Herman Cain: I’d tap gay cabinet members because they wouldn’t impose Sharia law

[Playinghardball]

Source: RawReplay
By Sahil Kapur

Republican 2012 presidential candidate Herman Cain, who was recently criticized for saying he wouldn’t permit Muslims in his cabinet, says he wouldn’t have a problem with openly gay appointees.

“Nope, not at all. I wouldn’t have a problem with that at all,” Cain told ThinkProgress at an event in Iowa. “I want them qualified, I want them to basically believe in the Constitution of the United States of America. So, yup, I don’t have a problem with appointing an openly gay person.”

“Because they are not going to try to put Sharia law in our laws,” he said, with a giggle.

Cain, the former CEO of Godfather’s Pizza, has never held elected office, but he has recently surged in the Republican primary polls.

Watch the video, via ThinkProgress’s Marie Diamond

http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/06/herman-cain-id-tap-gay-cabinet-members-because-they-wouldnt-impose-sharia-law/

[geardaddy]

1. He'd tap that.

[Myrina]

3. That was my first thought, too!

:rofl: Hey now!

[geardaddy]

7. heh-heh

:D

[ecstatic]

2. I'm sure he'll issue a retraction later today

after Limbo weighs in.

[ergot]

4. Good god

"he said, with a giggle"?????????????????

:scared:

[Angry Dragon]

5. The old Biblical laws are so much better

[safeinOhio]

6. With the changes in the Middle East,

why would anyone think sharia law has a chance here if it is failing there?

[no_hypocrisy]

8. Gee, that's mightly big of him.

Selective discrimination by taking one oppressed group to oppress another oppressed group.

[yellowcanine]

9. The fact that this goofball is doing well in Republican Primary polls says a lot.