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Senate hopeful [Laffey] explains anti-gay columns
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| Last Edited | particleman Aug 26, 2006 10:31pm |
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| News Date | Sunday, August 27, 2006 04:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | CRANSTON, R.I. - U.S. Senate candidate Stephen Laffey said he regrets that he wrote columns denigrating gays when he was a college student.
Laffey, the mayor of Cranston, acknowledged writing the columns in a story published Saturday in the Providence Journal. The paper reported that it received copies of the columns anonymously in the mail earlier in the week.
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In one column, Laffey said he has never seen a happy homosexual. "This is not to say there aren't any; I simply haven't seen one in my lifetime. Maybe they are all in the closet," he wrote. "All the homosexuals I've seen are sickly and decrepit, their eyes devoid of life."
In another column he wrote that pop music was turning the children of America into sissies, and criticized the singer Boy George, referring to him as "it." "It wears girl's clothes and puts on makeup," he wrote. "When I hear it sing, 'Do you really want to hurt me, do you really want to make me cry,' I say to myself, YES, I want to punch your lights out, pal, and break your ribs." |
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