Several residents of California’s Newport Beach are requesting the resignation of a councilman who felt compelled to use city letterhead to jot down a series of homophobic screeds.
Scott Peotter allegedly cut-and-pasted the city seal into an email to constituents that’s positively flush with cringe-worthy quotables. Choicier bits include: “The Supreme Court (that would be 5 out of 9 guys in black robes) decided 10 days ago to overturn 5,000 years of Judeo-Christian tradition, by redefining and allowing gay marriage. All of a sudden, a lot of the ‘important stuff’ of the city didn’t seem so important.”
Another email was even gutsier in its contempt: “I do find it interesting that the homosexual movement adopted the rainbow as their symbol, as it was God’s symbol that he wouldn’t destroy the world by flood again… Maybe they are ‘wishful thinking.’”
Related: City Councilman Dave Thune’s Assistant Called His Opponent “That Gay Guy”: Derogatory Or Just Dumb?
How about we take this to the next level?
Our newsletter is like a refreshing cocktail (or mocktail) of LGBTQ+ entertainment and pop culture, served up with a side of eye-candy.
According to Councilman Keith Curry, Peotter had been warned about using the city seal before, but he’s clearly a bird who cannot be caged.
On the heels of another council member asking the District Attorney to investigate, Peotter wasted no time in saying: “It was never my intent to inflame the community, LGBT community, or the citizens of Newport Beach.”
Jeff Laterno, a Newport Beach resident, told Peotter, “ You should resign at the end of this meeting after apologizing first to the LGBTQ community and second to the citizens of Newport Beach.”
While he’s at it, he should apologize to California residents for invoking a flood in the middle of a four-year drought.
h/t: CBS
Kenneth Myrnes
seems like they all are “coming out of their closet” these days
Cam
That guy has a SCORCHING case of gayface, and probably herpes.
Joseph Dudley Manabat
Come out…Come out from the Closet…!
Bauhaus
@Cam:
Bitch gives Liberace a run for the money.
Ladbrook
If that’s his daughter, and if there’s a god, that beautiful little baby will grow up to be a really loud-and-proud lesbian.
GG
“It was never my intent to inflame the community, LGBT community, or the citizens of Newport Beach.”
Translation: “I expected to be able to spew hate and tell horrific lies about a historically oppressed minority without having to deal with any backlash.”
Ogre Magi
another christian goon
Dev.C
What are these idiots talking about? christians didn’t invent marriage, the concept of marriage is as old as civilized man, Christians, Jews, Muslims, hindu and whoever else has a gripe with gays, don’t own the right to control what marriage can only be.