Dave Agema, the notoriously anti-gay RNC committeeman who, in the past has said that gays falsely claim people with AIDS as their lovers in order to cheat the system and get free medical benefits, now appears to have sided with Russia’s anti-gay propaganda law. The Washington Blade reports:
Dave
Agema, former member of the Michigan House, expressed support for the
controversial measure via Facebook posting on Tuesday, according to two
sources who are able to see the message and an apparent screenshot of
the link.
“Read their law. Common sense in Russia,” Agema apparently wrote in a link to a Jan. 6 posting from the Illinois Family Institute, titled, “Russia’s Anti-Propaganda Law Riles Pro-Homosexuality Crowd.”
The posting mitigates the threat of the
anti-gay law in Russia by noting it emphasizes that it prohibits
propaganda directed to minors, saying the fine incurred for breaking the
law “hardly sounds unreasonable…for trying to inculcate other people’s
children with their subjective beliefs about sexual morality.”
Meanwhile, Agema’s over-the-top opposition to homosexuality has again
ruffled feathers with members of his own party. Dennis Lennox, a
Republican precinct delegate in Grand Traverse County, blasted Agema for
siding with Vladimir Putin's oppressive regime:
“This is outrageous that a leader of the
National Republican Party, my political party, is siding with an
autocratic regime that believes in arresting political opponents,
censoring reporters, jailing dissidents and eliminating free
speech,” Lennox said. “Russia and the Putin regime — other than maybe
Iran, North Korea and China, is the last regime the Republican Party or
one of its leaders should associate itself with.”
Lennox hopes the RNC brings up Agema’s position on Russia’s anti-gay
laws during its winter meeting in Washington D.C. later this year.
Former execuctive director of GOProud Jimmy LaSalvia also spoke out against Agema:
“Every time Agema or someone said
something like this — not as bad as this — they’ve always said, ‘We need
to treat everyone with dignity and respect on issues like that, he
doesn’t speak for the RNC, etc.,’” LaSalvia said. “They’ve never
denounced what he said and said he’s wrong, and that’s what they need to
do, but nobody over there seems to have the guts to denounce him.
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