Gay promiscuity will lead to national suicide.
Yes, a Republican made those claims. But not your Republican relative who sends you annoying right wing emails, or a writer for NewsMax, or even one of the numerous “entertainers” at Fox News. Nor is it a comment from Rush Limbaugh (though I’m quite sure he will come out in support of the man who made this claim).
No, this is the official position of a newly appointed Republican legislator from Wyoming, the rectangular state immediately to the north of the other rectangular state in which I resided for 3 decades. The gentlemen in question is Troy Mader and he represents the good people of Gillette in Wyoming’s state legislature. Back in 1987 he wrote and self published a book with the title “The Death Sentence of AIDS: Vital Information For You and Your Family’s Health and Safety.” In that book he claimed that:
[h]omosexuals…purposely infected women to pass AIDS infection into the straight population,” and that “[m]any homosexuals demand the right to have sexual acts with children of any age, including infants.”
Now you would think after thirty years, and the end of the “Gay panic” over the AIDS crisis, together wih all the medical reseach that has been done regarding this viral disease, that Rep. Mader would have changed his views significantly. Well, he is a Republican, however, in an age when Republicans consider science a sin, and scientists criminals and frauds. So, it comes as no surprise that he essentially stands by what he wrote back in the enlightened age bigoted and shameful era of our history when the Teflon President, Ronald Reagan, refused funding for the AIDS research, prevention and treatment. Indeed, thirty years later, Troy Mader, proud ignoramus and bigot, is doubling down on some of the most egregious claims he made in his outdated, unscientific and untrue book. To wit:
Wyoming’s newest legislator stands by a book he wrote nearly 30 years ago that claims many gay people demand the right to have sex with children and people with AIDS should be quarantined if they continue having sex. […]
Mader said he still believes gays tend to be more promiscuous than straight people, and that promiscuity contributes to the spread of the HIV virus. He said he recently finished reading a 2011 book called “Out of A Far Country: A Gay Son’s Journey to God. A Broken Mother’s Search for Hope,” by Christopher Yuan and Angela Yuan.
“And (Christopher) graphically illustrates the real problem in homosexuality is the promiscuity,” Mader said.
From his own book, here is Mader’s stated view regarding those who support civil rights for the LGBT community:
Page 210: “They (liberals and the liberal press) advocate national suicide for the ‘rights’ of a few.”
Not surprisingly, Mader is against same sex marriage rights for Wyoming’s citizens:
On Feb. 13, Mader voted with a majority of Wyoming House members against a bill that would have changed the definition of marriage in Wyoming from a male and female to two natural persons. The bill failed. That same day, Mader voted in favor of another bill that would have prohibited Wyoming courts and state agencies from recognizing out-of-state and out-of country gay marriages.
But hey, he’s no bigot. He says he has gay friends. Really. He didn’t name any names, and no one that lives in his district, but why would he lie about something like that?
Oh, and his book? It’s currently out of print. Maybe, and perhaps I’m being cynical, he gave the Caspar Star Tribune an interview about his views in order to get some publisher to bring it back and put it out there for the free market to decide the issue, or at the least earn him some royalties. Hey, maybe, he wants to get a little name recognition for a run for Congress, or at least the occasional guest spot on Hate Radio and Fox. He sure wouldn’t be the first Republican grifter to go down that path to greater personal prosperity.
