Ethics

Coburn Aide: All Porn is Gay Porn

By Ed Brayton

David Weigel has been having a ball at the Values Voters Summit, dutifully chronicling all the crazy things said there. Here's one of my favorites so far, from Michael Schwartz, chief of staff for Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma:

"Pornography is a blight," Schwartz told an audience in a crowded room of the Omni Shoreham hotel. "It is a disaster. It is one of those silent diseases in our society that we haven't been able to overcome very well. Now, I may be getting politically incorrect here. And it's been a few years, but not that many, since I was closely associated with pre-adolescent boys, boys around 10 years of age. But it is my observation that boys of that age have less tolerance for homosexuality than just about any other class of people. They speak badly about homosexuality. And that's because they don't want to be that way. They don't want to fall into it."

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on September 22, 2009 (boomark / email).