A former reality TV star turned US House candidate in Atlanta has lashed out on the subject of LGBTQ rights.
Republican Angela Stanton-King is running for Georgia’s 5th Congressional Seat. She qualified last Friday to run against US Representative John Lewis: the state’s most senior Democrat and a longtime LGBTQ ally.
Stanton-King appeared in the BET docuseries From the Bottom Up and wrote a book in 2012 entitled, Life of a Real Housewife.
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She was pardoned by President Donald Trump in February for a 2004 conviction on federal conspiracy charges for her reported role in a car theft ring. She served a six-month home confinement sentence in 2007 over the charges, recently telling the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, “I turned my life around. I have completely redeemed my life.”
On the same day she qualified for her run last week, she took to Twitter to promote some of her views. This included a tweet on the advance of LGBTQ rights. It shows someone holding a rainbow gun to someone’s head, demanding: “Let me f### your 8 yo kid, pedofobe.”
Enough is Enough #LGBTQ pic.twitter.com/aVli0Xgc33
— Angela Stanton-King (@theangiestanton) March 6, 2020
Stanton-King went on to tweet: “America can accept a transsexual that changed their whole identity/sex but can’t accept a Felon who has changed their whole lifestyle…”
America can accept a transsexual that changed their whole identity/sex but can’t accept a Felon who has changed their whole lifestyle…
— Angela Stanton-King (@theangiestanton) March 7, 2020
She summed up her views as “Pro GOD, Pro LIFE, Pro WOMAN, Pro AMERICA, Pro TRUMP and PRO COMMON SENSE.”
On Saturday she again returned to the subject of pedophilia, using an image of Zaya Wade, the trans daughter of former basketball player Dwayne Wade.
“PEDOPHILIA,” Stanton-King tweeted. “Gay means Men having sex with men. If you wouldn’t want your 12 yr old daughter advertising that she enjoys sex with men/boys why your 12 yr old son? This is confusion, pedophilia, and sexual exploitation wrapped up in acceptance.”
PEDOPHILIA.
Gay means Men having sex with men.
If you wouldn’t want your 12 yr old daughter advertising that she enjoys sex with men/boys why your 12 yr old son? This is confusion, pedophilia, and sexual exploitation wrapped up in acceptance. #lgbtq🌈 #Pedophilia #Dwade pic.twitter.com/0ILPdHuDpY— Angela Stanton-King (@theangiestanton) March 8, 2020
Yesterday she took to Twitter to defend traditional gender roles and to praise masculine men.
“I am a woman that loves men and appreciates masculinity. We need our men. We need our sons. We need our brothers. Our men are not women and Our boys are not girls.”
I am a woman that loves men and appreciates masculinity.
We need our men.
We need our sons.
We need our brothers.
Our men are not women and Our boys are not girls.
— Angela Stanton-King (@theangiestanton) March 9, 2020
Among those to criticize the tweets was gay, Georgia council member Antonio Brown.
Responding to Stanton-King’s initial tweet with the rainbow gun, Brown said: “Hate like this will never be supported in our communities. This is a true reflection of the dilusional rhetoric fueled by political warfare & is on the opposite spectrum of equality & humanity. But, we must meet this conscious injustice with love & unconditional understanding.”
Hate like this will never be supported in our communities. This is a true reflection of the dilusional rhetoric fueled by political warfare & is on the opposite spectrum of equality & humanity. But, we must meet this conscious injustice with love & unconditional understanding.
— Antonio Brown (@AntonioisMuted) March 7, 2020
Democratic Rep. Lewis was elected in 1987. Late last year, the 80-year-old has revealed that he has been battling stage-4 pancreatic cancer but is still running for re-election.
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Stanton-King told 11 Alive last week she believed it was time for Lewis to step back.
“With all respect to Congressman Lewis, when I think about him, I always have that image in my mind when he was on the Selma Bridge,” she said. “The truth of the matter is, with all that he has given towards the fight for civil rights – which we greatly appreciate – these are no longer the days of marching over the Selma Bridge.”
Cam
A bigot who portrays themselves as the victim.
Yep, she’s a Republican.
sanfranca1
She’s not very bright. A pedophobe is a person who dislikes/is afraid of children.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
“she’s not very bright” goes without saying. Excellent catch!
jayceecook
She’s actually using it the way it was intended by whomever created the word. It’s meant to mean somebody who is afraid of and discriminates against pedophiles.
I’ve seen posts and memes like that one by people of her ilk used to spread propaganda that pedophiles are part of the LGBTQ community. I’m fairly certain it’s a term that was made up by the alt right. Though they like to claim it was the LGBTQ community and have been attacked for discriminating against pedophiles. I don’t know. It’s whack and the so-called stories I’ve seen are so outrageous you want to laugh but then you realize they actually mean it.
djmcgamester
No, she said what she meant. The pedophile has a gun to the head of the “pedophobe”. IOW, all of us normal people who think pedophilia is wrong would be considered pedophobes.
