Openly Gay Candidate Scott Galvin's Signs Defaced With Homophobic Slur

Mr bush was av open homosexual

There is no such thing as "homophobic". Phobia denotes a fear of something. This is clearly a term that was created to make them seem as if they're not doing anything wrong, and it's someone else's problem. I have yet to meet anyone who is afraid of homosexuals. Nor do most people "hate" them, as they are so often accused. What they hate is the action, the same thing God hates and forbids. Wake up, grow up and stop blaming your sick behavior on others' reactions. Romans 1 makes it very clear at the end of the chapter that those who approve are in the same category as those who do.

Also prominent among Hitler's intimates was Ernst Rohm, commander of the S.A.- the Nazi storm troopers. Rohm, a tough, brawny man who had been an army officer during World War I, became part of Hitler's inner circle in 1919, when the future fuhrer began venturing into politics. Although Rohm left the S.A. for a few years over differences with Hitler - Rohm wanted the storm troopers to be independent of the party - in 1931 he was invited back by Hitler and once again firmly entrenched in power.

Unlike others in the Nazi Party, Rohm was openly homosexual, admitting to associates that he was "far from unhappy" about his sexual orientation. He frequented gay bars, belonged to a homosexual organization called the League for Human Rights, and publicly advocated the repeal of Paragraph 175. An anonymous 1932 article called "National Socialism and Inversion" has been credited to Rohm's influence (or even authorship); the article stated that if Nazi Party members performed their official duties well, they were entitled to private lives of "creative eroticism" and "loving homosexual relationship[s]."

Rohm established a kind of gay network within the S.A., assigning prominent posts to gay friends and lovers. Among Rohm's "sweethearts" was Edmund Heines, whom Rohm appointed first as his deputy and later as leader of the Munich branch of the S.A. Another of Rohm's favorites was Karl Ernst, who was nicknamed "Frau Rohrbein" for his intimate friendship with Paul Rohrbein, Berlin's S.A. commander. After meeting Rohm, Ernst had a meteoric rise from a leadership position in the S.A. to a seat in the Reichstag, Germany's legislative body.

Rohm and his close-knit circle - dubbed in a Munich paper the "Brotherhood of Poofs" - had powerful, homophobic enemies who convinced Hitler that Rohm was a threat. These included Joseph Goebbels, head of Nazi propaganda, and Paul Schultz, captain of the Berlin S.A., who warned Hitler of the danger in "the employment of morally objectionable persons in positions of authority." Although Hitler's decision to destroy Rohm and his network was framed as a safeguard against a possible S.A. putsch, it may have also been designed to put to rest the rumors about Hitler's sexuality.

On June 30, 1934 - called the Night of Long Knives - Hitler, Goebbels, and a small group of Gestapo traveled in the middle of the night to a resort where Rohm and his lieutenants were enjoying a furlough, sleeping peacefully in a hotel, some with their male companions at their side. Edmund Heines was dragged from his bed and shot. In recognition of his long friendship with Hitler, the half-dressed Rohm was given a pistol and ordered to kill himself, but he refused and was executed.

Over the next four days, about 150 S.A. leaders were rounded up and shot by firing squads. In a radio speech, Goebbels announced that "a clean sweep is being made ... symptoms of moral degeneration that manifest themselves in public life are being cauterized." The following year, Nazi policy took a sharp turn toward a harsher interpretation of Paragraph 175, sending thousands of gay men to concentration camps.

Scott Galvin's political career will skyrocket once we have a toilet stall encounter.

I want great leaders and I don't care if they are gay or straight. One of our greatest military leaders was Alexander The Great, and his troops followed him in battle and took over most of the known world at that time. His troops could care less if he was gay! Today some of our worse leaders are straight.......it does not matter.