Daryl Metcalfe, the Pennsylvania lawmaker who became internet famous last year when he had a panic attack and cried “I’m a heterosexual!” after a male colleague touched his hand, is pulling more dirty, antigay tricks.
Related: Watch this antigay GOP lawmaker go ballistic when colleague touches him
Metcalfe’s reelection campaign has come under fire this week after sending out a mailer attacking his Democratic opponent, Daniel Smith, Jr., for being married to a man.
CBS Pittsburgh reports:
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In the mailing, Metcalfe calls out Smith for being endorsed by “liberal gay activist groups,” and then uses a photo of Smith with Gov. Tom Wolf and another man, identified as Smith’s husband in quotation marks.
When asked by CBS Pittsburgh why he wrote the word husband in quotation marks, 55-year-old Metcalfe said, “Because that’s not what I’m calling him. That’s what he’s calling him. Marriage is between a man and a woman.”
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He added, “The majority of people that believe that marriage is between a man and a woman, I think some of them will certainly make a decision on what he’s advocating for and who’s supporting him.”
Smith, who was a was a life-long Republican before switching parties recently, calls Metcalfe’s mailer “sad” and “ignorant,” adding that when he first learned about it, “I felt sad that we’re in a world, especially when what happened over the weekend, someone has to resort to something like that.”
He also said that, as a lawmaker, Metclafe should respect marriage equality as “the law of the land,” saying, “That’s where we are now. There’s no quotes around it. He’s my husband.”
Watch that now infamous video of Metcalfe freaking after being touched by his male colleague below.
G-Man
What an ignorant little man!
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Countdown til this smcubags sexual underage boy scandal unfolds 10, 9,8,7,6,……
Vince
I have no doubt she’s hiding something. No one normal reacts that way to a simple touch or spends their life thinking of ways to hurt gay people like that. It always turns out same way.
draven
This is what Don Lemon is talking about. No one gets it like that though or it’s just overlooked in a “way” big way in USA in some aspects. This could be any person too of any ethnicity. Man in the Mirror.
fur_hunter
There is a line from Shakespeare’s Hamlet that applies here. “The lady doth protest too much, methinks.” Yeah. I think so. Total closet case.