07.13.06
GOP Leader: Gay As ‘Natural As Pedophilia’
Greensboro, North Carolina The chair of Guilford County’s Republican Party is refusing to back down from comments that link homosexuality with pedophilia.
“In America today our churches have degraded their beliefs so much that the ordinary citizen sees no need to attend a worship service, because he sees and hears the same thing on Opra and Dr. Phil everyday. We now say that homosexuality is ok. That it is natural. Yes it is as natural as pedophilia,” Marcus Kindley wrote in an article on declining morals in America that appeared in GOP his blog, The Chairman’s Corner.
North Carolina Advocacy Coalition, an LGBT civil rights group has demanded a apology.
On Wednesday afternoon, after NCAC issued its demand for an apology Kindley amended his blog to say his views aren’t connected to the Republican Party.
But he is holding his ground, insisting that “never compared homosexuals to pedophiles.” Kindley says he was making an observation about American morals.
“I never attacked Homosexuals, I only made an observation about what is natural and what is not,” says Kindley.
Thursday morning Kindley appeared on a local radio show where he refused to apologize. During the interview he called homosexuality a “lifestyle choice” and compared being gay to the choice of being overweight.
Kindley’s views on homosexuality are not foreign to the N.C. Republican Party’s position.
The state party platform says: “We believe homosexual behavior is not normal and should not be taught as an acceptable ‘alternative’ lifestyle either in public education or in public policy.”