IL GOP forces out party chair for supporting gay marriage (And the author is in a tizzy)

AMERICAblog-Gay ^ | MAy 8, 2013 | John Aravosis, editor

[2ndDivisionVet]

Illinois Republicans have just forced state party chair Pat Brady to resign because of his support for gay marriage.

What is this, Alabama?

Brady, rather famously, came out in support of gay marriage in January of this year, and even made phone calls to lawmakers urging them to support gay marriage legislation before the Illinois legislature.

And now he’s politically-dead, killed by a Republican party so permeated with hate and intolerance that even in a moderate-Republican state like Illinois, the GOP just couldn’t stomach having a fag-lover as party chair.

This is why I, an Illinois Republican, left my party 21 years ago and never looked back. Even back then, in 1992, the hate was too much. But now, in 2013, when 11 American states have already legalized gay marriage, Illinois Republicans are so hateful and bigoted that they would destroy a man for daring to speak out in favor of civil rights.

Of course, as the Chicago Tribune notes, the problem is social conservatives – i.e., the religious right – who are trying to take over Illinois politics. Good luck with that. Illinois isn’t Mississippi. Though the Illinois Republican party is sure doing a heck of an imitation of the Mississippi GOP, that only recently decided to oppose slavery, and has long had problems with homophobia, and blacks, and women....

[ravenwolf]

Yes, i would have said good riddance 21 years ago, John Aravosis must have still been in the closet then because i had not even heard of him and i say good riddance where Brady is concerned.

But then maybe if fag marriage would have been legal many years ago these creeps might not even be here, and i am sure glad my parents were not of the same sex or i would not be here either unless my dad turned queer and started chasing women.