10-11-2010, 04:09 PM
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101011/ap_o...e_paladino
Those are the statements that are offensive to many people - not that he didn't want to go to a gay parade. And then there is this:
He didn't put the comment there. His staff didn't put the comment there. Right, it just materialized there all by itself.
...he told Orthodox Jewish leaders he doesn't want children "brainwashed into thinking that homosexuality" is acceptable.
Paladino, who has received tea party support, made the remarks at a synagogue in Brooklyn's Williamsburg section while trying to strike a contrast between himself and his Democratic rival, state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo. Paladino said he chose not to march in this summer's gay pride parade but his opponent did.
"That's not how God created us," Paladino said Sunday of being gay, "and that's not the example that we should be showing our children."
He also told the congregation that children who later in life choose to marry people of the opposite sex and raise families would be "much better off and much more successful."
Those are the statements that are offensive to many people - not that he didn't want to go to a gay parade. And then there is this:
On both ABC and NBC, Paladino said he crossed out a line from his prepared text at the synagogue that stated: "There is nothing to be proud of in being a dysfunctional homosexual."
"I did not say that. It's unacceptable. I crossed it out in the car. I did not say it," he said on "Today."
He said he didn't know who included it in a draft of his remarks, but it was not a member of his staff.
He didn't put the comment there. His staff didn't put the comment there. Right, it just materialized there all by itself.