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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsKim Davis inspires NC mayoral candidate to jail gays: ‘What’s wrong with eradicating homosexuals?’
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/09/kim-davis-inspires-nc-mayoral-candidate-to-jail-gays-whats-wrong-with-eradicating-homosexuals/A mayoral candidate in a small Charlotte suburb wants to eradicate homosexuality and throw LGBT people in jail, the Kings Mountain Herald reports.
Eugene Holmes, who is running for mayor of Kings Mountain, says he doesnt want to be mayor, but hes running because of his anti-gay views. He views Kentucky clerk Kim Davis as something of a role model.
In my administration I would do just like Mrs. Davis did in Kentucky, Holmes said. If you elect me, Ill uphold the law of the state of North Carolina. I would get the D.A. to swear out a warrant on any man who says hes gay. Sodomy is a crime, a felony in the state of North Carolina.
Holmes said hes a member of the Church of God and also the Promise Keepers, a mens religious organization.
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Kim Davis inspires NC mayoral candidate to jail gays: ‘What’s wrong with eradicating homosexuals?’ (Original Post)
diabeticman
Sep 2015
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I deplore the fate of any LGBT person unlucky enough to live in the vicinity of Charlotte.
Betty Karlson
Sep 2015
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Egnever
(21,506 posts)1. I think this guy has mental issues
He was institutionalized before
Archae
(46,314 posts)2. I read the full article, the guy is a convicted felon.
In addition to being simply nuts.
Betty Karlson
(7,231 posts)3. I deplore the fate of any LGBT person unlucky enough to live in the vicinity of Charlotte.
Because you know this rhetoric will enevitably lead to a hate crime. Sooner or later, blood will be shed over this kind of hatemongering. May God damn this man.
MMTampa
(82 posts)4. Apparently he is on the ballot as Sherlock Holmes...
He served 5 years in prison for larceny. (85'-90') In July of this year he disrupted a flea market (?) and when he was being arrested he faked a heart attack. He was sent from the hospital to jail and later released when his bond was lowered. He has a court appearance on September 28th. Thanks Kim.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)5. "I couldn't find enough hateful ideas in North Carolina
so I imported some from Kentucky."
nichomachus
(12,754 posts)6. Isn't it just a little ironic
That "Promise Keepers" and "Oath Keepers" lionize a woman who was jailed for violating her oath?
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)7. What is it with these people? Why do they think about this so much and why
does it bother them so much? I really don't get it.
AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)8. We're here, We're queer, We guess we are going to jail.