Posted on 01/31/2006 12:01:40 PM PST by SonofLiberty1
Senator Catches Heat for 'Fruits' Comment Monday, January 30, 2006
WASHINGTON — Republican Sen. Sam Brownback, a potential presidential candidate, said Monday he meant no offense to homosexuals when he used the word "fruits" in a recent interview with Rolling Stone magazine.
In a lengthy profile titled "God's Senator," the magazine quotes the Kansas Republican as criticizing countries like Sweden that have legalized gay marriage.
"You'll know them by their fruits," Brownback said, quoting a biblical passage from Matthew 7:19.
Rolling Stone writer Jeff Sharlet said in the story, appearing in the magazine's current issue, that Brownback appeared to be calling gay Swedes fruits.
After gay and lesbian advocacy groups denounced the comments last week, Brownback issued a statement Monday saying his quote "was in no way referring to sexual orientation."
"While this biblical passage was pertinent to our overall conversation about faith and deeds, it apparently led the writer to believe I was making a joke," said Brownback, a frequent critic of gay marriage who is pushing a Constitutional amendment to define marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
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Wow, that's too bad. I thought he actually called them fruits. I'm disapointed.
I laughed. I'm sorry but the "journalist" ( Jeff Sharlet) is an idiot.
BURN HIM!!!!
Geez...can we just skip to the part where the Left-wingers are all either exiled or executed as a danger to Humanity and Logic?
I'm not kidding, either! When you can't even quote the Bible without having to apologize...
Too funny! ROTLF
Fruits is a better word than "Gays".
It is a vicious tactic they used.
-SoL1
wonder when the left will boycott fruit of the loom undapants.
I wish I could give an interview that would be national and printed verbatim.
it would certainly be a logical step in their mind.
-SoL1
Oh, he did. Just in a really clever way.
But of course he apologizes.
Can't someone, just one person one time, say something, and NOT apologize for it.
"No, that's exactly what I said and I meant it."
He was taken out of context.
They're just upset because the shoe fits, perfectly.
My favorite was the Majority Leader referring to 'Barney Fag'.
I don't think you can say fruit and underpants in the same sentence, can you?
Surely you're not suggesting the double entendre was accidental. I don't believe that for a minute.
He got his cake and ate it too.
By the lib's ignorance ye shall know them......
They don't want to do so. The frantic search for any statement that can even possibly be construed as offensive and then attempting to capitialize politically is their life's work.
A fruitless endeavor if there ever was one.
"Jeff Sharlet is an idiot."
It is most telling about the culture of the media that the reporter, the editors, and the fact checkers at Rolling Stone did not recognize one of the most well known Biblical passages in the Bible as a Biblical reference.
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