On Monday Bob Giuda, the former Marine pilot who’s hoping to become New Hampshire’s next Republican congressman, told a group of Riviera College students how permitting gay marriage would open the door to all sorts of hooliganism: “What’s going to happen next? Men and sheep? Women and dogs? … The point was, it’s not to our good as a nation or society to institutionalize relationships that do not involve a man and a woman for the protection of a family.” Now, he says, while his sentiment could have been better expressed, it’s not like he’s sorry for what he said.
“I see where it could be taken out of context and people could take offense at it,” he he says now. And he totally didn’t mean to insult the gays; he supports their civil union law!
All better now?
Samwise
That’s some nice logic: gay marriage will lead to bestiality and the breakdown of society. But gay civil unions are totally fine. WTF.
Sug Night
Let’s ask this knucklehead’s wife about “women and dogs.”
RomanHans
Bob Giuda is running for Congress? What’s next? Are we going to elect a taint president?
Cam
Thats like one of those typical B.S. apologies of “I’m sorry you were upset….not sorry for what I said, but sorry you were upset.”
Not all bigots wear white hoods.
David
Marriage is between two people who decide on FREE WILL to get married. Dogs, cats, and Sheep do not have free will. And I’ve never known a dog, cat or sheet to utter the words, “I do.” Comparing gay marriage to a marriage between a man and a turtle is not only completely ludicrous, it’s the dumbest analogy anyone could make. But since right-wing Republicans are stupid anyway, I say, keep making those comparisons. It only helps our side.
Leesa
Taken out of context my ass, he said exactly what he meant to say!!! This was nothing more that a purposeful insult to gays everywhere, don’t try to bullshit your way out of your comments because you see your political life dying before your eyes for your discriminatory, biased, sickening comments.
For the record bestiality has absolutely nothing to do with gay marriage, it is a rape of an animal, who cannot give consent. It is sick and disgusting and I really have to question people who actually sit around and think about it. Because he must think about it, in order to speak about it.
Protection of the family? Families come in all shapes, sizes, and colors. If you want to protect families then you need to support all the different types of families that exist in this country, not just the one that you agree with, but all families. Just because a GLBT family is not what you consider normal doesn’t mean that it isn’t nor does your opinion bar or change the fact that it is indeed a family.
Bill
New Hampshire does not even HAVE a civil unions law.
They have marriage equality.
Joe Mustich, JP
Silly sexually phobic flat earthers just need to find another issue to focus their time and energy on in the 21st century.
Onward, Joe Mustich, Justice of the Peace,
Washington, Connecticut, USA.
As a justice of the peace, I perform non-religious civil marriage ceremonies for opposite-sex and same-sex couples all the time in CT. Kudos to CT.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
Bob Giuda: You have a HUGE freaking cranium! just what exactaly is in there? Certainly isn’t brain matter……..
Mr. Enemabag Jones
Men and sheep? Women and dogs?
That’s pretty specific. Somebody needs to check this guy’s internet search history.
jeffree
Poor man has the Alzheimers disease & has confused bestiality with bisexuality & (retail chain) Best Buy — yet again !
Instead of political office he needs long term care in a “extended care” facility.
gilber
i don’t know what bestiality is about in his book,but in mine it is certainly sexual contact with ANYTHING not having the same organic structure ,composition and functions.therefore,i also don’t like bestiality.
R. Moon
I have known Bob Guida for 35 years. Having spoken to him on this subject, I have shown him that all people should get married, gay, or what ever so that they can suffer going through crappy divorces. Its only fair.
Bob is a reasonable man and I also think that he was baited in those comments.
I would follow Bob Guida to hell and back.
Michael
Okay, Bob f**cked up. The comment was outrageous to say the least. The saddest part is that this is just a big distraction. Whatever his personal ethical position is on the subject, the bottom line is that Bob is a Constitutionalist and believes in Equal Protection under the law.
To many of us straight people, we don’t care if gay marriage is called marriage or civil union. I don’t care if my own marriage is called marriage or civil union: I was married by a judge, not in a church, so what’s the difference? We need to come to some consensus here, people, some compromise. Gay people need to accept that, at least for now, legal recognition of their commitments to each other (and rights ensuing from that legal recognition)is enough and not push for the marriage moniker. Straight people need to drop the ridiculous notion that there should be a Constitutional Amendment defining marriage.
The bottom line: Bob Giuda is NOT a hater. He believes in the 10th Amendment, that the federal government has no Constitutional Power to decide this matter: that it should be left up to the states, and that all workers, all citizens should have equal protections under the LAW and receive equal pay for equal work.