In a recent Facebook post, the vice chair of the Colorado Republican Party wrote that LGBT rights will put American on “a very slippery slope” to legalizing pedophilia and bestiality.
Derrick Wilburn, who was elected to the party post earlier this year, took to the Facebook page of his group, American Conservatives of Color, to mock a New York Times opinion column calling for new approaches in dealing with people convicted of sex crimes against children.
Wilburn later confirmed to BigMedia.org that he did in fact write the post, but insisted that he wasn’t comparing gay people to pedophiles:
“I wasn’t saying the two are comparable,” he said. “What I’m saying is, as a society, we are moving in the direction of, ‘how I believe I was born makes my behavior normative and therefore acceptable.’ We have to be very careful. At what point do we, as a society draw a line, or is there no line? I try to post stuff more as a topic of conversation than as my personal viewpoints, though of course I do have my views. If you read it like that, it’s really just more, this is something we need to talk about. “People are already saying, ‘Look, I was born with a genetic disposition to sexual attraction toward other men,’ if I’m a male. ‘That’s just how I was born.’ Okay, I’m not going to make that a point of dispute or argument. But then what do we do when someone ways, ‘I was borwith a propensity toward being attracted to children. I was born with a propensity toward being attracted to German Shepherds’.’
h/t RWW reader Erik.