Dwight Kiefert, a Republican from Valley City, ND serving in the state House, is the first person to admit that he is neither a doctor nor a psychiatrist.
Of course, he’d never let a couple of minor details like that get in the way of sharing his esteemed insights into mental health.
Just hours after the Supreme Court ruled that same-sex marriages should be recognized by the entire nation, Kiefert took to Facebook to offer his medical psychiatric opinion:
Google it, he says.
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Dwight’s stance on the gays was hardly a secret — he’s previously said of homosexuality, “I don’t think that it’s normal. You can’t reproduce. I mean, a man and a woman is what it takes to make a child.”
Even so, his Facebook mini-rant seems to exhibit the telltale signs of a paranoid conspiracy theorist. But then again, we aren’t psychiatrists either.
When pressed on the since-deleted post, Kiefert said he didn’t think it was a “public statement,” adding “There’s a lot of question marks. Was what I read true? I don’t know. The bottom line is: Through my faith, I have to oppose it.”
House Majority Leader Al Carlson, R-Fargo, was quick to distance himself from his fellow representative. “Dwight speaks for himself. He has a lot of strong opinions,” Carlson said, emphasizing that he “absolutely” doesn’t agree that homosexuality is a mental illness. “That topic shouldn’t even be discussed.”
And the crazy train keeps on chugging.
via Inforum
Rory P. Rentmeester
They are misquoting. He said metally ill. Lol
John Capers
You must’ve mentally ill to be a republican legistrator, I guess
Bob Aswell
Translation: Adult Temper Tantrum.
Jared MacBride
Mental illness appears to be something this guy is an expert in.
Noel Hoklin
You are but what am I?
Will Glitzern
The uprising among all the RWNJ’s over the last few days is starting to depress me.
Mark Johnson
Ok. He been fuking his mama is the next headline. Suck fuk!!!
Darrin Stork
Hopefully this story will inspire higher voter turn out. Fight hate in the voting booth! Also, voting helps fight depression brought on by bigoted legislators.
Michael Davy
Twerp!
Chris
Having family who ARE, in fact, mentally ill, I find comments like his to be twice offensive.
Gay folk are quite clearly not mentally ill. So his use of 40-year-old quackery is simply insulting to all GLBTQ people.
But that mental illness continues to be used as a way of casting shade on people shows how far we have yet to go vis-a-vis understanding and tolerance.
So to abuse a quote from Star Trek, “Mental illness stigma: our final frontier.”
JessPH
Why do these cretins always delete their tweets or posts?
billywonka
Call it what you will – but the fact remains YOU LOST.
mbfmark
The photo looks like an official church directory photo like my parents used to get at their rabidly conservative, hateful, Baptist church. He’s probably a Deacon. People who think religion should be the law of the land aren’t fit for public office.