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Republican Maine state Representative Lawrence Lockman is under fire for comments hes made in the media regarding rape, abortion, and homosexuality.
An investigation by Mike Tipping, an activist with Maine Peoples Alliance, found numerous offensive comments made by the Republican in various newspaper interviews.
Perhaps the most inflammatory was a press statement from 1995 in which Lockman says If a woman has (the right to an abortion), why shouldnt a man be free to use his superior strength to force himself on a woman? At least the rapists pursuit of sexual freedom doesnt (in most cases) result in anyones death.
http://issuehawk.com/igor/2014/03/04/republican-if-a-woman-has-right-to-an-abortion-a-man-should-have-right-to-force-himself-on-a-woman.html#WJvXYWzAX0JLV5YF.99
Ilsa
(61,690 posts)3catwoman3
(23,947 posts)...puzzlement."
nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)blue neen
(12,319 posts)Gee, I wonder why he's a member of the Republican party.
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)moriah
(8,311 posts)Sadly.
LuvNewcastle
(16,834 posts)Oh God, if someone said that to me, I would lose it, and they would wish they had kept their mouth shut! I would say that the statement is insane, but insane people rarely say anything so offensive. It's so warped and evil, I just don't know where to start. That's one instance where I would have to think hard about whether it was all right to castrate the motherfucker. It's that fucking bad.
Fortinbras Armstrong
(4,473 posts)His argument boils down to "Two wrongs make a right". Or possibly "If you can do this evil thing, then I can do a different evil thing."
MH1
(17,573 posts)What a lowlife slimeball.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)progressoid
(49,945 posts)CanonRay
(14,084 posts)Quantess
(27,630 posts)and is now justifying it, rationalizing it.
After reading about the other things he's said, he is also a mixture of mentally ill and willfully ignorant. A solid modern-day republican, in other words!
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,682 posts)result in abortion.
Is this grounds for a recall?
shenmue
(38,506 posts)What is wrong with some people?
Sheldon Cooper
(3,724 posts)I think we need some clarification here.
superpatriotman
(6,246 posts)Right, douchebag?
IronLionZion
(45,380 posts)only to a sociopath.
That dude might be guilty of something. He sounds dangerous.
beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)There are so many wrongs here, where does one start?
Paladin
(28,243 posts)All that asshole did was articulate what a lot of conservative knuckle-draggers believe......
displacedtexan
(15,696 posts)Maybe I should get a dragon tattoo while I'm at it.
Asshole.