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By Alan Gomez, USA TODAY New York Republican gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino drew rebukes Monday for comments he made over the weekend, saying children shouldn't be "brainwashed into thinking that homosexuality" is acceptable. He said activities at gay pride parades are "disgusting." "That's not how God created us," Paladino told a group of Orthodox Jewish leaders Sunday, "and that's not the example that we should be showing our children."
NYC ATTACKS: Eight suspects charged The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) said Paladino's comments put gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people "in harm's way." The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force said they "incite violence against people for being who they are." To political observers, the remarks were the latest in a series of statements that could cement Paladino's image — good or bad — in the minds of New York voters. Grant Reeher, a political science professor at Syracuse University, said voters rarely establish an image of a candidate based on one statement or one vote. Instead, they take a series of comments or votes to create that image. The comments Sunday were not Paladino's first controversy. He forwarded to friends e-mails portraying President Obama as a pimp and first lady Michelle Obama as a prostitute, then refused to disavow them. He has called his Democratic opponent, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, "despicable" and told a reporter "I'll take you out" during a heated exchange. "You might take a look at one (comment) and say, 'Here's Carl Paladino being a little quirky,' " Reeher said. "You start to do this over and over and over again, even when you're not under the heat of someone up in your face, and it begins to build a very clear impression." Jul Thompson, chief administrator of TEA New York, a Tea Party group that supports Paladino, said the multimillionaire developer from Buffalo won't lose any supporters based on his comments on homosexuality. "These are just distractions," Thompson said. "I don't fault Mr. Paladino for it. I fault the media for making an issue out of it." In several TV interviews Monday morning, Paladino said he didn't regret the comments. Groups such as GLAAD say Paladino's comments were particularly disturbing because they came within hours of eight people being arraigned in an attack on a gay man and two gay teens in the Bronx on Oct. 3, and three weeks after a Rutgers University freshman committed suicide after classmates secretly videotaped him in a sexual encounter with a male student. "Preaching hate from our pulpits, in our politics or to our pupils is simply unacceptable," the Rev. Rebecca Voelkel of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force said in a written statement. "It literally endangers lives." In a Siena College poll released last Tuesday, likely voters supported Cuomo 56%-32%. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/2010-10-11-paladino-new-york_N.htm
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If your claims are true, why not point to these "statements" and "mailers" providing appropriate citation?
Regard$,
--MJ
We now live with fictionalized history that is being reconstructed to fit political needs. ... Without a few insensitive intellectuals... there might be no one left to notice what really happened as opposed to what we are solemnly told we are supposed to think went on. -- Paul Gottfried
At 02:36 PM 10/12/2010, you wrote:
Again, Democrats are not Marxists, Sucialists, or Communists. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat again.
And you are wrong again. Paladino said horrible, homophobic, disgusting hateful things,
and he sent out pornographic mysogynist and racist emails. This angry hypocrytical jerk is unfit to be Governor of New York.
Vote for Andrew Cuomo!
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