Why Palado brought up issue of gays

Contents:

• CARL PALADO SAID KIDS ARE “BRAWASHED” TO THK GAY PEOPLE ARE EQUAL. HE’S NNG FOR CONGRS.
• PALADO AI HAD GAY OLD TIME
• WHY PALADO BROUGHT UP ISSUE OF GAYS
• PALADO HAT GAY PRI PARA'S HOT GUYS IN SPEEDOS
• UNREPENTANT, PALADO CALLS GAY PARAS ‘DISGTG’
• CARL PALADO: GAY PRI MARCH AND 'BRAWASHG' CHILDREN
• PALADO CALLS GAYS "DYSFUNCTNAL"

CARL PALADO SAID KIDS ARE “BRAWASHED” TO THK GAY PEOPLE ARE EQUAL. HE’S NNG FOR CONGRS.

(AP Photo) The Republin ndidate for New York ernor stood by his ments on homosexualy Monday but said that the most ntroversial le -- one that appeared only his prepared remarks -- was wrten by somebody else, possibly a Palado is unr fire for sayg at a Brooklyn synagogue Sunday that he don't want children "brawashed to thkg that homosexualy" is acceptable. But there was also a le, which Palado did not say, his prepared text that read: "There is nothg to be proud of beg a dysfunctnal homosexual. "But Palado ma several other ments about homosexualy, givg fodr to the mpaign of his Democratic opponent Andrew Cuomo.

PALADO AI HAD GAY OLD TIME

A Cuomo mpaign spokman, Josh Vlasto, said Palado's ments monstrate "a stunng homophobia and a glarg disregard for basic equaly.

""The ments, along wh other views he has poed, make clear that he is way out of the mastream and is unf to reprent New York, " Vlasto the synagogue event, Palado said he chose not to march this summer's gay pri para but his opponent did.

WHY PALADO BROUGHT UP ISSUE OF GAYS

"That's not how God created , " Palado said of beg gay, "and that's not the example that we should be showg our children. ""I don't want them to be brawashed to thkg that homosexualy is an equally valid and succsful optn, " he said. Palado, who oppos gay marriage, ma the ments jt hours after eight people were arraigned an attack on a gay man and two gay teens the Bronx on Oct.

Referencg the attacks, he told Fox News that the pot he was tryg to nvey was that "homosexuals suffer om a horrible discrimatn. "Palado told Fox News that he has "absolutely no rervatns whatsoever about homosexualy" and that members of his staff are gay. He said he would be willg to hire gay employe his admistratn if elected.

PALADO HAT GAY PRI PARA'S HOT GUYS IN SPEEDOS

Palado also suggted children should be shield om the kd of scen on display at gay pri paras. While nng for ernor 2010 agast Andrew Cuomo, Palado famoly claimed at an appearance wh Hasidic lears Brooklyn, “My children and your children would be much better off and much more succsful gettg married and raisg a fay, and I don’t want them brawashed to thkg that homosexualy is an equally valid and succsful optn— isn’t. ALBANY — Maybe ’s a good thg Carl Palado skipped the Gay Pri Para — his ai went, and got a real earful!

Stone showed no such hang-ups when he marched shirtls the para on behalf of his other advisee the ernor’s race — self-scribed “Manhattan Madam” Krist Davis, whose prott platform clus legalizatn of gay marriage, gamblg, prostutn and marijuana. “Yeah, I marched wh Krist Davis the Gay Pri Para. Stone, a gay-marriage advote, has mced no words about his displeasure wh the anti-gay remarks Palado ma Brooklyn Sunday to a group of ultra-Orthodox rabbis.

UNREPENTANT, PALADO CALLS GAY PARAS ‘DISGTG’

The Hasidic Brooklyn rabbi who hosted Palado as he ma the remarks whdrew his support for him the wake of the ndidate’s apology to gays on Tuday. Rabbi Yehuda Lev said Palado was “receivg prsure” om his fay — which clus a gay nephew — to soften his stance.

He had ltle to say about Stone marchg the Gay Pri Para.

CARL PALADO: GAY PRI MARCH AND 'BRAWASHG' CHILDREN

Palado had qutned Democratic rival Andrew Cuomo’s parentg skills for brgg his dghters to the annual gay-pri extravaganza. STORY HIGHLIGHTSJohn Avlon: Anti-gay remarks om New York gubernatorial ndidate Carl Palado no gaffeAvlon: Comments aimed at creatg partisan polarizatn, aka the polics of cementAvlon says the timg of Palado's remarks bad after recent anti-gay cintsAvlon: Polics of cement the new normal; polil disurse hijacked by extreme viewsEdor's note: John P.

" (CNN) -- Carl Palado's anti-gay statements at a Brooklyn synagogue Sunday didn't surprise me -- New York's GOP nomee for ernor is a gaffe mache nstantly on the verge of reeng out of ntrol. What surprised me was that his ments about gays were not a gaffe.

PALADO CALLS GAYS "DYSFUNCTNAL"

Palado's gay gamb worked, to some extent -- the next morng he was on every natnal work morng news program explag his ments and, amazgly, playg the victim rd. "And if Andrew Cuomo has a problem wh the Catholic Church's posn on abortn and homosexualy, he needs to take up wh his parish prit. Given that Ameri is the middle of a gay civil rights movement, this issue would seem to be a perfect nservative populist wedge issue.

When Palado said he didn't want children "brawashed to thkg that homosexualy is an equally valid and succsful optn -- isn't, " he was makg an appeal to tradnalist and social nservative voters. But he was dog a state where 58 percent of rints now support marriage equaly and durg a week when eight lol gang members had been arrted for gay bashg, and the wake of the suici of a gay Rutgers Universy stunt after he was harassed. At the same time, though -- the world of nservative activist polics this year -- Christe O'Donnell's mpaign alli directed an anti-gay whisper mpaign at Mike Castle, the married Delaware ngrsman, before the primary electn.

Jim DeMt, R-South Carola, an fluential lear of the Tea Party movement, was jt last week fendg his beliefs that gays and lbians shouldn't be allowed to teach public schools.