This is amazing article about not just the hypocrisy of Rep. Steele, but of the hypocrisy of many Pierre lawmakers. Remember Mr. Klaudt?
Earlier this week, at their weekly Legislative Coffee, Representative Manny Steele (R-SD) compared homosexuals to pedophiles. Steele said this to support his vote for NO on HB 1144-the South Dakota Bill that would ban discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. After learning more about Representative Steele, and his family…and his6 sons, we knew the math was on OUR side,he doth protest too much.
On Thursday, we spoke with Rep. Steele regarding his stance for No on HB 1144, we discussed his comment and wanted to give him a chance to apologize and recant this ignorant statement. During our time with the representative, he was given multiple opportunities to recant and apologize for these remarks. No apology was offered. Steele only continued to tow the line of hate and ignorance by saying that being Gay is “a choice.â€
“There are people that are beastialogists. There are people who have sex with animals, so do we say that’s ok? Is that ok for society?† –Rep. Steele
Let the hypocrisy begin. It wasn’t until cornered with his circular and arcane logic broken, that he gave up and admitted that he actually has a homosexual son. He reluctantly admitted, “my 3rd son…is Gay,†and later inquired if we would reach out to him and attempt to try and defend his record. This was his last possible refuge from sounding like a monster. Fortunately for us, and our community, his own son, Randy Steele admits, “I wouldn’t vote for him.â€
He represents my district, and I won’t vote for him because of a discussion that we had a few years ago, about his pro-life stance.
Rumor has it to that his son is not the only close gay family member. Not sure how to prove it though. Kind of odd that so many people in Manny’s family ‘choose’ that lifestyle. I have often believed it is wired into your genetic code. Sure there are probably a few people who choose to have sex with whoever in there wild youth, but for the most part I don’t think homosexuality is a choice, you are born that way.
I think the latest research says that boys who don’t get a surge of testosterone right before they’re born (as most do) have a much higher probablity of being gay. Can’t find the original source, though.
I really don’t understand the hate. Replace the words “gay marriage” with “inter-racial marriage” and you have to exact same arguments and lines of thinking from 50 years ago – from the same type of bigoted ‘tards.
Thank goodness for those republican family values. Family over anything……well almost.
I still don’t understand how gay marriage would destroy the sanctity of straight marriage?
Regardless of whether homosexuality is wrong or right, the issue here is discrimination. Steele is wrong for insisting that gay citizens don’t deserve the same protections as the rest of us. Politicians need to wake up and realize that discrimination is not acceptable!
[…] wonder if Manny’s son, who is openly gay, likes his father comparing him to the KKK? (Public testimony during the SF City Council meeting). […]
Mr. Steele and his wife are also both divorced….the bible on divorce……alachi 2:14-15
“Yet you say, ‘For what reason?’ Because the LORD has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant. “But not one has done so who has a remnant of the Spirit. And what did that one do while he was seeking a godly offspring? Take heed then, to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of your youth.
Ephesians 5:33
Nevertheless let each individual among you also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see to it that she respect her husband.
Matthew 19:6
“Consequently they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”
Matthew 5:31-32
“And it was said, ‘Whoever sends his wife away, let him give her a certificate of divorce’; but I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except for the cause of unchastity, makes her commit adultery; and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
Mark 10:2-12
And some Pharisees came up to Him, testing Him, and began to question Him whether it was lawful for a man to divorce a wife. And He answered and said to them, “What did Moses command you?” And they said, “Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce and send her away.” But Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment. “But from the beginning of creation, God made them male and female. “For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and the two shall become one flesh; consequently they are no longer two, but one flesh. “What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.” And in the house the disciples began questioning Him about this again. And He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her; and if she herself divorces her husband and marries another man, she is committing adultery.”
Luke 16:18
“Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery; and he who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.
1 Corinthians 7:10-15
But to the married I give instructions, not I, but the Lord, that the wife should not leave her husband (but if she does leave, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband should not send his wife away. But to the rest I say, not the Lord, that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, let him not send her away. And a woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he consents to live with her, let her not send her husband away. For the unbelieving husband is sanctified through his wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified through her believing husband; for otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy. Yet if the unbelieving one leaves, let him leave; the brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us to peace.
1 Corinthians 7:39
A wife is bound as long as her husband lives; but if her husband is dead, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.
Deuteronomy 24:1-4
“When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it happens that she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out from his house, and she leaves his house and goes and becomes another man’s wife, and if the latter husband turns against her and writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter husband dies who took her to be his wife, then her former husband who sent her away is not allowed to take her again to be his wife, since she has been defiled; for that is an abomination before the LORD, and you shall not bring sin on the land which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance.