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Buttars: Gays ‘greatest threat to America’

• Batsh*t Crazy • Conservatives • Homophobia

This is pathetic. As we all know, part of the LDS defense for its support of Prop 8 was that it wasn’t opposed to basic civil rights for gay and lesbian couples, it was just trying to “save marriage.” How much do you want to bet that the Mormon Church leaned on state representatives to kill a bill that would eliminate discrimination in housing and employment, hospital visitation, partner medical decisions for a partner, and adoption?

The Legislature dealt a final blow Wednesday to the Common Ground Initiative, possibly the most expansive push for legal protections for gay and transgender Utahns in state history.

A House committee rejected Rep. Jennifer Seelig’s HB160, which would have offered two, unmarried cohabiting adults—including same-sex couples—rights of inheritance and medical decision making for one another.

But the initiative is not dead, said Mike Thompson, executive director of Equality Utah, the advocacy group leading the charge. Democratic lawmakers have vowed to bring back their bills, with some variations, next year.

To add insult to injury, Utah State Senator Chris Buttars, a homophobe just meant to bed down with Sally Kern to produce Satan’s spawn, said this.

Sen. Chris Buttars considers the gay-rights movement—nationally and in Utah—“probably the greatest threat to America.”

In an interview with documentary filmmaker Reed Cowan, released by ABC 4 on Tuesday night, Buttars said the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community doesn’t want “equality, they want superiority.”

“It’s the beginning of the end. Oh, it’s worse than that. Sure. Sodom and Gomorrah was localized. This is worldwide,” the West Jordan Republican said in the interview.

For that extra dash of spice, Buttars also compared gay advocates to Muslim terrorists and plans to further detail his views on the Utah Senate web site.

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Posted by Pam Spaulding on 10:02 PM • (9) Comments

We can always count on one very special Utah senator to be a complete and total Butt-arse.

Comment #1: Lauren O on 02/18 at 10:12 PM

Hm, the idiot spews the same “TEOTWAWKI ‘cuz dem queerz iz gettin’ rites too” garbage as everyone else, plus he furthers the myth of Sodom.

Can we please just hurry up and find out he’s secretly sucking dick in mens’ rooms so the Rethugs will throw him out on his ass?

Comment #2: Blue Fielder on 02/18 at 10:22 PM

Why would they throw them out? They still wanted to keep the bathroom perv Craig when he was exposed on national tv.

Comment #3: tootiredoftheright on 02/18 at 10:41 PM

What alarms me even more than the comments themselves, is the fact that there are enough painfully ignorant individuals out there to get this knuckle-dragging mouth-breather elected. It seriously decreases my nearly-nonexistent faith in humanity…

Comment #4: Black Cat on 02/18 at 10:47 PM

Wasn’t that, like, two seasons ago?

“Butters’ dad does what any good father would do if he believed his son was bi-curious in an all-new “South Park” entitled, “Cartman Sucks,”. When another one of Cartman’s pratical jokes puts Butter’s in a compromising position, his dad is determined to “straighten him out.” While Butters is at a special camp trying to “pray the gay away,” Cartman realizes the joke is on him.”

Comment #5: AlanB on 02/19 at 01:34 AM

AlanB, that’s the episode that comes to mind whenever I read something about this asswipe legislator.

“My name is Butters, I’m eight years old, I’m blood type O, and I’m bi-curious. And that’s OK, too because if I’m bi-curious and I’m somehow made from god, then I figure god must be a little bi-curious himself!”

Comment #6: MAJeff, the God of Biscuits on 02/19 at 06:44 AM

Since when is wanting the same rights as everyone else the same as wanting to be superior? It seems like this guy is immune to logic and dictionaries.

Comment #7: bananacat on 02/19 at 12:19 PM

If someone wants to take away (or keep away) your rights based on their views, and succeeds, then they are superior.

If someone wants to take away (or keep away) your rights based on their views and they fail, then you are superior - in the sense that you have more power than they do.

In a zero-sum game, there are always winners and losers. In these people’s minds, there is no such thing as equality, or “plenty for everybody.” After all, the opposite of inferior is not equal. If they think of you as inferior,for them, the only possible change is to superior. Otherwise, they couldn’t hold on to the conviction that you are different and other.

Comment #8: Lymis on 02/19 at 01:32 PM

Yes, Chris Buttars, paragon of moral virtue and not at all a jailer of children. Nope, not a bit.

Stealing people’s rights is just another day on the job for this asshat.

Comment #9: ErisDiscordia on 02/19 at 02:01 PM

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