Dr. Laura Schlessinger Dines With Blacks And Gays But Does Not Support Full Equality For Gays, Iowa Radio Host Deems Homosexuality Intrinsically Promiscuous And Argues Gay Marriage Is About Gaining Access To Taxpayers, Iowa Republican Senate Candidate Spews Anti-Gay Rhetoric And Suggests Gay Practices Are Embarrassingly Unsanitary

Dr. Laura Schlessinger caught in controversy on-air last week when she repeatedly said the N-word to prove a point – although that point was never made clear – announced this week that by December, she would end the current incarnation of her long-running radio show. In an odd interview with The Hollywood Reporter, she makes mention of going “out to dinner with three friends after Larry King. One of my friends who is gay is sitting there with another friend who is black, and he looks up and says, ‘I wonder what the media would do with this? You’re with a black guy and a gay guy.’ We all laughed, because we all understand what this is really about – censoring a point of view.” The good doctor also clarifies she never called homosexuality a “biological error,” Schlessinger saying that “gays and lesbians have as much compassion, intelligence, ability, warmth as anybody else, the inability to sexually match up male and female is a biological error. That’s it. I didn’t say people were a biological error. I said male parts and female parts make babies. I was talking biologically. The interesting thing is that gay groups have made the point that it’s not a moral issue, it’s a biological issue. I was really supporting their point of view.” Schlessinger does not, however, support gay marriage, saying “I just feel marriage is a sacred situation between a man and a woman. But I’m all for domestic partnerships.”

Matt Strawn, the Iowa Chairman of the Republican Party censured GOP state House candidate Jeremy Walters for posting comments on his Facebook page that argued AIDS was a Biblical punishment for homosexuality, Strawn adding that the Walters’s statement are in no way reflective of the Republican Party and the GOP beliefs and that HIV/AIDS does not discriminate. Walters too, apologized, but Thursday Iowa radio host Jan Mickelson on his WHO-AM program said “For the chairman of the Republican Party to say ‘AIDS doesn’t discriminate,’ well of course it does. It discriminates against people who engage in stupid behaviour.” He added that God does not directly punish homosexuals, but that disobeying God’s laws or natural law, which “also applies to sexual disorders” are self-enforcing, akin to skydiving without a parachute. When a caller then argued that it is promiscuity that increases the risk of AIDS, and that therefore Mickleson should support legalizing gay marriage, he disagreed, saying the promiscuity “defines the lifestyle,” adding that “homosexuality is intrinsically promiscuous, because it violates the design of our bodies. There is no safe way to do that. The marriage license is not relevant to promiscuity amongst the gay population. It is designed to do one thing, and that is to get access to the back pockets of the taxpayers. This is about the Benjamins. Not about the institution.”

Republican state Senate candidate Dave Leach (an advocate of killing abortion providers)weighs in on the Jeremy Walters comments, in an email addressed to the Iowa Independent, he says that “GOP head Matt Strawn is right in saying HIV does not discriminate; in other words, the fact that someone has HIV by no means proves they got it through sodomy.” Leach then bewilderingly adds that “everyone knows sodomites suffer (HIV/AIDS) far more than the rest of the population, and that sodomy’s practices, which are so embarrassingly unsanitary that you dare not detail them in one your articles, would inevitably create such a disease if it did not already exist. It seems ‘inappropriate,’ to use Strawn’s word, to apologize for saying what the Bible says, with which everyone agrees. It is ‘inappropriate’ for anyone to ask such a thing. I am sorry Jeremy gave up his ground, although at least he stood it for awhile, which is more than most will do.”