Michigan GOP leader Dave Agema compares gays to alcoholics: 'We'll help you get out of it'

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Source: MLive.com

Michigan Republican National Committeeman Dave Agema continues to defend his decision to share an article warning parents about the "filthy lifestyle" of homosexuals, saying this week that Christians should help people "get out of it."

Agema, who is in Los Angeles representing Michigan at the RNC's annual spring meeting, discussed the controversy Wednesday on Washington Watch, a radio show run by the Family Research Council.

"What I'd like to have the homosexual community know is I don't hate them," he said. "As a matter of fact when Jesus caught a woman in the act of adultery when they brought her to him he said I don't condemn you but go and sin no more. That ought to be the church's goal here. We ought to be saying to these people, 'Hey, we don't agree with your lifestyle and we'll help you get out of it, but we want you to know the facts of what's going to happen to you if you stay in this lifestyle.'"

The former state representative from West Michigan entered the national debate on gay marriage two weeks ago by sharing an article on Facebook titled "Everyone Should Know These Statistics on Homosexuality," which began with a warning to parents that their children could be "indoctrinated" at public schools.

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keep digging, Republicans, keep digging...

[Iliyah]

1. I still think that more than 1/2 of GOPers

still believe that gays are an abomination. Santorum and others are still saying "Onward Christian Soldiers" against gays and abortion. They HATE both equally.

[iandhr]

2. How's that how rebranding thing going.

[MichiganVote]

3. Pure Michigan-GOP

[Archae]

4. And he still won't disavow the stuff he uses from a white supremacist.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022622913

[we can do it]

5. No thank you, asshole.....

[xtraxritical]

7. That's exactly what they want you to say!

[we can do it]

8. (Well if I were male, I'd agree.......)

[etherealtruth]

6. Michigan Republicans

Never fail to embarrass themselves and our state

[Ken Burch]

10. Which do they hate more...gays or Detroit?

[etherealtruth]

11. Its not an either /or situation

They can hate Detroit, gays and unions with equal vigor.

They have made being from Michigan an embarrassment!

[Ken Burch]

12. Where is their geographic power base in the state, btw? Is it mainly the Upper Peninsula?

Or more the Detroit 'burbs?

[etherealtruth]

13. The burbs are pretty evenly split

our rural areas and the west side of the state (excluding Grand Rapids) are very conservative.

I don't really believe the state is as conservative as our right wing nut job politicians are ... I honestly believe folk were voting for "change" and had no idea that the change we would get was a ride on the crazy train.

The UP is "kinda" like the wild west ... they do their own thing. In many ways they are not in line with either party (but they do tend to be socially conservative).

[Ken Burch]

9. I've got "three weeks 'til this guy gets busted at a Motel 6 with a rent boy" in the pool.

anybody else in?

[Zoeisright]

14. FOAD, Agema

I just wish there was a hell so you'd burn in it, you fucker.