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Ken Buck Equates Homosexuality With Alcoholism, video

by NowPublic Staff | October 18, 2010 at 09:23 am

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GOP Candidate Says Being Gay A Choice, Equates Homosexuality With Alcoholism, (Meet The Press Video)
Ken Buck, the Republican Senate candidate from Colorado, is making the headlines for his comments about homosexuality on Sunday's Meet the Press.
Ken Buck was being interviewed by David Gregory, the host of Meet the Press.

GREGORY: Do you believe that being gay is a choice?BUCK: I do.GREGORY: Based on what?BUCK: Based on what? I guess you can choose who your partner is.GREGORY: You don't think it's something that's determined at birth?BUCK: I think that birth has an influence over it, like alcoholism and some other things, but I think that basically, you have a choice.

Ken Buck later clarified his remarks surrounding homosexuality.

He noted that he mentioned alcoholism as an example of another behavior that can be influenced by genetic factors."I wasn't talking about being gay as a disease," Buck said. "I don't think that at all."

These latest comments from Ken Buck demonstrate the unease among mainstream Republicans to the newer Tea Party backed candidates. The GOP is set to make some big grounds in the upcoming mid-terms and they don't want any controversial comments to motivate a seemingly unmotivated Democratic base.

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Jordan Yerman

at 09:36 on October 18th, 2010

His "clarification" still fails to address his misunderstanding of homosexuality. In other words, does Ken Buck remember the precise day that he "decided" to be straight?

YankeeJim

at 12:38 on October 18th, 2010

Mr. Buck needs to go to reform school.

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at 12:42 on October 18th, 2010

What he said was you can choose who to have sex with. You can choose what you drink. That says both are choices, not that they are equal.

YankeeJim

at 13:25 on October 18th, 2010

Genes play a most significant part in determining our various propensities.

Karen Hatter

at 12:52 on October 18th, 2010

Ken Buck, like others said to be loved BY the TEA Party, has who knows how many issues. The TEA Party itself, has LOTS of intolerance issues.

DiverseTea is not a new phenomenon in the effort to whitewash and sugarcoat intolerant causes. The Tea Party tried to put on its happy diversity face with UNI-TEA, which has been a flop— although I’m sure Uncle Ruckus is a fan.

And the anti-immigrant organization FAIR (Federation for American Immigration Reform) created You Don’t Speak For Me, a Hispanic anti-immigrant front group, and its defunct African-American counterpart Choose Black America. FAIR, which drafted the infamous Arizona law SB 1070, has been designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. The law was signed by Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, who proclaimed “I love them [Latinos] from the bottom of my heart.”

FAIR has received funding from the white supremacist and pro-eugenics Pioneer Fund, which supports studies linking race, genetics and intelligence. And even as Tea Party now represents the energy of the Republican Party, the homophobic GOP claims to make overtures to gay Republicans, another oxymoron. This, as it has alienated the LGBT community, Muslims, Arabs, Latinos, blacks and anyone who is not a straight, white conservative Christian fundamentalist.

marianmo

at 14:07 on October 18th, 2010

intolerance and stupidity reign in this election

Barry ORegan

at 15:44 on October 18th, 2010

The guy is a throwback to the dark ages, just because someone has an affinity for White Zinfandel and loves to show off his dancers legs doesn't mean he is gay, just ask Raging Lesbian Gene Simmons.

Guys like him are to be ignored, yet media love to titillate the audience and create controversy, that in the real world there isn't any worth commenting on with the likes of him.

Grace H

at 15:47 on October 18th, 2010

Except there is because people are seriously considering voting for this incompetent imbecile and too many others like him...

t k kidwai

at 17:39 on October 18th, 2010

A good many Republican candidates have lost mental equilibrium.Why are they so desperate and each one vying to refurbish his/her image by going beserk?Is it new strategy to invite voters' attention?If Republicans win,we will be the ultimate losers.God,save us from Republicans-Amen

Karen Hatter

at 08:20 on October 19th, 2010

Thoughts on DADT from Kentucky Republican candidate Todd Lally:

In an Oct. 12 debate hosted by KET's "Kentucky Tonight," KY-3 Republican candidate Todd Lally said he is firmly against repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell (DADT), based on his many years serving in the military. He further added that he doesn't want to "trample" on the rights" of "straight" soldiers:

LALLY: I'm a 22-year veteran, I've been to war three times. I know what it's like to live for a year in a tent with 10 men, and I can tell you, it poses a lot of problems for the military. It does absolutely nothing for military readiness, and two, it's a logistics issue. Now are we going to have dorms and facilities for men, gay men, women, gay women -- and at what cost to the taxpayer are we going to do that?

So we have only discharged only 13,000 people under Don't Ask, Don't Tell. It is a policy that works, and it has kept the troops very happy over the years, and I'm not going to sit there and trample on any troop's rights that is straight because this is not a place for this.