Homophobic remarks cost Buttars chairmanship [View All]

Source: 365gay.com and Associated Press

(Salt Lake City, Utah) A Utah state senator has been kicked off the judicial committee he chaired after he drew criticism for comparing gay activists to radical Muslims in an interview.


Sen. Chris Buttars, R-West Jordan, also told former local television reporter Reed Cowan, an openly gay documentary producer who now works at a Miami station, that gay activists are “probably the greatest threat to America going down.”

The comments drew calls for Buttars’ resignation in Utah and elsewhere. The Washington, D.C.-based Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender civil rights organization, said that by Friday more than 15,000 e-mails had been sent to Utah Senate President Michael Waddoups, R-Taylorsville, demanding that he condemn Buttars’ remarks.

Waddoups did not condemn Buttars’ statements and said he kicked Buttars off the committee primarily as a way to draw attention away from him. In a brief news conference Friday, Waddoups declined to say what comments - if any - Buttars made that he and other Republicans disagreed with.



Read more: http://www.365gay.com/news/homophobic-remarks-cost-buttars-chairmanship/

---

Darn open mouth insert foot comments. The rest of the article is a fascinating piece on a man on the fringe of reality. Well, outer fringe. Different planet, maybe...