Openly Lesbian Council Member Heckled, Called 'Filth'

[theHandpuppet]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/05/jovanka-beckles-hate-speech_n_5651351.html
Openly Lesbian Council Member Heckled, Called 'Filth'
The Huffington Post
By Sam Levine
08/05/2014

When a local resident heckled Jovanka Beckles recently, it was nothing new for the first openly lesbian member of the City Council in Richmond, California, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

"I'm going to keep coming up here and tell you how gays have no morality. ... You're filth. You're dirt. Because I have the constitutional right to say it," resident Mark Wassberg said at a council meeting last month.

While Beckles brushed off Wassberg’s comments, she told another heckler to get “out of my [expletive] face” last month, calling those who were bothering her "a bunch of bullies," according to KTVU. Beckles, the city's vice mayor, also recently proposed a crackdown on hate speech in Richmond.

But the taunting doesn’t always come from the public. Sometimes Beckles, who was first elected to the council in 2010, is taunted by her own colleagues.

"She's got a short fuse," Councilman Corky Boozé told the Chronicle. "Some people don't care for her lifestyle. I don't care for it myself, but she takes that in a homophobic way. I'm not homophobic -- my ex-wife is a lesbian."....

Riiight, Corky. No wonder she's your ex-wife. And how dare Beckles be so impolite when people get in her face about her "lifestyle".

[shenmue]

1. Good Lord

Why do people have to be so nasty?



Bullies are always cowards, though. They'll lose in the end.

[KurtNYC]

2. how does that town get anything done if they use public meetings to judge each others "lifestyle"?

Publish a meeting agenda and stick to it. Yeesh.

[LostOne4Ever]

3. How do these people not see their own hypocrisy?

They tell the council woman she has no morality yet he is the one calling someone who has never done him any wrong "filth."

They are the ones w/ no morality

[nomorenomore08]

4. And this *had* to be right near where I live, too...