A new candidate for a Michigan seat on the Republican National Committee wants gays "purged" from the GOP and claims homosexuality is a "perversion" created by Satan himself.
Mary Helen Sears of Houghton County in the state's Upper Peninsula, elected vice chair of the Michigan Republican Party's 1st District last year, posted a rant in April on the Schoolcraft County GOP website -- preceded by a warning asking readers to "please use your discretion before taking any decisions based on the information in this blog."
In the post, Sears claimed that homosexuals prey on children, argued that "Satan uses homosexuality to attack the living space of the Holy Spirit" and advocated that Republicans "as a party should be purging this perversion and send them to a party with a much bigger tent."
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Sears, in her post on the Schoolcraft County GOP website, wrote that Communist college professors were indoctrinating young people and claimed that Charles Darwin's evolutionary theory "gave rise to Hitler’s Third Reich, Mussolini’s Italy and Stalin’s Russia."
"If the GOP continues down this trend and stand for perversions and the daily social fad ... The GOP will be truly dead and Satan will have had his day," Sears wrote.
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Pedophiles prey on children, not homosexuals. Homosexuals are attracted to adult people of the same gender, like heterosexuals are attracted to adult people of the opposite gender.
Yes, please do; please send all rational people to a party with a much bigger and more inclusive tent.
Republican college professors probably indoctrinate young people too. Isn't it a bit late to start the indoctrination at college level? Hitler was a creationist Catholic and had Darwin's books burned. All three were power-hungry politicians who eradicated their political opponents. Hitler and Mussolini were right-wing fascists, and Stalin was left-wing extremist.
If the GOP continues down this trend and stand for equality, empathy and respect, the GOP will be truly... popular among the young people. We can't have that, can we?
Why do you fundies insist on making Satan look like the good guy?
The GOP will be truly dead and Satan will have had his day
You say that as if it's a bad thing, and as far as I can tell, Satan seems to be a pretty decent guy.
"wants gays "purged" from the GOP"
Makes me think of that movie The Purge (haven't seen it myself.)
What if the plot of that had been that for one night each year it wasn't ALL activities that are normally criminal that was legal, but opposite-gender rape of anyone of same-gender orientation?
A new candidate for a Michigan seat on the Republican National Committee wants gays "purged" from the GOP and claims homosexuality is a "perversion" created by Satan himself.
Just when you thought there were a lot of crazies in the Republican Party in 2012... They're not even trying to hide the crazy now.
"please use your discretion before taking any decisions based on the information in this blog."
In other words, "If you're nuts enough to go out and kill some gays, don't tell them you got the idea here."
Republicans "as a party should be purging this perversion and send them to a party with a much bigger tent."
By all means, send them over to the Democratic Party, along with anyone else you find undesirable. Then sit around and keep wondering why you never win elections any more. It's obvious that you didn't learn anything from 2012.
...A real winner, this one. Seriously, can the GOP just truly die already, please!? It's limping about like a walker gnawing on itself spreading rotten filth and shit everywhere.
And while gay republicans exist, there's not exactly a tsunami of GLBT people clamoring to join up with the GOP. Which I guess is good news according to the likes of this bigot and most repubs.
"Charles Darwin's evolutionary theory "gave rise to Hitler’s Third Reich, Mussolini’s Italy and Stalin’s Russia."
Except that Hitlers germany outlawed teaching evolution and Stalins russia sent darwinians to siberia.
That's some interesting fellow travelers you're travelling with.
@Deep Search:
...A real winner, this one. Seriously, can the GOP just truly die already, please!? It's limping about like a walker gnawing on itself spreading rotten filth and shit everywhere.
Unfortunately a third of Americans truely believe the GOP filth . . . and they are the most motivated voters. SO the GOP will not die. It's like a zombie, leaving a trail of rot and filth and it keeps on going.
Republicans "as a party should be purging this perversion and send them to a party with a much bigger tent."
- You mean a tent that actually has a chance of getting the votes needed to win an election? That raises an interesting question: if you don't plan on winning a majority of votes, how do you plan to acquire the power to institute your reforms?
I hope that there are a lot of people in Michigan asking that question.
As the Swede so rightly notes, it is Pedophiles who prey on children, not homosexuals. And I can't speak to the issue of how many pedos are in the Republican Party, I do know the Roman Catholic Church is just jam packed with pedos. So why isn't this Sears person going after that real source of danger to children?
"Sears claimed that homosexuals prey on children, argued that "Satan uses homosexuality to attack the living space of the Holy Spirit" and advocated that Republicans "as a party should be purging this perversion and send them to a party with a much bigger tent"
Vladimir Poo-tin thinks that 'Homosexuality is a perversion' too; otherwise, he'd allow the teaching of alternative lifestyles in Russian schools. 'Homosexuals prey on children', you say...?:
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You do realise, that experts say that paedophiles aren't homosexuals; they can be married heterosexuals . And just two words completely destroy your argument: 'Informed Consent'.
