aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South
Saturday, October 07, 2006
Perdue, Taylor and the ‘radical homosexual lobby’
The silence around gay issues in next month’s Georgia gubernatorial race was broken this week by Republican Gov. Sonny Perdue, who accused his Democratic challenger, Lt. Gov. Mark Taylor, of putting “the interests of the radical homosexual lobby ahead of our Boy Scouts.”
Perdue lobbed the charge in a direct-mail piece to voters; in recent television ads, the governor said he hoped there would be no negative campaigning in the race for the state’s top office.
“When the Boy Scouts were being harassed by the radical homosexual lobby who wanted them ousted from public buildings, the ‘Defense of Scouting Act’ was introduced,” the direct-mail piece reads. “Instead of standing up for our values and our boys, Democrat Mark Taylor killed this important piece of legislation by refusing to even allow a vote in the state Senate.”
