Current Events > Lawmaker suggests sending all gay people to an island. 'They'll die in 40 years'

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A Republican lawmaker is facing calls to resign for making hateful comments about gay people being sent to an island.

Albany County legislator George Langdon IV made the shocking comments at a Bible camp seminar on constitutional liberty.

Langdon began his speech by dismissing the separation of church and state as bogus before launching into a tirade on same-sex marriage and relationships.

This whole gender issue. OK, he said. Everything God does is sustainable. Its sustainable. It goes on and on and on. Its perpetual. Sorry. When you have homosexual relationships, its not perpetual. Give them an island, theyll be gone after 40 years, OK? Because they cant God created us to be this way. Theres so much common sense that needs to be applied to our policies, our procedures, the things that we do in our government.

Langdon, a Republican in his first term on the legislature, was widely condemned for his outdated views after the speech was shared on social media.

Democratic Legislature Chairman Andrew Joyce called on the legislator to resign immediately, saying he proved that he is unfit to serve.

It pains me to even remotely amplify the disgusting comments spewed out by Albany County Legislator George Langdon, Joyce said in a statement.

Listening to someone laughingly share an ugly, nightmarish scenario of our loved ones being gone after 40 years shakes us all to our core, not only as public servants, but as human beings.

Albany County Legislator George Langdon is unfit to serve. I call on him to apologise and resign. Not for 40 years, but forever.

Democratic County Executive Dan McCoy also weighed in, saying Langdons comments are brazenly hateful and represent outdated and backward thinking.

Every resident, no matter who they love or how they identify, deserves a place in Albany County, not to be relegated to some theoretical island,' he said in a statement.

The past four years have shown us that we cannot afford to shrug off hate and bigotry. We have to confront it and call it what it is hate.

Republican minority leader Frank Mauriello was evasive on the subject of resignation, saying that each elected official is responsible for their own words.

But he appeared to distance himself from Langdons views in a statement on Wednesday. Whatever your sexual orientation, we are all equal in Gods eyes and equal under the law, he said. Any statements that contradict that belief are unacceptable. Our community is strengthened by mutual respect and understanding and a shared belief that divisive comments will never move us forward.

Langdon has not addressed questions about his remarks, or the calls for his resignation.
His profile and description of being chief financial officer of his and his wifes financial firm had since been removed from his business website as of Thursday.

Full Article: https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/04/02/republican-albany-george-langdon-resign-homophobic-gay-people-island/



Some people are so hateful

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Republicans hate gay people so much its just so funny that a lot of them are gay

40 years? That seems surprisingly generous of him.

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UnfairRepresent posted...

Langdon began his speech by dismissing the separation of church and state as bogus

the rest of the words are irrelevant. being this wrong about his job should be more than enough for him to lose it. immediately.

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Fucking cultists.

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Medussa posted...

the rest of the words are irrelevant. being this wrong about his job should be more than enough for him to lose it. immediately.

funny how Republicans looove the US Constitution... until that's brought up

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Medussa posted...

the rest of the words are irrelevant.

I don't agree

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of course you don't. that's literally your gimmick.

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UnfairRepresent posted...

"Everything God does is sustainable. Its sustainable. It goes on and on and on. Its perpetual."

So much for those fairytales about world-ending floods, then.

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Based lawmaker.

Firewerx posted...

So much for those fairytales about world-ending floods, then.

And all the extinct animals

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UnfairRepresent posted...

And all the extinct animals

all the dinosaurs died after getting off the ark because God was like "eh, fuck 'em"

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Republican says Republican thing.

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He's not wrong, but...what the fuck point does that make?

Does love not matter to him or something?
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UnfairRepresent posted...

"Theres so much common sense that needs to be applied to our policies, our procedures, the things that we do in our government.

Yes, and this is why you need to resign.

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and to think that our dear precious oxygen is being wasted by idiots like him...

