GOP delegate compares gay community to Ku Klux Klan

[DonViejo]

By Jake Zuckerman Staff writer 15 hrs ago

A second round of bigoted comments from a Republican delegate has drawn frustration from legislators and no sign of resolve.

Delegate Eric Porterfield, R-Mercer, made the comments after calling a reporter to discuss a report in Friday’s Gazette-Mail. That report detailed a flurry of criticism House Democrats aimed at Porterfield on Thursday in response to an inflammatory anti-gay and lesbian rant he delivered in committee Wednesday.

“The LGBTQ is a modern day version of the Ku Klux Klan, without wearing hoods with their antics of hate,” Porterfield said in an interview Friday morning. He also called the gay community a “terrorist group” and said he is being “persecuted” by the gay community in retaliation for his remarks, including receiving threats on Facebook and voicemails.

On Wednesday, he used the anti-gay slur “f----t” in a committee meeting, within the context of quoting the name of a speaking tour that uses the term in its title.

In an extended soliloquy at the hearing, he criticized the LGBTQ community while arguing in support of an amendment. The amendment, which was voted down, would have allowed for the discrimination of gay and lesbian people in cities that have passed ordinances expressly forbidding it. State law does not currently protect gay people from discrimination in housing, employment and other areas.

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[Dennis Donovan]

1. Porterfield's closet must be suffocating...

ANYONE sprouting that kind of vitriol about LGBTQ is troubled by somethiung they're not able to reconcile.

[DonViejo]

2. He's uglier than sin, I don't think he has to worry about anyone rattling that closet door...

[Dennis Donovan]

5. Holy shit!

No words...

[Hassin Bin Sober]

10. The last face you see before the trunk closes...

[unitedwethrive]

9. Exactly!

That's the way it always is with these haters.

[Ferrets are Cool]

3. I've heard some stupid chit in my lifetime...a long one, btw....

but NEVER have I heard ANYTHING this asinine. One of the most stupid set of sentences ever uttered.

[gratuitous]

4. And yet . . .

Nobody's saying Porterfield needs to resign (except one Democrat, quoted at the very end of the article). Certainly no Republicans are calling for his scalp.

[Garrett78]

6. Virginia is celebrating that Porterfield is not from Virginia.

[SWBTATTReg]

7. Hummm...so charming to see bigotry and hatred again against those in the gay world. ...

Especially from a so called legislator / representative of the WV people...I missed it! Sarcasm.

I am sure being visually impaired as he is, that he's experienced discrimination or the like in various parts of his life, like so many in the LGBTQ have. I would have thought, being visually challenged, he would understand discrimination, etc. perhaps better, and have at least a little compassion. Listening to him, I wonder.

See this relevant tweet from Steve Elroy, who posted this Feb. 8, 2019 (I hope Mr. Elroy doesn't mind me using his wise words here):
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The irony of Delegate Eric Porterfield opposition to protecting the LGBT community against discrimination in Housing, employment, etc., is that it would protect individuals with blindness, such as he. It does not protect stupidity though, which Porterfield is qualified in.
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7:27 AM - Feb 8, 2019

[Buckeyeblue]

8. With all the problems in West Virginia...

This guy has made it his priority to attack gay rights. I'm sure that will bring jobs to the state and cure their opioid epidemic.

What a fuck head!