Canadian politician: Execute gays

[ccharles000]

http://www.365gay.com/news/canadian-politician-execute-gays/

(Sudbury, Ontario) A Northern Ontario candidate running for a seat in Canada’s parliament could find himself sitting in jail instead, after telling high school students that gays should be executed.

Sudbury police are investigating David Popescu under Canada’s hate crime law, which makes it a federal offense to promote hatred or incite violence against minorities, including gays and lesbians.

Popescu was one of a number of candidates invited to participate in a question and answer session with students at Sudbury Secondary School.

He made the remark after a student asked him for his opinion of same-sex marriage which became legal in Canada in 2004.

People who were in the room said that students jeered Popescu when he made that comment and others, including blaming the economic downturn and environmental damage on the wickedness of society and that, “God would hurt” those who had an abortion.

[redwitch]

1. I guess the insane people have crossed the border.

Well, at least one of them. We still have a few. I predict his political career is down the tubes. Some time in jail would not be a bad thing for this SOB.

[YOY]

3. Don't blame US on that one...Fundies are everywhere.

In every religion and on every corner of the earth...they generally are complete clownshoes the world over.

[melody]

7. Excuse me? You have plenty of homegrown insane people.

He's not one of ours.

[redwitch]

9. Didn't mean to offend anyone.

So sorry to have done so. When I hear of someone making statements like he made about gays and about abortion I think of the US grown loonie that we read aboit every day. I am certain every country on earth has hateful people, I was just making a comment to tell the OP thaat I had read the post and was sad for Canada.

[melody]

10. One shouldn't respond to hatred with more hate

It's intellectually invalid to generalize about any group of people ... including Americans.

[redwitch]

11. Again, I am sorry to have offended.

Peace.

[Posteritatis]

2. Lovely fellow; what's his party affiliation?

That's wacky even for the conservatives, so I'm assuming he's an independent or one of the dominionist parties that rattle around now and then?

[HeresyLives]

4. He's an independent that has

run several times I believe. He usually gets maybe 50 votes.

[rurallib]

5. In the US he'd be a hero to some; in Canada he could end up in jail

and that tells a bunch.

[melody]

8. To whom would he be a hero in the States?

Just the truly far-right nutjobs and Canada has plenty of their own.

[marmar]

6. What a wackjob......

He doesn't get out of his cave very often.

[Selatius]

12. Whether it be a car bomb or the gas chamber, intolerance should never be allowed to stand.

This guy is a terrorist. What difference is there between him and the religious fundamentalists who routinely blow up people? The absence of a turban?