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Wasn’t too long ago that blacks were being tortured, torn apart and lynched.
This miserable vile crunt deserves to have a raging yeast infection every day for her miserable life. She’s truly as absolutely ugly on the inside as she is on the outside
YasherL
How do your two paragraphs relate? Genuinely curious here.
Tempus
Well…we have some things in common. I mean I’m PRO COMMON SENSE but I don’t see any in her statements. All i see is a unqualified homophobe who was undeservedly pardoned. I can’t accept a felon who “claims” to have changed their whole lifestyle with an entitled, self-centered, holier than thou attitude and who is clearly homophobic.
With no respect to Angela Stanton-King, when I think of her I always have that image in my mind where she equates being gay to being a rapist & pedophile. The truth of the matter is, with all that she hasn’t given towards the fight for civil rights – which we do not appreciate – these are no longer the days of prosecuting LGBT+ people for merely existing here in the United States.
Chrisk
Oh honey. All you’ve done is gone from one hustle to the next. Finding Jesus and gifting the loons and the Rethugs is what most con artists do.
You still lack remorse and empathy for others. Changed? I don’t think so.
Donston
I like men and masculinity too, girl. We twins!
Women like her see the “lgbtq community” as threats to their standing. Unfortunately, a lot of black women are starting to see it as something that is snuffing out their shine, their status and their struggles. And it really doesn’t have to be that way. While you got women who indulge femmiphobia and homo shaming yet are shocked when their man isn’t nearly as “straight” and masculine as she thought. Honestly, that fate would be a comeuppance for her. And perhaps she’s already experienced that, which is why she’s so bitter. There’s so much masculine pressure, fem shaming, homo shaming, and same-sex preferences/passions/affections/love shaming within the “queer” community. That is especially the case among many “queer” black males. So, this is hardly strictly a “straight world” problem, though that is where most of it begins.
kamirX
If I was running for that position I would focus more attention on the staggering level of black poverty in Atlanta, particularly among women and children, but that’s just me.
Joshua333
Fine example of why the Witch Trials need to come back.
xenafreak31
Insert eyeroll here.
djmcgamester
Yeah, she’s a bigot, but I can kind of sort of see where she’s coming from on the most superficial level. Really superficial. She probably looks at Desmond performing on stage in a gay bar and removing a few pieces of clothing – not enough to show any skin at all. Then seeing kids becoming transgender, which she probably perceives as sexualizing children. The, of course, there are the odd freaks out there who are attracted to children. However, it’s still on her. Just a tiny bit of research will find that all of these things are essentially anomalies. It’s just that they make the news so it blows up from something rare into “it’s everywhere”.
Donston
I am all about looking at things in a nuanced way and putting myself in other people’s shoes. But you are forever handing out passes for bigotry and general hatefulness. This is a wise enough, educated woman who is being egregiously homophobic, trans-phobic and femmiphobic. There’s no way around that.
Countervail
Somebody sounds like a DEEP in the closet lesbian. Who hates that much if they have no reason to?
Donston
I wouldn’t so quickly to believe that she’s a “lesbian”. There are a lot of people with similar perspectives as hers. But it’s funny how she has none of this ire towards masculine women, lesbians or FTMs. It begs the question: do you genuinely “love” men and want men to be themselves and be happy and be with whoever they truly want to be with and whoever makes them the most fulfilled? Or do you just want men to be want you want them to be? Unfortunately, for a lot of women it’s the latter. Even for a lot of “queer” and “progressive” women it’s the latter. Even Conservative males mostly stay hush when it comes to “female topics”. Yet, there are women all over social media and from every political sphere who are constantly telling males who they are, what they should identify as, who they should love, how they should behave. And unless they are overtly problematic and hateful, they rarely get called out. It really is time for a good percentage of cis women to stop trying to tell everyone what is best and just open up their ears and listen.
radiooutmike
Does she feels just as strongly towards the “normal” heterosexual pedophiles?
jayceecook
There is no such thing as a “heterosexual” pedophile, or a “homosexual” pedophile or any other categorical type. Pedophilia is a distinct psychiatric disorder characterized by a primary or exclusive sexual attraction to prepubescent children. It’s not even a sexual orientation but a paraphilia. I’m not going to go into all the other specific criteria but the sex of the child is not what determines the interest but age.
If she’s actually worried about the pedophilia problem in her district maybe she should spend some time learning what it is and isn’t. Then maybe ask why, in her mind, there is such a widespread problem with pedophiles in her area.
Kangol2
She’s a bigoted con woman, pure and simple. This is her newest grift. She’ll be lucky to get 20% of the vote, even with “King” as part of her last name in Atlanta.
JessPH
Thank goodness that she has no chance of winning. Lol
James
THAT UGLY B*TCH HAS ALREADY GOT HER PLACE IN HELL.