You stay classy Tea Partiers!!!

[LynneSin]

Tea Party Speaker Reportedly Tells LGBT Protesters: 'We Will Not Be Silenced By Faggots'

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/16/tea-party-patriots-massachusetts-gay-protest_n_1428679.html

A Tea Party tax day protest and counter-demonstration in Boston got testy over the weekend, with the confrontation reportedly leading to a speaker telling a group of LGBT activists that they wouldn't be "silenced by faggots."

Scott Wooledge relays the supposed slur in a lengthy post at Daily Kos breaking down the encounter between Tea Partyers, counter-protesters from numerous progressive groups and police officers.

Reports from attendees were that in response to disturbances by protestors, one of the speakers said from the podium, broadcast across the loud speakers at the Commons, "We will not be silenced by faggots."

Photographers also documented at least one instance of police appearing to get physical with the pro-LGBT presence

[earthside]

1. I got news for ya ...

That is classy for Tea Partyites.

Sad, isn't it?

[LynneSin]

2. Isn't that sad

And they think it's ok to be like that - who cares if you insult a few people just because they 'aren't like you'

[freshwest]

3. I much prefer them to 'out' themselves in public, so no one is taken in by them. Let 'em snarl where

They will be heard by everyone. And people can decide if these are the ones they want running the show. IMHO, this won't help them.

[vercetti2021]

4. Never were classy anyway

More proof cons are homophobic.

[Initech]

5. The tea party terrorists strike again. Words fail me.

[frogmarch]

6. Who's the cop with a strangle-hold

on that man? What was that about?

[madinmaryland]

7. Teabaggers and "class" do not belong in the same sentence. nt

[spanone]

8. impossible