Opn: Joe Walsh Go From “Gay Friendly” to Gay-Bag Republin – NBC Chigo

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• 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

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.

EX-REP. JOE WALSH TWEETS GAY SLUR, LISTS SLURS HE'D NEVER E

“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.

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.

JOE WALSH CALLS LGBT COMMUNY 'CONSTUTNAL TERRORISTS' AMID ARIZONA ANTI-GAY BILL PROTTS

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?

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.

JOE WALSH: GAY MARRIAGE IS A 'SOCENOMIC ISSUE'

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. " 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.

Skip to Ma ContentAmid wispread backlash agast the Arizona anti-gay bill that was ultimately vetoed by Arizona Gov. " His tweets on the issue started up aga Wednday night, after Brewer's sayg she vetoed an "anti-gay bill.

#tt— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) Febary 27, 2014Of urse, Walsh wasn't the only nservative displeased by Brewer's veto of the ntent You GoOutrageo Homophobic StatementsPopular the CommunyYou May Like. ), who is nng agast Democratic challenger Tammy Duckworth Illois, nsirs gay marriage to be a "socenomic issue, " acrdg to the Chigo argu that "male-female, two-parent hoeholds" produce children who do better school, stay away om dgs and are ls likely to be has downplayed the issue of gay marriage the past. After North Carola voters adopted a nstutnal ban on same-sex marriage and put the issue the natnal spotlight May, Walsh bshed off a qutn about gay marriage a bate agast Duckworth, sayg "is not the most important issue this mpaign.