Carl Paladino: I Have 'Difficulty' Deciding if Homosexuality Is a Choice

Dan82 · Oct 11, 2010

http://blogs.abcnews.com/george/201...ty-deciding-if-homosexuality-is-a-choice.html

That's what the Republican nominee for governor of New York told me this morning when I asked if he thinks people have a choice to be gay.

“I’ve had difficulty with that. My nephew tells me he didn’t have that choice. And I believe it’s a very, very difficult life for a young person,” Carl Paladino told me. “I believe that young people should not necessarily be exposed to that without some really, really mature background first before, so they can learn to deal with it. It is a very difficult thing. And I sensitize with it totally.”

The GOP candidate told “GMA” that he saw a gay pride parade in Toronto and said it “wasn’t pretty.”

“It was a bunch of very extreme type people, wearing bikini type outfits, grinding at each other and doing these gyrations and I certainly wouldn’t let my young children see that,” he said.

"We have extremists in every walk of life, people that go that extra - they have to display, they have to flaunt themselves. Generally my remarks are talking about [Cuomo's] acceptance of his activity of taking his children to go see a gay parade," Paladino said.

The Tea Party backed candidate drew fire last night following remarks before Orthodox Jewish leaders because he told them he does not want his children “to be brainwashed into thinking that homosexuality is an equally valid and successful option- it isn't...

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Shevanel · Oct 11, 2010

Well hopefully people have difficulty in voting him into office.

Zach1992 · Oct 11, 2010

Carl has screwed any chance he had at winning in the last month.

excuseyou77 · Oct 11, 2010

It's horrible enough regardless, but it's twice as disgusting for someone to spout this type of backwards bullshit when they're RELATED to a gay person.

IThinkInCircles · Jul 13, 2011

What a ballsy a-hole.

thedreamwatch · Jul 13, 2011

Shevanel said: ↑

Well hopefully people have difficulty in voting him into office.
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Truth ^

And I'd just like to say I'm having difficulty "sensitizing" to his concerns. *major eyeroll*

Shevanel · Jul 13, 2011

Please, don't bring back threads about people that don't matter anymore (not that he mattered much to begin with), but I literally was like "I DON'T HAVE DIFFICULTY IN DECIDING IF YOU MATTER, CARL PALADINO.", until I saw that it was a resurrected thread xD

thedreamwatch · Jul 13, 2011

Shevanel said: ↑

Please, don't bring back threads about people that don't matter anymore (not that he mattered much to begin with), but I literally was like "I DON'T HAVE DIFFICULTY IN DECIDING IF YOU MATTER, CARL PALADINO.", until I saw that it was a resurrected thread xD
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Oh gosh, I didn't even see that :eusa_doh:

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