"Homosexuals are sexual predators"

[Omaha Steve]

Take action here: http://www.change.org/petitions/view/tell_mecklenburg_county_board_censure_anti-gay_politician_who_called_lgbt_people_sexual_predators



While most Americans celebrated the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” Bill James, a County Commissioner in Mecklenburg, North Carolina, used it as an opportunity to bash LGBT people.

“Homosexuals are sexual predators,” James wrote. “Allowing homosexuals to serve in the U.S. military with the endorsement of the Mecklenburg County Commission ignores a host of serious problems related to maintaining U.S. military readiness and effectiveness, not the least of which is the current Democrat plan to allow homosexuals (male and female) to share showers with those they are attracted to.”

It’s not the first time Commissioner James has used his spot on the County Board to promote anti-gay bigotry. During debate over a domestic partnership bill, Commissioner James called homosexuality a “crime against nature” that should be prosecuted by police.

And last year, Commissioner James turned to a colleague whose son died from complications from AIDS, and called the son “a homo.” He then compared homosexuality to alcoholism, and argued that all gay people bring AIDS on themselves.

We can’t let this kind of hate speech by public officials go unanswered – and we have a chance in the next few days to do something about it.

Right now, the rest of the county commission is publicly debating whether to censure James. Condemnation by the commission would send a strong signal that bigotry by elected officers holds no place in our society.

Thousands of people from Mecklenburg and around the country already speaking out. Join them by signing the petition to the Mecklenburg County Board and tell them to censure James for his anti-gay attacks:

http://www.change.org/petitions/view/tell_mecklenburg_county_board_censure_anti-gay_politician_who_called_lgbt_people_sexual_predators?alert_id=uezSJFIOjS_STllEZWehI&me=aa

Thanks for taking action,

The Change.org team

[flvegan]

1. I will never, even if I lived 1,000 years, understand this sort of "thinking"

How is it possible for someone to be so stupid?

[justiceischeap]

2. Fear and ignorance wrapped into one big ball of insecurity (eom)

[Skittles]

5. last gasp of a dying breed

well, let's hope so

[brewens]

3. Maybe he considers a lot of the right-wing sexual predators he knows

to be gay, and doesn't understand the difference?

[Fearless]

4. Sounds like he's insecure in the shower to me...

:rofl:

[Rhythm]

6. Bill James has been a pustule on the ass of the Queen City for a long, long time...

He has a history of being a homobigoted prat.

[Omaha Steve]

7. Kick

[lonestarnot]

8. What an asshole crackpot.

[Zephie]

9. Signed and twittered

:hi: