Posted by the New York Daily News this morning:
[Sen. Diaz' effort to protect marriage] has also drawn the Pentecostal minister into venomous, online clashes and spawned death threats called into his office. Now a Brooklyn gay bar will host a "F--- Ruben Diaz Festival."
"I have never preached hate," Diaz told the Daily News. "They're showing that they're the ones that are doing the hateful things."
Diaz said he and his family have received death threats due to his vocal stance on keeping gay marriage unlawful in New York State. They were reported to the FBI and Albany police, he said. "
We are in America; we are supposed to agree to disagree and respect each other's positions," the senator said.
On May 10, tweets by opponents of Diaz's May 15 rally included one in which the sender expressed the desire to sexually assault Diaz's daughter.
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Not true.
Typically hypocritical for Diaz to claim death threats when at his Bronx hate rally there were calls for the deaths of gay people. I was there. I recorded the speeches.
"We are in America; we are supposed to agree to disagree and respect each other's positions," the senator said."
Well said. Would that the folks at NOM would follow that position and stop trying to break up loving families.
So, if the previous commenter recorded them, let's hear 'em.
Unless Diaz was one of them, Joe, it isn't hypocrisy. I think there are a lot of people out there today who need to relearn the meaning of the word.
It is hypocrisy if he doesn't call attention to those calls or he does not repudiate those calls, gothelittle.
More hatred and bigotry from homosexual activists. The homosexuals need opposite-sex partners to mellow them out; married men and women tend to temper one another's extremist inclinations. It seems that homosexual partners act synergistically to increase their extremist, violent tendencies.
@Gothelittle - Of COURSE it's hypocrisy when it was HIS rally, HIS invited guests and when one of those calling gays "abominations" was his own (MUCH younger) second wife.
We definitely have an entire generation of people who need to relearn the meaning and purpose of the word hypocrisy.
Seems you need to learn the definition of hypocrisy, Gothelittle. You see Diaz organized the rally, which means these people spoke because he wanted them to, that is an implied endorsement. If Diaz does not endorse the hate-filled words and calls for death that speakers of his choosing made at his rally, it is his responsibility to denounce them.
Merriam-Webster defines hypocrisy thusly:
HYPOCRISY
1: a feigning to be what one is not or to believe what one does not.
In this story Diaz feigns opposition to violent rhetoric, yet his failure to denounce similar rhetoric when it came out of the mouths of speaker he chose at his rally reveals that he really doesn't oppose violent rhetoric. Ergo the charge of hypocrisy is valid and stands.
I'll give this lesson for free, but further instruction in plain English will cost ya.
Oh that's right, I forgot. According to SSM activists, simply saying that gay sex is wrong is just as bad as issuing death threats and desires to rape the children of anyone who dares oppose them.
Thanks for clearing that up, I almost thought I was dealing with reasonable people.
And days later, there is STILL no confirmation of the actual existence of these alleged death threats. Not from the media, who have looked into it and not from ANY police agency. Diaz is LYING. Again.
Diaz refuses to denounce calls to murder gay people, which were made at HIS HATE RALLY.
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