Ex-Senator Who Accused Teachers Of Spreading Homosexuality Wants His Old Job Back

[Behind the Aegis]

Former Sen. Bob Smith (R-NH) announced Sunday that he will again seek the Senate seat he lost in a 2002 primary. Smith, who left the Republican Party in 1999 to pursue a right-wing independent presidential run and returned 111 days later when a plum committee chairmanship came open, will seek the GOP nomination to challenge Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D).

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1. He rabidly opposed the “homosexual lifestyle.” As a Senator, Smith opposed LGBT equality at every opportunity — voting to keep anti-gay employment discrimination legal, opposing hate crimes protections, and refusing to even institute a non-discrimination policy for his own employees. Worse, he joined with Helms to oppose any federal funding for schools that “encourage homosexuality,” by teaching about LGBT families in an inclusive way. Calling such messages “trash,” he asked his colleagues in 1994 why federal tax dollars would be spent to “advocate and encourage the homosexual lifestyle in the curriculae of public schools in this country?” He proposed that “if a public school decides and the parents in that school district decide that this is appropriate in their school system–I cannot imagine why they would–but if they did or they do, fine. You just do not get any federal dollars.” He also joined with Helms to propose special protections for the Boy Scouts of America’s right to discriminate, warning “Rome died from a lot less than this. When you dilute your moral code to this extent, and if this keeps up, the obituary for America is going to be written.” He opposed confirmation of openly LGBT nominees, saying that sending Ambassador James Hormel to Luxembourg was “like sending Louis Farrakhan to Israel,” and that confirming Roberta Achtenberg as Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development could lead to America becoming “a society cast off from our moral underpinnings and set adrift.”

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Smith was well to the right of most of his Republican colleagues. When he briefly left the GOP in 1999, he complained that too often, he was alone in defending the GOP’s conservative platform and principals. “Only one [Senator] — right here, Bob Smith — voted against funding for the U.N.,” he noted, adding that he was just one of three Senators to oppose the confirmation of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg to the Supreme Court. Smith was also one of just 27 Senators to vote against the Family and Medical Leave Act and one of just three to vote against the Ryan White AIDS funding bill.

the complete article: http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/12/03/3011081/reintroducing-bob-smith/

[CurtEastPoint]

1. OMG he is still stupid but he did grow hair, apparently...

[Behind the Aegis]

2. Chia pets grow hair too.

I am guessing they both have the same IQ too.



Ch-ch-ch-chia!

[CurtEastPoint]

3. Zing! Good one! Probably the Chia is a few notches above.

[CurtEastPoint]

4. Jeez, read this clown's article in Wiki...he has either been in office or gadflying about TRYING to

get in office since the early 80s.

[drkedjr]

5. Totally Bad

Smith did lots of interesting things when in the NH legislature. Most memorable was his siding with another right wingnut, to say that he didn't have a problem with Gays donating blood as long as they gave it all. Just saw a current picture of Smith and glad to see he now looks like an old, gay auntie ...