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Gay Hotelier Mati Weiderpass Defends Hosting Ted Cruz In Impassioned New York Observer Op-Ed
The Huffington Post ^ | May 11, 2015 | By JamesMichael Nichols

Posted on 05/11/2015 3:21:50 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Openly gay New York hotelier Mati Weiderpass penned an op-ed this week, lashing out at "gay extremists" for protests surrounding a discussion he hosted with presidential hopeful Ted Cruz in late April.

Weiderpass and longtime gay business partner Ian Reisner are owners of the OUT NYC Hotel and 80 percent of the commercial property in New York's Fire Island Pines, among other properties patronized by the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community. The two ignited large-scale backlash last month when they played hosts to a "fireside chat" with notoriously anti-gay presidential hopeful Sen. Ted Cruz in front of about a dozen people.

Despite apologies from the businessmen, the queer community still organized a protest outside of the OUT NYC hotel in late April. In wake of this, Weiderpass is once again changing his tune surrounding the meeting with Cruz. In a lengthy op-ed published in The New York Observer, the openly gay businessman calls those attacking him on social media "gay extremists."

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1 posted on 05/11/2015 3:21:50 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Don’t worry, Mr. Weiderpass, we have plenty of FReepers who think if you just talk with a liberal, you are tainted for life.

This type of “ideological cleansing” is disgusting, whether it comes from liberals or conservatives.


2 posted on 05/11/2015 3:27:09 PM PDT by Erik Latranyi (Walker Derangement Syndrone -- alive and well on FR!!!!)
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To: Erik Latranyi

Really is revealing as to who the intolerant people are.


3 posted on 05/11/2015 3:33:48 PM PDT by conservativejoy (We Can Elect Ted Cruz! Pray Hard, Work Hard, Trust God!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The tide seems to be turning....


4 posted on 05/11/2015 3:34:09 PM PDT by struggle
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To: Erik Latranyi

Whats disgusting is propping up liberals as if they were something other than evil POS that want us quite literally dead. See Barry’s bomber buddy for details.


5 posted on 05/11/2015 3:35:15 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
I always find it entertaining when liberals turn on each other.

If someone ever discovers a "gay gene" and people start aborting babies because the have it, liberals' heads will literally explode.

And no, I don't mean figuratively, I mean literally.


6 posted on 05/11/2015 3:42:12 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Continues)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It’s amusing that while the gays are attacking each other about the conservative ‘threat’, the Muslims they’re ignoring want them dead.


7 posted on 05/11/2015 3:54:48 PM PDT by JJ_Folderol (Diagonally parked in a parallel universe...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Good luck with that. The left is the most untolerant group out there!
Don’t believe me? Just look at every communist, socialist, fascist, dictatatorship out there. ALL LEFTIST!


8 posted on 05/11/2015 3:56:24 PM PDT by vpintheak (Call the left what they are - regressive control-freaks)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Being against gay marriage is not hating gays or whatever. I do have gay friends. One couple is married. I am torn on the issue and if pressed, I would be in favor. BUT. That’s me and ONLY me. I can be against it because of my religion BUT we don’t live in a theocracy. If it’s right or wrong it is still not up for me to judge. That’s God’s domain. What I don’t agree with is a ham fisted court system that just makes declaration of laws and completely ignore the voting public and existing laws. It never occurs to the liberals that a conservative administration can use the same powers.

I will say this. I am 100% sick and tired of being ruled over by robe wearing tyrants behind a bench and a lawless racist president.


9 posted on 05/11/2015 3:56:34 PM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: JJ_Folderol

Because the alligator will eat them last. Just ask one.


10 posted on 05/11/2015 3:57:08 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Bubba_Leroy

Not seeing a downside.


11 posted on 05/11/2015 3:58:07 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Bubba_Leroy

They will never fund or allow such a gene to be found, because even if it was true, they would fear pre-emptive abortion or counseling because people can now know that their child is at risk for developing SSA, and they can’t allow it. FTR, I don’t believe that genetics hardwires behavior, I do believe it might increase the likelihood, though not guarantee, that someone has an increased risk of developing Same-Sex Attraction, such as only select people seem to be at increased risk for actually becoming addicted to alcohol.


12 posted on 05/11/2015 4:06:36 PM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: JJ_Folderol
" the Muslims they’re ignoring want them dead."
13 posted on 05/11/2015 4:14:59 PM PDT by Reverend Wright (UK election 2015: How sweet it is.)
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To: JJ_Folderol

The muzzie community is riddled with gay sex! Do some searching and take a look at what some of the sub-human allah akbar screamers do to the “pretty boys” in their off time from killing , maiming and stealing wealth from others. The whole theocracy is twisted...women are considered filthy so until they marry casual gay sex is just okee-dokee...don’t kid yourself these animals are as perverted as can be and this reflects upon their whole following since it was implemented from the tip of a sword. To HELL with islam period....This BS that muzzie,s hate fags dead is a non-truth and nothing but a distraction and waste of breathe while they continue with their creep into our republic. keep your powder dry


14 posted on 05/11/2015 4:15:35 PM PDT by mythenjoseph (Separation of powers)
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To: Erik Latranyi

Both of you miss the point, Gay extremists aren’t really pro-gay, they are anti-God.

Gay extremists can’t stand judgement and they feel judged by Christians and their God.

Christians don’t hate Gays, they hate the act of sin, not the sinner.

Sin is a hate crime against God.


15 posted on 05/11/2015 6:40:05 PM PDT by dila813
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To: mythenjoseph

>> The muzzie community is riddled with gay sex! <<

Years ago I was told that most of the suicide bombers were homosexual and that by dying in the process of killing enemies was the only way they could get to paradise.

Recently, an article here mentioned that those men selected as bombers were repeatedly raped by their leaders for the same reason.

This is not simply anathema to civilisation, but institutionalised evil at it’s worst.


16 posted on 05/11/2015 7:43:10 PM PDT by JJ_Folderol (Diagonally parked in a parallel universe...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

He said he was sorry in an effort to mollify the social justice warriors; now that he realizes nothing but his bankruptcy is good enough for them, he’s fighting back.


17 posted on 05/11/2015 8:01:29 PM PDT by tbw2
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18 posted on 05/11/2015 8:16:46 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: dila813
Both of you miss the point, Gay extremists aren’t really pro-gay, they are anti-God.

I am not totally disagreeing, but it is not just gay extremists....it is liberal extremists who want to "purge" their ranks of anyone who dares speak to a conservative.

We have that among our own on FR. Walker hired a Romney foreign policy hand that Cruz was courting, but the die-hard Cruz supporters are now saying this means Walker supports RomneyCare and ObamaCare, etc.

It is that type of "purity" that I oppose from either side.

19 posted on 05/12/2015 3:56:20 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (President Walker - Attorney General Cruz (enforcing immigration laws for real))
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To: mythenjoseph

And yet they kill hundreds or thousands of people who are homosexual. Also, Muslims don’t count raping someone as sex either. Pretty much those who are homosexual are considered expendable to them, which is worse than you can say for most Christians.


20 posted on 05/12/2015 4:27:55 AM PDT by Morpheus2009
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