Anti-gay statements didn’t deserve rebuke from GOP, candidate says

Dan82 · Aug 20, 2010

http://iowaindependent.com/41571/anti-gay-statements-didnt-deserve-gop-rebuke-candidate-says

Republican state Senate hopeful Dave Leach, who has garnered headlines over the past year due to his close relationship with the man convicted of murdering Kansas abortion provider George Tiller, says the Republican Party of Iowa erred when it denounced a state House candidate who called AIDS a punishment from God for homosexuality.

Jeremy Walters, who is challenging incumbent Democratic state Rep. Kevin McCarthy of Des Moines in House District 67, last week wrote that when the Bible says homosexuals should be “put to death; their blood shall be upon them,” the blood is really AIDS. When the statements were made public they were greeted with outrage by One Iowa, the state’s largest LGBT-rights group, and denounced by Republican Party of Iowa Chairman Matt Strawn. When the party later discovered Walters was scheduled to volunteer at the GOP Iowa State Fair booth, his invitation was rescinded...

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Anti-gay statements didn’t deserve rebuke from GOP, candidate says

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