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WTF of the day: Homophobic Wildroser Allan Hunsperger now claims he's pro-equality
Was Allan Hunsperger born that way too?
Talk about an about-face. Or is it a double-face?
Allan Hunsperger, the Wildrose candidate for Edmonton South West and pastor who has been burning in his own little real-life hell for blogging that homosexuals would "suffer the rest of eternity in the lake of fire", has released a statement that he is all for equality and tolerance. Hmm.
"I fully support equality for all people, and condemn any intolerance based on sexual orientation or any other personal characteristic," he stated on his blog. He added that his views were made in his capacity as a pastor and are his own religious views.
It remains unclear who exactly he thinks will believe his statements, besides his wife Cindy who was a coauthor of the controversial blog post.
The post, entitled "Born This Way" (a response to the anthemic Lady Gaga song of the same name which advocates acceptance), in question was also taken down. He said in the post that homosexuality is a choice and that he wasn't judging but "simply stating a fact". (Does he know that from experience?)
Alberta's Progressive Conservative leader Allison Redford told reporters that it "absolutely blows" her mind that there are Albertans like him who think that views like these are a "legitimate perspective".
Alberta Party leader Glenn Taylor posted a blog on his own site, requesting Hunsperger's removal. Taylor zeroed in on the fact that Hunsperger was against an antihomophobia policy for Edmonton public schools.
"The fact that Mr. Hunsperger has advocated against policies that protect children makes him unfit for public office," he stated in the post.
Members of the Albertan queer community are also calling for an apology and his resignation.
However, Wildrose leader Danielle Smith has stood by Hunsperger, insisting that the statements made were by him as a pastor and that his religious beliefs are none of her business.
Well, we'll soon find out how Albertans truly feel when they head to the polls next week on April 23.
By the way, this uproar comes on the heels of a new study that has once again proven that those with homophobic views are often closet cases externalizing inner conflicts with their own same-sex attractions.
Simply stating a fact.
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Says it all.
http://www.humanistsofutah.org/2002/WhyCantIOwnACanadian_10-02.html
Also you can not realistically mask bigoted views as religious views. Just because they are self proclaimed religious views does not protect them from hate speech.
Besides, Hunsperger's a politician, and as such every comment he makes in public is open to scrutiny, because it can be taken as a statement of his personal policy. That's how politics works.
What if we totally ignored the tiny but noisy proportion of the population with deviant sexuality and focused on issues that have wide-ranging import? Maybe?
No, that's no fun, how will that generate $$$ for whining special-interest groups?
I went down down down and the flames they went higher
And it burns burns burns, the lake of fire
The lake of fire(insert horns)
Send in the big guns, Rosie O'donnell, she'll straighten him out and then go home and fuk her wife!
Voting Conservative by the way!!!
lol be sure to pass that on to every special interest group manipulating statistics to further their goals :)
Some come to mind - big oil, pharmaceuticals, corporations dependent on Chinese labour, feminist groups, climate change deniers, etc
All Canadians -- including childless homosexuals -- benefit from a healthy marriage culture. All Canadians pay the price in increased taxes, mental illness, crime and human suffering when mothers and fathers choose to divorce or not marry. Adding same-sex marriages to a hodgepodge of family groupings will only worsen the confusion."
He should let Alberta voters know if he still holds these views, and if so, how would they impact on his role as a lawmaker & upholder of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
The man is a obviously a stupid redneck but this sending off "haters" to the gulag talk is even scarier to me. I remember when liberals were the people that were seemingly the hardest to offend. Hypocrisy is just as analogous to the Bill O' Reilly and Allan Hunsberger's of this world as it is to the East Van Chairman Mao brigade. It's just as abrasive as well.
I'm sorry but real free speech includes tolerating peoples right to say things no matter how woefully misinformed of reality or the facts they may be. That goes for Allan Hunsberger just like it goes Ernst Zundel and his Hitler UFO theories. It's been my experience that the truth usually wins out in the end.
Stephen Mandel, "There's no place in Alberta for people with such opinions as this." [very loose paraphrase]
Man with sign on street, "Burn the WildRose Bigots."
Looks like we have a "religious cleansing" going on.
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