Tom Holland Is Shrill

Tom Holland Is Shrill

by digby

Joe Sudbay reports that Gubernatorial candidate Sam Brownback has an Aliban-Tay Problem:

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tom Holland on Thursday called on his Republican opponent, Sam Brownback, to denounce Lou Engle, a controversial anti-homosexual minister, whom Holland compared to Fred Phelps.

“I am calling on Sam Brownback to formally denounce Lou Engle — not just `some’ of his statements — but his entire message of violence, hate and bigotry.

“Lou Engle sounds a lot like Fred Phelps,” Holland said referring to the anti-homosexual preacher known for his protests at the funerals of soldiers killed in war. “But the difference is unlike Fred Phelps, Lou Engle lived with Sam Brownback in Washington, D.C.,” Holland said.

Brownback can’t and won’t denounce Engle…

Brownback/Engle: Making Kansas the next Uganda?

It’s very rude of Holland to draw attention to Brownback’s fundamentalist faith and close relationship with someone who was intimately involved with the leadership of Uganda (“the first purpose driven nation”) and its laws which made homosexuality a capital crime. After all, you can’t compare such things to really terrible people who … kill homosexuals.

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