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Florida state Rep. Mike Hill (R) is refusing to apologize for laughing at the idea of executing LGBTQ people, but calls for his resignation are intensifying, with Equality Florida starting a petition.
At a constituent meeting in May in Pensacola, Hill, a Republican, laughed when one attendee suggested introducing legislation that would provide for the death penalty for a man who has an affair with another man, which Hill and the constituent found a basis for in the Bible. After several news outlets reported on the exchange, Hill at first denied laughing and said he barely remembered the conversation, but after he heard the audio he tweeted that he was laughing at the absurdity of the idea.
Rep. Carlos Guillermo Smith, the first openly gay Latino legislator in Florida, has demanded that Hill either apologize or resign. And now the statewide LGBTQ rights group Equality Florida has started a petition urging him to resign. The lawmaker contends hes the target of a social media lynching.
Hill has continued a pattern of denial, calling coverage of the exchange fake news or saying his actions were taken out of context. I never even said the words, he (said).
They cant say that I said, Lets kill gays. I did not.
(He just found it funny, and wont apologize?)
https://www.advocate.com/politics/2019/6/04/florida-rep-who-laughed-killing-gays-digs-wont-apologize
hlthe2b
(102,343 posts)onecaliberal
(32,888 posts)The nazis can do whatever the hell they want.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)I'm sure that would make headline news and cause an uproar about civility.