Michael Brown Quotes
The Conservative party has a serious problem. They are stuffed full of homosexuals … yet they want to gain votes by being opposed to homosexuality and appeal to the homophobic and older voters.
Michael Brown, British Member of Parliament (Conservative), Sky News, August 2, 2000
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Stanek was a virulent homophobe who criticized her Republican Party for tolerating homosexuals.
Islam forbids homosexuality and Sharia (Islamic religious law) prescribes death as the penalty for homosexuality. At that time Iran was a Muslim theocracy and if there were overt homosexuality that was officially discovered, the heretics would be killed. The logic of the government was that since they had killed the homosexuals, there were none left. At the same time all the research showed that while Muslim homosexuality was slightly less than Christian, it was still quite significant in all Muslim cultures that had been studied. If the President was to be believed, Iran was the only exception.
This statement gave the audience quite a laugh. There has been a small percentage of homosexuals in every society known to man—especially the ones who condemn it the most. In order for those opposing societies and cultures to speak about homosexuality, write about it and pass laws against it, there must have of course been some homosexuality. In the case of Iran and its Persian tradition and the Arab tradition there has been historically not only open homosexuality in different periods as in Ancient Greece, but it is documented by some of the great Persian and Arab literature. See {624479}.
The senator vehemently opposed the nomination of a lesbian on the grounds of her sexual preference. He never distinguished between different means to accomplish his objective. Gay bashing is not only cruel, but endangers the lives of many gays by firing up homophobes. In {622160} he used legislative procedures to try to block the appointment of a lesbian nominee. This might have achieved his end, but his verbal, public gay bashing had no purpose other than firing up his fundamentalist religious base at the cost of potentially inciting violence in some extremists. Helms never did explain how a homosexual in a government position endangered the values of a family—even a family which opposed homosexuality.
He tried to make homosexual acts criminal by enforcing an old Virginia law against sodomy, but was overruled unanimously by a 3 judge panel of the Virginia Appellate court, based on a clear Supreme Court precedent of Lawrence v. Texas, 2003. Most political analysis believe that Cuccinelli knew perfectly well that this would be unconstitutional but proposed it and went to court to pander to the ultra conservative base of his party.
This quotation is hardly believable, even for an ultra extreme, evangelical, Christian, fundamentalist. His paranoia and homophobia went so far as to claim that somehow the only gay Congressman, Jared Polis, was going to bankrupt Christians who did not endorse his homosexuality. How he might do this Klingenschmitt never explained. But then to associate Polis with the Muslim Fundamentalist Terrorist organization ISIS—which executes homosexuals—and claim that Polis would behead Christians in America was over the top. The quotation illustrates the freedom of speech allowed in American political campaigning where the most absurd, libelous, falsehoods are allowed, as well as the fact that an obvious unbalanced person can freely run for office.
Michael DeWayne Brown served as the first undersecretary of Emergency Preparedness and Response, a division of the Department of Homeland Security. This position is generally referred to as the director or administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). He was appointed in January 2003 by President George W. Bush and resigned following his controversial handling of Hurricane Katrina in September 2005. Brown first had been appointed as general counsel at FEMA. After the 9/11 terrorist attacks President Bush nominated Brown to become deputy director of FEMA. Brown currently hosts a radio talk show on 850 KOA in Denver, Colorado.
