Republicans Say the Darndest Things: Gay Discrimination is Good

Retired Lt. Gordon Klingenschmitt (R)

Newly Elected 

Colorado State Representative

Mr. Klingenschmitt ordained by the Episcopal church, served as a Navy chaplain where he was a vocal opponent of repealing "Don't Ask. Don't Tell."  He refused a Navy directive that he treat gays civilly, calling the order a violation of his First Amendment rights.  To give credit to the U.S. Navy, Mr. Klingenschmitt was drummed out in 2006.  

This newly elected state legislator says that gay citizens "want your soul.  They want you to disobey God so that you go to Hell with them." 

He believes that the government has every right to discriminate against gay citizens.  "If your heart is full of corruption or sin or immorality--in this case, homosexuality--then you should be discriminated against."  In his world, gays cannot go to heaven and only those who can aspire to heaven are deserving of equal treatment by the government. "If they're not going to get eternal benefits in Heaven, why should we give them government rewards here on this earth?"

He once wrote that President Obama is possessed by demons and that he had attempted an unsuccessful exorcism-in-absentia on the President.

During his campaign, he decried the Employment Non-Discrimination Act as a "bathroom bill" that would permit men to use women's restrooms where they would "violate your wives' and daughters' privacy in every public restaurant in America."

Colorado elected him with nearly 70% of the vote.

I don't know what I find more unbelievable, that any mainstream, organized church would ordain him in the first place, especially the Episcopal church--one of the most liberal Christian sects--or that there were that many voters in Colorado who thought that rewarding his hate-filled brand of "Christianity" with a seat in their state legislature was a good idea.