Comments About Gays Cost Lawmaker His Chairmanship

[RandySF]

http://www.ktvu.com/news/18761235/detail.html

SALT LAKE CITY -- A Utah state senator was kicked off a judicial committee he chaired on Friday after comparing gay activists to radical Muslims.

Sen. Chris Buttars, R-West Jordan, also told former local television reporter Reed Cowan, an openly gay documentary producer who now lives in Florida, that gay activists are "probably the greatest threat to America going down."

As chairman of the committee, Buttars frequently took pride in killing legislation that would have extended some legal rights to gay couples. He has long complained that gay people lack morals and are trying to indoctrinate others into a gay lifestyle.

"What is the morals of a gay person? You can't answer that, because anything goes. So now you're moving toward a society that has no morals," Buttars said to Cowan in the January interview, which was about the Proposition 8 campaign to ban gay marriage in California and the involvement of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

[niyad]

1. pity he is still a senator, though. I saw that earlier today, and was glad that even in

homophobic UT, some of them can do the proper thing.

[RandySF]

2. Maybe Utah is slowly changing

I thought I once heart that a lot of people from more tolerant parts of the country have been moving to the Salt Lake City area.

[Terran]

3. "Buttars"...LOL

He's just scarred by that name, poor thing. :nopity:

[sinkingfeeling]

4. Good. But somehow I doubt that he will learn anything from it. I would also suspect that anybody

could surpass this guy's morals!

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

7. Of course, he'll consider himself a persecuted Christian martyr

and double up on the venom.

But of course -- all together now -- HE'S NOT A REAL CHRISTIAN!!111!!!!

[sakabatou]

5. No pity

:nopity:

[BR_Parkway]

6. I can't wait until whichever closet case you're banging on the side

comes out with the story and it goes National.