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Anti-LGBT comments aplenty at the Values Voter Summit

At the Values Voter Summit this past weekend, as has been typical at such events in recent years, several hard-core conservatives decided to make outrageous statements at the expense of the LGBT community. Most of them I had heard before, so I'll focus my attention on the two which stood out from the rest to me.

The first such comment comes courtesy of the Radiance Foundation's Ryan Bomberger, who said that he believes homophobia to be a myth, saying there is no such thing as kleptophobia either.

Right, because those whom don't approve of people with a stealing problem are almost identical to those whom don't approve of equal rights for gay couples. Disapproving of a crime is the same thing as disapproving of homosexuality.

With this kind of twisted logic, Mr. Bomberger may also believe the following:

- "There's no such thing as homophobia. People who don't approve of murderers aren't murderophobics, are they?"

- "There's no such thing as homophobia. I don't approve of rape. Does that make me a rapeophobic?"

- "If there was such a thing as homophobia, there would also be insidertradingophobia, and guess what? There's not!"

My favorite remark comes courtesy of former Arkansas Governor and current Fox News talking head Mike Huckabee, who said that in light of California's new law which protects transgender students, that if the law had been around when he was in high school, all the boys would have pretended to be transgender so they could go into the girls' locker room, closing the tangent with, "Isn't that the craziest thing you've ever heard?"

Uh, yeah, and whose mind came up with that idea? Mike Huckabee. I love those kinds of comments the most. Here we have someone who's so against equal marriage rights for homosexuals and finds the "lifestyle" so disturbing that he resorts to fallacies such as the slippery slope and comes up with a very unrealistic scenario which is far more disturbing than gay marriage or homosexuality in general. Well done, Mr. Huckabee. Well done, indeed.

http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2013/10/15/2779641/values-voter-summit-anti-lgbt/

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