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SC Senator Jim DeMint Doesn’t Want Pro-LGBT U.S. Ambassadors Anywhere In The World

Republican South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint wants to deny Mari Carmen Aponte’s appointment as ambassador to El Salvador. Why? Because Aponte published a June 2011 op-ed praising the El Salvadorian government for its LGBT legal protections—which, as DeMint claims, “promoted the homosexual lifestyle” and tried to “impose a pro-gay agenda” with Aponte’s tyrannical request that neighbors discuss LGBT issues with one another.

This should come as no surprise from a man who thinks that openly gay people should not be allowed to teach. Too bad we only award Douche of the Week to people like DeMint on Fridays.

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By: Daniel Villarreal
On: Nov 21, 2011
Tagged: El Salvador, Jim DeMint, Mari Carmen Aponte

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No. 1 · the crustybastard
QUEERTY MAD LIBS: SC Senator Jim DeMented Doesn’t ____________ Pro-LGBT US Ambassadors Anywhere in the World.

C’mon kids, bring the wit!

Nov 21, 2011 at 11:46 am · @Reply · Flag
No. 2 · doug105
Another shining example of why I will not vote republican.And before someone pipes up that the Democrats have idiots also,for every Ruben Diazs there sames to be 5-10 if not more like Jim Demint in the rethug party.

Nov 21, 2011 at 12:01 pm · @Reply · Flag
No. 3 · doug105
seems

Nov 21, 2011 at 12:36 pm · @Reply · Flag
No. 4 · Riker
@the crustybastard: They accidentally the headline.

Nov 21, 2011 at 1:26 pm · @Reply · Flag
No. 5 · Ian
@doug105: I’m with you. I actually don’t like either party at this point, but the GOP is bat-shit-crazy and way more anti-LGBTQ than the Dems.

Nov 21, 2011 at 6:03 pm · @Reply · Flag
No. 6 · the crustybastard
@Riker:

LOL.

Nov 21, 2011 at 9:20 pm · @Reply · Flag
No. 7 · help
South Dakota senator hates gay people… no, wait, South Carolina. Okay. That makes sense.

Nov 21, 2011 at 11:52 pm · @Reply · Flag
No. 8 · Cam
And in a few decades he will be looked at just like people today look at the KKK and other bigots that fought against women’s suffrage, and civil rights for racial minorities. He’s just a burned out old gasbag wheezing out the last gasp of bigotry.

Nov 22, 2011 at 9:53 am · @Reply · Flag
No. 9 · Mav
Too bad nobody in El Salvador gives a flying rat’s ass what Jim DeMint thinks.

Nov 22, 2011 at 11:45 am · @Reply · Flag
No. 10 · andri
well he should then be furious at the us embassy in iceland
as they they did take part in the icelandic Gay Pride Parade
http://ambassadorblogiceland.b.....s-gay.html

Nov 25, 2011 at 12:02 pm · @Reply · Flag