{"id":3140,"date":"2010-10-18T01:50:37","date_gmt":"2010-10-18T08:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3140"},"modified":"2010-10-18T01:50:37","modified_gmt":"2010-10-18T08:50:37","slug":"pass-on-the-buck-dont-elect-this-hater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/10\/18\/pass-on-the-buck-dont-elect-this-hater\/","title":{"rendered":"Pass on the Buck: Don’t Elect This Hater!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Watching Republican candidates this year, we have become accustomed to a wide variety of outrageous expression, running the gamut from inane to insane.  But even within this set of misfits, this man is just vile.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"18ken-Buck\" On Sunday’s "Meet the Press,"<\/a> Tea Party darling and Colorado Republican Senate candidate Ken Buck made the outrageous claims that being gay was "a lifestyle choice" and that a case of rape was nothing more than "buyer’s remorse."<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n

When asked by "Meet the Press" moderator David Gregory, Buck said he believed that being gay was a lifestyle choice; asked whether sexual orientation is determined at birth, Mr. Buck replied: \u201cI think birth has an influence on it like alcoholism and other things, but I think that basically you have a choice.\u201d<\/p>\n

Adding insult to injury, Buck also expressed no regrets about his four-year-old characterization of an alleged rape as "buyer’s remorse." <\/p>\n

Insisting that being gay is a \u201clifestyle choice,\u201d simply disqualifies Buck from public office. Buck’s insensitivity towards rape victims only adds fuel to the fire, and speaks volumes against Buck serving the state in any capacity\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Portland Examiner<\/a>><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

That gayness is a lifestyle choice is a standard Republican lie.  The proof that sexual orientation is innate is rock solid, so that is just run of the mill Republican hate.  But the definition of rape as buyer\u2019s remorse, and his refusal to recant on that statement, is so far beyond the pale that he is not fit for human association.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Watching Republican candidates this year, we have become accustomed to a wide variety of outrageous expression, running the gamut from inane to insane.  But even within this set of misfits, this man is just vile. On Sunday’s "Meet the Press," Tea Party darling and Colorado Republican Senate candidate Ken Buck made the outrageous claims that […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}