"Extending health benefits to gays will spread AIDS" dude is now republican candidate
Here's a bit of the story:
In 1995, when Dr. Bob Brooks was a Republican lawmaker in Florida (He became secretary of Health!), Disney World decided to give its gay employees health benefits, prompting Brooks to write a letter in which he decried Disney for supporting "a lifestyle that is unhealthy, unnatural and unworthy of special treatment."
Now that he's again running for the Florida House, Brooks is trying to distance himself from that homophobic crusade and present a less zealous version of himself.
"Over time, I'm more comfortable with a [domestic partner] registry," Brooks told the Orlando Sentinel of recognizing LGBT people's relationships. Marriage, of course, is still off the table. "[I'm focussing] specifically on the economy, jobs and health care... The social issues are not going to be as a high a priority."
Rival Linda Stewart isn't going to let Brooks off that easily, though. "He can't run away from that," she told the Sentinel. And the state Democratic Party is giving her a helping hand: they recently published a flier comparing Brooks to disliked Gov. Rick Scott and, yes, that flier makes mention of Brooks' Disney protest.
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I've never heard of health care spreading a disease more than it can cure one. BUT, he is probably only talking about legitimate HIV.
At least he says he is focused on jobs and won't do anything about social issues. Just like the republicans in washington who are so focused on jobs they have introduces a TON of jobs bills and no social issues bills.
The blog this came from: http://www.towleroad.com/2012/08/gop-candidate-haunted-by-anti-gay-disney-letter.html
The Orlando Sentinel article the blog links to: http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2012-08-24/news/os-brooks-stewart-house-race-20120824_1_bob-brooks-domestic-partner-abortion