NC Senator James Forrester Tells Town Hall Gays Die Early, Wants Them to Adopt 'Normal' Lifestyle: VIDEO
Igor Volsky at Think Progress LGBT posts a video of a North Carolina town hall last night at which Senator (and medical doctor) James Forrester (R) professed his love for gays, and then said people needed to reach out to gay people to get them to change back to a "normal" lifestyle.
Said Forrester:
"I’ve got a few homosexual patients and I treat them just the same as anybody else. I love them perhaps even more because I know they are going to die at least 20 years earlier and it’s something I have no control over and we need to reach out to them to try to get them to change their lifestyle and back to the normal lifestyle which we can accept."
The town hall was attended by five other state lawmakers to discuss proposed constitutional amendments in North Carolina, including one that would ban same-sex marriage.
Forrester is the lead sponsor of the NC amendment to ban same-sex marriage, which would ban any recognition of any “domestic legal union” other than a marriage between an opposite-sex couple.
Watch, AFTER THE JUMP...
This is clearly the GOPs way of culling the herd of gay men because studies show men who are married, live longer! So that obviously explains what he says he observes, and he must want us to keep dying younger.
Posted by: scollingsworth | Sep 9, 2011 6:19:16 PM
The "gay lifespan" myth is basically bad science from Paul Cameron recycled again and again in the homophobic press. Doesn't matter that the study was totally bogus and based on unscientific statistics. He put it out there and it's recycled ad nauseam.
http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2007/04/09/280
Posted by: KevinVT | Sep 9, 2011 7:12:43 PM
Yes, ladies and gentlemen!
Welcome to Rick Perry's America!
Posted by: Brains | Sep 9, 2011 8:06:07 PM
"the normal lifestyle which WE can accept"
That's not love, Senator.
Posted by: radioredrafts | Sep 9, 2011 10:38:46 PM
Dear Doctor, shove your condescending tolerance up your pity.
Posted by: Jay | Sep 9, 2011 10:51:34 PM
Keep fighting senator. Just because this country is going to he'll in a hand basket doesn't mean all the masses want to. Thanks for fighting for those of us who want this country back where it needs to be. Away fro
People who care nothing more than about themselves and what the country can do for them and not what they shod be doing for it.
Posted by: Jim | Sep 10, 2011 9:01:37 AM
@Rick: Nope, not derrick from philly or anyone else, I've been posting on here for a few years now under the exact same name with exactly the same email. I'm not from the northeast nor the south, I'm from the midwest (and we have our own huge share of bigoted, old, fat, white men).
Also, I'm not black.
Here's the deal, it's all about statistics:
I would never say "old, fat, bigoted, BLACK men" because that's almost never the case. If it were, I'd say it. And because these men ARE from the south, I have to state the obvious, since most of these types of ignorant Repub characters come from where?
The south!
OK, recap....
Most Republican politicians are:
1. Old
2. Fat
3. White
4. Male
5. Bigoted
6. Southern
Although a notable few which ARE NOT from the south are:
1. Middle Aged
2. In-shape
3. White
4. Female
5. Bigoted
Ok, got it? There might be a test later, so study up!
Posted by: johnny | Sep 10, 2011 10:10:56 AM
Crystal clear brilliant deep thinking well researched compassionate are a few of the words that come to me that describe what is missing from his thoughts. This MF possesses a brain the size of
a walnut. I believe his functions are mainly regulated through his brain stem, the most basic, primitive part of the brain. Dude appears to be a normal functioning male, but really is in a "waking coma", and on invisible life support apparatus. That's my august medical opinion. Doesn't matter that I'm not a doctor.
Posted by: kodiak | Sep 10, 2011 10:56:50 AM
The Eskimos had the right idea !
Lets find a small but traveling ice flow, collect Nancy Kern and James Forrester plant the comfortably in place and shove them out to sea,.
By, By, bigots,
Hello to a slow rather cold death, it is actually more than they deserve!
Posted by: EJ | Sep 10, 2011 11:03:51 AM
Would love to know what the woman sitting next to him was thinking, she seems cool and more than a bit embarrassed by the whole situation, Anyone know who she is ?
Posted by: EJ | Sep 10, 2011 1:18:19 PM
Only the good die young.
Posted by: Steve | Sep 10, 2011 1:35:17 PM
I wake up every morning, eat my breakfast, go to work, come home have dinner, see my friends, have a drink at the pub...HOW is this not 'normal'??....what cause in the privacy of my bedroom I take it up the ass from a person of the same sex..GROW UP...this is the 21st Century..I don't care what he does in his bedroom so why should he care what I do in mine.
Posted by: Jamie | Sep 10, 2011 11:56:08 PM
@Jack M
NO WAY. I will NOT let that slide.
Veterinarians are IN NO WAY inferior to physicians. We have the same amount and level of schooling, and veterinary school admission is much more competitive. Veterinarians treat those unable to speak for themselves, and also work to safeguard the health of the human population through food safety, epidemiology and medical research. We do all this paid at FAR below the value of of our contributions and expertise.
Insult this jerk all you want, but don't you dare drag my profession through the mud to do so.
Posted by: JD | Sep 11, 2011 5:47:57 PM