Lawmaker: Gays “Out Baring Their Breasts” Made City A “Cesspool Of Sin”

Gays “out baring their breasts and everything” have turned LGBT-friendly Asheville, North Carolina into a “cesspool of sin,” says Republican state Senator James Forrester, a North Carolina lawmaker who co-sponsored the successfully-passed measure that will put a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage to a vote next May. Forrester adds, “They have a lot of homosexuals that live in the Asheville area.”

Igor Volsky at Think Progress writes,

In the days before the North Carolina General Assembly voted to add a question to the May ballot asking residents to approve a constitutional amendment outlawing same-sex marriage, Sen. James Forrester (R) — a co-sponsor of the measure— called homosexuality an “unhealthy lifestyle” and urged gay people to “change their lifestyle” back “to the normal lifestyle we can accept.”
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Forrester has also claimed that the gay “lifestyle” is responsible for decreasing longevity by at least 20 years and predicted that if the state doesn’t adopt his constitutional amendment, “homosexuality will be taught into public school as the norm.” “Do you want that? No. The homosexuals want to have their lifestyle considered normal,” he said.

The North Carolina Star adds,

“The people will have the opportunity in the primary in May to vote whether they want to add to the Constitution that marriage is between one man and one woman as 30 other states have,” Forrester said.

In the week leading up to the action in the General Assembly, Forrester spoke at a forum held at a Gaston County church about the proposed amendment. During that forum he referred to Asheville as a “cesspool of sin.”

“It was kind of brought up in a church meeting we had and I don’t know what prompted me to say that, but I distinctly remember a couple of weeks ago they were all out baring their breasts and everything up in Asheville,” Forrester said. “They have a lot of very liberal people. They have a lot of homosexuals that live in the Asheville area.”

Forrester continued: “I think, it used to be you think of Wilmington with all the movie people down there would be the worst place in the state or Chapel Hill where they have a lot of liberal people and so forth. But Asheville is just doing a lot of things that I don’t like and I don’t think a lot of people in the Asheville area like.”

Forrester said that the amendment is needed because an activist judge might rule that the state has to allow same-sex unions. The state already has a statute banning same-sex marriages. Forrester said that placing the ban in the N.C. Constitution would place a stronger shield against a potential ruling from such a judge.

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