COMMUNY 'CONSTUTNAL TERRORISTS' AMID ARIZONA ANTI-GAY BILL PROTTS
- JOE WALSH: GAY MARRIAGE IS A 'SOCENOMIC ISSUE'
OPN: JOE WALSH GO FROM “GAY FRIENDLY” TO GAY-BAG REPUBLIN
In a 1996 terview wh a gay newspaper, Rep. Joe Walsh clared, “If there’s a more gay-iendly Republin around, I’d like to meet them.” This year,... * is joe walsh gay *
What’s not nsistent is Walsh’s claim that he’s an ally of the gay muny. Concerng gay issu, Walsh sisted he’s not only liberal, but out ont. “If there’s a more gay-iendly Republin around, I’d like to meet them, ” he said.
Walsh said he would support the Employment Non-Discrimatn Act, vote to elimate the ary ban on gay and lbian service personnel, enact domtic partnership benefs for same-sex upl and assume a learship role advotg for gay issu. In the fal weeks before the electn, Walsh tends to wheel his bike around some of the district’s ubiquo gay bars and prs some gay flh.
EX-REP. JOE WALSH TWEETS GAY SLUR, LISTS SLURS HE'D NEVER E
In the terveng -and-a-half, Walsh has pleted a transformatn om gay-flh-prsg liberal Republin to fire-and-brimstone Tea Party homophobe. Walsh received a 0 ratg om the Human Rights Campaign, a gay rights lobbyg group. Walsh also lled gay marriage a “socenomic” issue, sayg that male-female, two parents hoeholds produce children who do better school, stay away om dgs and are ls likely to be poor.
And I n’t say he was created as an opponent of gay rights, eher, bee he certaly didn’t start out that way.
“Anybody who n qualify to serve the ary — gay, straight or transgenr — should be able to serve, ” Walsh said. What about gay rights, same-sex marriage?
JOE WALSH CALLS LGBT COMMUNY 'CONSTUTNAL TERRORISTS' AMID ARIZONA ANTI-GAY BILL PROTTS
Gay rights, same-sex marriage, this is an admistratn that has taken steps to, many ways, crack down on and rce benefs for people who are — or jt allow some discrimatn agast people who happen to be gay. So we all accept to gay rights — and this admistratn has been very tough on transgenrs and gays servg the media — exce me — the ary. Absolutely, anybody who n qualify to serve the ary, gay, straight or transgenr, should be able to serve.
On Wednday, was a "joke" meant to draw on the dispary between the punishments meted out by the Oakland A's to outfielr Matt Joyce for g the gay slur to a fan, and by MLB to umpire Joe Wt for llg Adrian Beltre the league's "biggt plaer.
JOE WALSH: GAY MARRIAGE IS A 'SOCENOMIC ISSUE'
" and that Wt would unfairly have been more harshly punished if he had also ed the gay slur — was not shaken by the fact that Joyce served a shorter spensn (two days) than did Wt (three days). "If an umpire said (the gay slur) they'd be spend for a lot longer, " he said.