AMAZING article in the Miami Herald about how Republican Senate candidate Mel Martinez in Florida is using gay-baiting TO THE MAX in his campaign. This, even though Martinez has two openly-gay staff in senior positions.
What a pig. And what very sad morons these staffers are.
As Christian conservatives rally around Mel Martinez, their favorite candidate in the U.S. Senate race, a key reason for their support is his strict stance on one of their hot-button issues: homosexuality.I don't know why a local gay group doesn't launch protests calling on these gay staffers to quit.
The Martinez campaign has made the fight against what it calls ''the radical homosexual lobby'' central to its campaign. It's the subject of an attack ad -- removed Saturday under political pressure -- and a stinging mailer that criticizes rival Bill McCollum, a fellow conservative, for ''pandering to gays'' because he supported so-called hate crimes legislation in Congress.
Yet the Martinez campaign and the candidate's religious allies find themselves having to carefully parse their positions for one reason: Both Martinez and McCollum -- Republican politicians with impeccable conservative credentials -- have highly placed campaign staffers who are gay.
