Republican Official Says Gays Should Be Purged From GOP, Blames Homosexuality On Satan

[Miles Archer]

Republican Official Says Gays Should Be Purged From GOP, Blames Homosexuality On Satan



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/07/mary-helen-sears-michigan-gop_n_4740426.html

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."

Michigan's representatives on the Republican National Committee have lately stirred other controversy, mostly due to Dave Agema, a former state lawmaker who has regularly made anti-gay comments and has been condemned by fellow Republicans, including Gov. Rick Snyder.

[Timez Squarez]

1. Ask this insane women how GOP treats women

then show films after films of idiotic GOP going after women.

[etherealtruth]

2. K and R for exposure

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. Oh, I think they'll happily "purge" themselves from the GOP

on the basis of remarks like this. How many potential voters have these loons managed to chase off? Way to win elections, GOPers.

[oldandhappy]

4. All the LGBT folk I know are already Dems.

And if the repubs want to 'purge' then the rest of us are waiting to welcome them into the ranks of the people who believe in people and ideas and health care and immigration reform and voting rights and ---

[tblue37]

17. The leader of the Log Cabin Republicans was a Republican--though he recently

switched to Independent because of this sort of crap.

[oldandhappy]

18. good point

I forgot about the log cabin guys when I said that, and I do not know any. Hmmm One wonders what keeps them repubs. Tis interesting!

[tblue37]

20. They are well-to-do yuppies who hate paying taxes or having their busiinesses regulated at all. nt

[Cooley Hurd]

5. She's clearly emotionally disturbed - normal people just don't think this way...

[etherealtruth]

10. Tea Bag Derangement Syndrome!

[tblue]

6. How Nazi-like. Yeah, lady. You do that.

That party is poison.

[Bluenorthwest]

7. She sounds familiar, a down home version of Francis on marriage equality:

“Let us not be naive: this is not simply a political struggle, but it is an attempt to destroy God’s plan. It is not just a bill (a mere instrument) but a ‘move’ of the father of lies who seeks to confuse and deceive the children of God.”

[Iggo]

19. Good old Francis.

What a great guy.

[Turbineguy]

8. Republicans seem to be

intimately acquainted with Satan. At least they seem to brag about it.

[TwilightGardener]

9. Church Lady is back!

[Uben]

11. She is obviously genetically flawed

Must be some kind of birth defect for her to be so damn ignorant. She probably got the "stupid gene" and it appears to be the dominant part of what little brain she has. Poor woman, I hope she's able to find some help someday, but the gene usually means she'll be ignorant for life.

[Jefferson23]

12. Too bad the terrorists like her are not purged from the GOP.

I keep waiting for that.

[Faygo Kid]

13. Bad hair day, too.

The Michigan GOP has a decent history - Bill Milliken, George (definitely not Mitt) Romney, Arthur Vandenberg, Elly Peterson, Jerry Ford - but now this. This kind of insanity is directly due to gerrymandering and the Fox News/talk radio echo machine. And she's not an outlier in today's GOP - she's who they are and what they do.

[Jim Lane]

14. She seems perfectly qualified for a seat on the RNC.

Of course, the party would still need to make sure she believes that Obama was born in Kenya and that global warming is a hoax, but her campaign is off to a very promising start.

[gerogie2]

15. It's not SATAN's fault, but the leprechauns

When people believe in a made up character from a book as being real they can't comprehend how ignorant they look when they tell others the fictional character is real.

[Rex]

16. She will fit right in!

Hell I see VP material in this one! That or a Foxnews gig!