Channel 2 has Judy’s reaction and it is priceless (video)
Channel 5 has the quotes:
“We should look [homosexuality] right in the eye,” Keyes said. “It is a self-centered, selfish, self-oriented pursuit of pleasure. If my own daughter were a homosexual or a lesbian, I would love my daughter but I would tell my daughter that she was in sin.”
Former Gov. Jim Thompson was very harsh in his criticism of Keyes, Kay reported.
“I think the people of Illinois would find those kinds of remarks offensive and I think it’s an offense to the political process that we have to suffer a candidate on our ticket who says things like that,” Thompson said. “So it is not something that I as a voter would put up with, and I don’t think the people of Illinois will put up with it, either.”
Republican Illinois Congresswoman Judy Biggert, an abortion-rights Republican, was equally offended.
“I think it is shameful — I really do,” she said. “I think he should apologize. This is destroying everything that we’ve been building.”
Former Gov. Jim Edgar chairs the president’s re-election campaign in Illinois.
“It is an unfortunate thing. I think it takes away from the real issues in this campaign.”
Illinois Party Chairman Judy Baar Topinka minced no words.
“You don’t attack other people’s children,” she said. “I can’t stand behind that kind of an idiotic comment — that is exactly what it is, idiotic. If somebody went after my son, you know I would go for the jugular. You just don’t do that.”
This is destroying everything that we’ve been building.
I hope that members of the GOP remember to thank those responsible for bringing this destruction upon their party.
Your Weekly Alan Keyes Update
Jon Rowe has this interesting history of Keyes and his most admired mentor, Allan Bloom. Keyes’ admiration for someone he’d call a “selfish hedonist is probably unusual in and of itself, but there’s more to the story than that. And…