Jeb Bush: Gays Like "Polluters, Pornographers, Drunk Drivers"

[RandySF]

During his first and unsuccessful bid for governor in 1994, Bush argued in an editorial that LGBT people do not deserve special legal protection. “We have enough special categories, enough victims, without creating even more,” he wrote.

In the editorial, published in the Miami Herald that summer, Bush drew a parallel between legal protection for gays and the question, “[Should] sodomy be elevated to the same constitutional status as race and religion? My answer is No.”

“The statement that the governor must stand up for all people on all matters is just silly,” Bush wrote, arguing that government does not defend every Floridian “with equal verve and enthusiasm.” He listed a string of examples: “Polluters, pedophiles, pornographers, drunk drivers, and developers without proper permits.”

Bush wrote the piece in response to a Herald editorial suggesting that he and his opponent in the Republican primary, Ander Crenshaw, held views on homosexuality that made them bigots. (The editorial focused on Crenshaw, now a congressman, but singled out Bush for reportedly saying employers and landlords should have the right to reject employees or tenants because of their sexuality.)


http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/jeb-bush-in-94-sodomy-shouldnt-be-given-same-protections-as#.qn933JwJPj

[name not needed]

1. Explains why you never see him in public with George.

[Thinkingabout]

2. W said "shut up you are talking about me".

I don't know why they don't have some respect for themselves but he has to play to his "base".

[Skittles]

3. what a smarmy, entitled arrogant piece of SHIT

f*** him and the FAMILY HE RODE IN ON

[BrotherIvan]

14. ^^^

Kick his fuckin smug ass.

[jmowreader]

4. I didn't realize there were so many gay Republicans

But come on, polluters and developers without proper permits? Aren't those the guys who fund Republican campaigns in the first place?

[Dawson Leery]

5. Jeb will be a worse President than his brother.

Jebby is an open bigot who uses no code words.

[Nye Bevan]

6. Ouch.

I bet he is regretting that one.

[Wellstone ruled]

7. This was a trial balloon for things that will come

later. Appears the Bush campaign will go total divide the nation into if you don't like or agree with some person or group of persons,come join the hate mongers called the Bush for President campaign.

[Kevin from WI]

8. I don't normally swear in my posts

But this fucking bigot asshole is going to be running for president, and he has supporters. There are actually fucking people who read this shit and think to themselves "that would be good for merica... he's a good guy, needs ta have him as president to protect us." And the truly frightening thing is he is considered a moderate in the Republican party.

[Agschmid]

9. Fizzle...

[Cha]

10. ****** is an Idiot.

[City Lights]

11. Fuck you, Count Jebbula.

Fuck you up, down, and sideways, you stinking sack of shit.

[lpbk2713]

12. Like all (R)'s his support goes out to the highest bidder.

He'll always be a Bush. Nothing can change that.

[rhett o rick]

13. And Babs said he was the smarter son. nm

[BrotherIvan]

15. Red meat for "the base"

He's a fine one that Jebby. His evil mother must be so proud.

[bemildred]

16. And he is supposed to be the smart one. nt

[RandySF]

19. The daughter is a drug addict and the son is a stalker.

[raccoon]

17. Didn't one of Jeb's kids have problems with drugs/alcohol? nt

[randome]

18. Twenty years ago? Meh. That's just a youthful indiscretion.

I'm not being optimistic when I say this but an editorial like that -in today's climate- dooms him from becoming President.
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The lyrics to the songbird's melodious trill go something like this:
"Stay out of my territory or I'll PECK YOUR GODDAMNED EYES OUT!"[/center][/font][hr]

[Bluenorthwest]

20. There are those on DU who say 94 was a long, long time ago and Republicans back then were

different from Republicans today, more moderate. People who say that are of course all straight white people. Each and every last one of them. I sure remember the Reagan/Bush Republican Party as a racist, homophobic, anti choice Party of union busting pirates. People who voted for them voted for pirates, and most did so because it made them personally wealthy.

[Nye Bevan]

21. Not just Republicans. Bill Clinton signed DOMA into law in 1996,

the only president ever to sign a federal law that explicitly discriminated against gay people.

And not only did he sign it, he bragged to Christian groups about signing it, during his re-election campaign.