Just when you begin to wonder if the Republican party has gotten a grip and decided to put its more rabid homophobia behind it, up from the primordial ooze rises someone like Steve Hickey, a state house representative from South Dakota. Apparently upset that a local newspaper found his letter-to-the-editor about anal sex too much for its readers, Hickey posted the rant on his Facebook page, proving once again that social media should have strict permit requirements.
“Consider this an open letter to the medical and psychological communities in South Dakota,” Hickey begins. “The subject is homosexuality, which is about to be a front-page topic for the next few years in our state.’ (Hickey refers to a lawsuit challenging the state ban on marriage equality.)
“Certainly there are board-certified doctors in our state who will attest to what seems self-evident to so many: gay sex is not good for the body or mind,” Hickey continues before launching into one of the most bizarre metaphors of all time. “Pardon a crude comparison but regarding men with men, we are talking about a one-way alley meant only for the garbage truck to go down.”
Hickey goes on for six more paragraphs from there, giving us a tour of the dank recesses of his mind. “Somehow the message we are presently getting from the medical community is that eating at McDonalds will kill us but the gay lifestyle has no side effects,” he says at one point. “Truth be told it seems self-evident the list of side effects would read far longer than anything we hear on a Cialis commercial.”
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Hickey says he has been flooded with angry phone calls. “People are asking my secretaries to talk to them about anal sex,” he told Talking Points Memo. “I’m getting hundreds of replies from all the way around the world, talking about how they want to rape me.”
Or at least that’s Hickey’s interpretation of the calls. Maybe the callers were just asking him to step out into the alley to teach him a lesson.
Photo credit: Steve Hickey’s Facebook page
Mezaien
Another IDIOT white American, Christian, or what I diagnosed as mental illness.
Daniel-Reader
Start a petition asking this guy’s wife to spice up their sex life because clearly he is taking his frustration out on others.
Large Marge
Why do they always ignore that a prostate massage orgasm is the best orgasm a guy will ever have?
If you believe in religious icons, it’s pretty damn hard to explain why it’s so pleasurable unless you think only a virginal woman should stick her fingers up yer butt!
muscl954
He probably f*&ks his wife in the a** and doesn’t think twice about it.
Dakotahgeo
South Dakota is only a half-step behind Missouri/Kansas in the smarts Dept., so that should settle the argument right there. Not the brightest light bulb in the States’ chandelier!
Captain proton
Thinking back to the American civil war, you sometimes have to wonder if it was worth taking the South back into the union.
toberlin
Who is this mr gay livestyle?Or mrs?
Cam
One comment and one prediction.
1. Funny how he claims there are board certified doctors who would back up his claim and yet isn’t it interesting how he can’t cite ANY of them? Just another typical right winger who vomits out a lie. We have a few on this cite that will post something, then if you fact check it, nope, a lie.
2. Prediction. Countdown to this guy getting caught with a male hustler in 5…4…3…2…
jazz4108
If you look hard enough you will find anyone doctor or no doctor to say what you want. This man is the one who crawled out of the garbage truck and his stink is still surround him.
Ridpathos
I’ve never had any garbage trucks go down my butthole. His sphincter must be wrecked.
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
It’s my forlorn hope that we could decouple anal sex from being synonymous with homosexuality, especially considering that in terms of sheer numbers it’s OVERWHELMINGLY a heterosexual interest or activity. A significant proportion of homosexuals including males and especially females (some lesbians do enjoy ass play) have no interest in anal; some in principal; some feel it’s simply not worth all the effort of the prep; still others find it painful or unsatisfactory for whatever reason. Yes, I know MANY do like it, and that’s cool..but it’s far from being a necessary and sufficient condition of homosexuality that we have been content to allow heterosexuals to paint it as being.
And, no, I don’t have a stick up my ass about this..and it definitely would NOT help!
LubbockGayMale
I bet this guy has a VERY big rosebud if he keeps a garbage truck up his ass… oh, sorry, I mis-read. He has a garbage truck in his head!
jmmartin
The garbage trucks will never make it to WeHo; they are too busy picking up dumb bigots like this one in nothing states like South Dakota.
tjr101
It’s just amazing how often these Christian Right-wingers think about gay sex
EGO
Steve Hickey seems to be infatuated with anal play, maybe he is a “Rimma Donna” :>)
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
“I’m getting hundreds of replies from all the way around the world, talking about how they want to rape me.”@EGO: Rimshot! :p
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
“I’m getting hundreds of replies from all the way around the world, talking about how they want to rape me.”
Talk ’bout wishfull thinkin’……………………….
ingyaom
Even if 100% of gays and only 1% of straights engaged in anal sex, there’d be way more straight anal sex going on, so what does Rep. Hickey think about that?
drivendervish
Just another bigot who decided that couching his hate in religious beliefs wasn’t working so he thought he’d try hiding behind health issues. This moron doesn’t explain why straight people would engage in anal sex when it is detrimental to both physical and mental health even when they have a socially acceptable alternative. It won’t be long before enough facts and statistics come out to clear up this guys misguided beliefs and he will have to figure out something else on which to base his hate.