Representative Patricia Todd is stirring up quite the controversy in Alabama with her pledge to out anti-gay lawmakers engaging in extramarital affairs. Todd alleges that her pledge has caused the posturing and rhetoric to die down, but that it has also incited some to start lobbing death threats her way – death threats that Todd is taking in an admirable amount of stride:
My life’s been threatened in the past couple of days. A lot of my friends are worried about my safety. The police are patrolling by my house more often. I’ve got an alarm system. I am being careful. But they’re not going to scare me back into my house. I’m not going to let them do that.
Todd still plans to honor her pledge and discusses the events surrounding her pledge and death threats in an interview with Michelangelo Signorile, which you can listen to AFTER THE JUMP…