'If the GOP continues down this trend and stand for perversions and the daily social fad ... The GOP will be truly dead and Satan will have had his day', you say? If. ' [/Spartan Laconic Wit]
...oh, and 'send them to a party with a much bigger tent'? Vladdy-boy, come with me to the Bolshoy Ice Dome; have a seat. Just right there...! [/Chris Hansen]
@Dr. Shrinker
"- You mean a tent that actually has a chance of getting the votes needed to win an election? That raises an interesting question: if you don't plan on winning a majority of votes, how do you plan to acquire the power to institute your reforms?"
There is allways gerrymandering
"In the post, Sears claimed that homosexuals prey on children"
"Sears, in her post on the Schoolcraft County GOP website, wrote that Communist college professors were indoctrinating young people and claimed that Charles Darwin's evolutionary theory "gave rise to Hitler’s Third Reich, Mussolini’s Italy and Stalin’s Russia." "
This woman is an ignoramus. Gay people do not prey on children or young men. It is paedophiles who do that. This in itself says a lot about the people who would vote this person into office.
As an elected person, making references to the Holy Spirit is drawing religion into public life. This is surely against the US Constitution. So why is she still running for office? She should have been dumped for contravening in letter and spirit (not holy) the foundation stone of the country.
If the GOP continues down this road it will be the party of Theocracy.
As for purging, wasn't it Stalin who mainly indulged in that?
Hmm, let's see, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin were all very big on purges. You imply you feel them to be the bad guys, along with Darwin, and yet you advocate behaving just like them. Curious that.
Kuno
How do these people keep getting elected?
Very easy to explain, Americans go to the polling place and vote for her!
What that says about the voters in the US, I'll leave undiscussed.
Shameless panderer, or another sincere loon? You decide. ... Vote early and often.
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>>Mary Helen Sears
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You do? That's... Well, that's an unusual approach. Political parties and candidates usually want as many people voting for them as possible, but I know it makes sense somehow, if you're the one doing it.
Ironic the person that wants to "purge" a party of a certain group of a people, compares that group to the Nazis.
Yea no, that only Nazi like group is you, Mary.
Maybe, just maybe, the Republican Party is getting a clue as to what century this is. If they play their cards right, they could get back into the political mainstream by dumping loonies like Sears.
I have never understood why these bozos are so interested in other people's sex lives. If they don't like homosexuality, it is simple: Just don't practice it.
In order to win in the midterm elections this year and in the presidential election in 2016, all the democrats need to do is play recordings of the things their Republican opponents say on a loop, or have dramatic readings of the shit the Republicans post online or mailed out to their friends and followers.
There's no need for anything else. The Republicans' own words are bad enough.
The GOP will be truly dead and Satan will have had his day
Elections are won in the middle, not on the fringe. If the Republicans want to rip themselves asunder into whacko fractions of rabid nutjobs frothing at the mouth, I'm not going to stop them.
"We'd better retain our current prejudices (i.e... homophobia), or else the Republican Party will die out."
*wipes tears from eyes*. Oh, this is just too fucking glorious.
Alright, Sears, if you say so. Republican Party; go ahead and try doing as she says.
@Kuno
How do these people keep getting elected?
Because the electorate is full of ignorant fucks who like to dominate other people. Same reason why KKK members used to hold positions of power. If gay rights legislation eventually succeeds, they'll pick another group to shit on. People are fucking monsters.
@aebars
'We'd better retain our current prejudices (i.e... homophobia), or else the Republican Party will die out.'
"*wipes tears from eyes*. Oh, this is just too fucking glorious.
Alright, Sears, if you say so. Republican Party; go ahead and try doing as she says."
(*sings *)
'They're going off the railsOn a Crazy Train! '
[/Ozzy Osbourne] >:D
The GOP will be truly dead and Satan will have had his day
Actually, Ms. Sears; I'm afraid you've spoken too late. You're party's been dead for years and maniacs like you just stole the name for Orwellian purposes. You're the real "RINOs", not "moderate" members of your bunch. Abraham Lincoln's corpse is spinning so hard that his tomb's now home to a wormhole portal to a parallel universe....or he's now Wonder Woman!
Y'know, Ma'am? The whole "Homosexual = Pedophile" chestnut is getting really REALLY OLD!
@SpukiKitty :
Abraham Lincoln's corpse is spinning so hard that his tomb's now home to a wormhole portal to a parallel universe....or he's now Wonder Woman!
Honest Abe in Wondy's costume... Now that's a mental image!
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