Molon labe motherfucker

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guy's in his 50s and fat. would be cheaper and easier to just send him to a deserted island, he'll die way before that 40 year limit...

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cuh posted...

You realize that heterosexual parents give birth to gay children, right?? If you put all of us in an island, gay people will still be born lol

and that enough of the people on the island wouldn't be willing to procreate, anyway. (especially if he's sending all the bi/pan people, too) and that industry #1 wouldn't be alternative fertility methods.

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cuh posted...

You realize that heterosexual parents give birth to gay children, right?? If you put all of us in an island, gay people will still be born lol

But do gay people give birth? I dont think so.

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send him to a deserted island and see how long the shitstain survives.

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The Wheelman1 posted...

But do gay people give birth? I dont think so.

Being gay =/= being infertile

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Wouldn't they reproduce with the opposite sex as a need to survive and make some sort of rules?

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cuh posted...

You realize that heterosexual parents give birth to gay children, right?? If you put all of us in an island, gay people will still be born lol

No, what I'm saying is his specific idea to put gay people on an island wouldn't really work(unless he means lesbians too, then fair game). Obviously more people who are homosexual would be born, but...like if you put a bunch of gay men on an island, they wouldn't exactly create new kids.

But that's like...not even a point? Put a bunch of infertile women and men on an island and they will die out too.

It's just him not understanding that it's a pointless subject to bring up and helps nothing. No different from crossing your arms and pouting on stage because you're a whiny baby that can't stand others being different.
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Slayer_22 posted...

No different from crossing your arms and pouting on stage because you're a whiny baby that can't stand others being different.

conservatism in a nutshell

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He'd probably argue that he's not literally suggesting that all gay people should be forcibly removed to some version of Devil's Island; but what exactly is this "common sense" approach he's alluding to for how government should deal with gay people? What is the government supposedly doing wrong, and what does he think would be right?

Whenever someone says there's no room in God's plan for a certain group of people, it means there's no room for those people in the world. And the implications of that ain't healthy.

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But then again, lesbians can still get pregnant through sperm donors. So he's not entirely right.

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The Wheelman1 posted...

So he's not entirely right.

it's almost as if he's a worthless piece of shit idiot

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Choco posted...

it's almost as if he's a worthless piece of shit idiot

Adding the 'almost' is giving the benefit of the doubt lol.

He kinda just is.
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It wasn't a "hateful" comment. He was proposing genocide of gay people.

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Nah let's not do that

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How about we send him to an island. Alone.

So no one has to see him go fuck himself.

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Heartomaton posted...

How about we send him to an island. Alone.

So no one has to see him go fuck himself.

Best comment.
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When you put something someone supposedly said in quotes, its supposed to be something that they actually said, and not something you made up (w.r.t. the topic title).

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radical rhino posted...

When you put something someone supposedly said in quotes, its supposed to be something that they actually said, and not something you made up (w.r.t. the topic title).

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UnfairRepresent posted...
'They'll die in 40 years'

theyll be gone after 40 years, OK?

I changed the verbage to fit in into the 80 character limit but the actual meaning of the quote is identical

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How fucking dare you change words around TC.

scum
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Wow.

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LastTomorrow posted...

Wouldn't they reproduce with the opposite sex as a need to survive and make some sort of rules?

shh

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I think people can make a boat to get off the island within forty years

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Post #12 up for 23 hours with multiple mods actively posting on CE. Good work fellas.

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Orchestrion posted...

Post #12 up for 23 hours with multiple mods actively posting on CE. Good work fellas.

That person had a ridiculous meltdown in another topic too
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TheCurseX2 posted...

Based lawmaker.

you really think so?

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@TheCurseX2

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Republicans, on gay marriage: Theyre destroying the sanctity of marriage!

Republicans, on divorce, the literal destruction of a marriage: *crickets*

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Orchestrion posted...

Post #12 up for 23 hours with multiple mods actively posting on CE. Good work fellas.

Still up. Wow.

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