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Pennsylvania: Eichelberger

June 30, 2009 - 07:02 pm
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Eichelberger Faces His Critics

By dayvoe@gmail.com (Dayvoe)

(H/t to Think Progress)

Here's the entire clip:

Think Progress has a transcript:SPEAKER: So are you going to apologize to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender people in Pennsylvania — and all the people in Pennsylvania for those comments about allowing to exist and calling them dysfunctional.

EICHELBERGER: No, I think you know my answer to that. Thank you very much. And Sue Kerr gets a shout out at Think Progress:Pittsburgh Lesbian Correspondents, an LGBT blog in Pennsylvania, writes, “It is one thing to disapprove of my identity or believe it is a choice, but quite another thing to suggest that I am permitted to exist in spite of my identity. Should I be grateful to Senator Eichelberger for not condoning someone taking away my existence?”Congratulations to Sue!

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June 19, 2009 - 05:49 pm
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PA Senator Eichelberger: "We’re allowing them [gays] to exist"

By lupinaccim@aol.com (Maria)

Take a good, long look at this guy:

He's Pennsylvania State Senator John Eichelberger (R-PA-30th).

He says he's all about "integrity."

Here's how he defines that:


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(What? Nothing about putting prayer back in schools and kicking out them there foreigners?)

Well, at least we know that he's serious about #4 on his pledge because he introduced an amendment to the Pennsylvania Constitution to ban same-sex marriage (it's just not good enough for him that PA law already defines marriage as being between a man and a woman).

Eichelberger said in this interview, ''[This is] not an anti-homosexual bill.''

If despite that, you're still somehow convinced that Mr.

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