{"id":12678,"date":"2013-04-01T18:07:32","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T22:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=12678"},"modified":"2013-04-01T18:07:32","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T22:07:32","slug":"agema-strikes-himself-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2013\/04\/agema-strikes-himself-again","title":{"rendered":"Agema strikes (himself) again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Agema\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.detroitnews.com\/politics\/files\/Agema.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So much for Dave Agema walking back his anti-gay Facebook bigotry. After a week of claiming his posting of an article by \u201cFrank Joseph, MD\u201d decrying \u201cfilthy\u201d gay lifestyles\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=2013303280433\">was misunderstood<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 and no reason for him to resign his post as Michigan\u2019s RNC committeeman (despite party leaders running from him like the plague) \u2013 the former West Michigan Congressman was at it again on his Facebook page over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>A decorated Vietnam fighter pilot, Agema has been honored by his country \u2013 but is now dishonoring his party and American civil liberties.<\/p>\n<p>In response to Oakland County Young Republican Brad Fingeroot asking that Neanderthals like Agema adopt \u201ca more inclusive tone,\u201d Agema declined \u2013 then launched into an anti-gay attack, not hiding behind Frank Joseph, MD\u2019s apron strings this time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe real issue,\u201d wrote Agema, \u201cis the homosexual community is pushing same sex marriage which will be taught in schools as an alternate lifestyle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s keep the smut on the sidelines,\u201d responded Fingeroot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can send you reems (sic) of studies showing the negative health affects (sic) of this lifestyle,\u201d shot back Agema. \u00a0\u201dThe people of America have the right to know what lays ahead if the Supreme Court rules the wrong way. Dr. Joseph footnoted everywhere he got his information. Deal with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Scratch Agema\u2019s previous non-endorsement of \u00a0the alleged statistics on gays. The response from his fellow GOPers was swift.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dave agema _Facebook1\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.detroitnews.com\/politics\/files\/dave-agema-_Facebook1.png\" width=\"474\" height=\"85\" \/>\u201cAfter trying to hide his ignorance and bigotry for several days, Dave Agema has finally admitted he seeks to promote hate, viciousness and vitriol instead of the Republican Party\u2019s traditional forward-looking message of equal opportunity for all. Dave Agema\u2019s extremism has no place in our Republican Party,\u201d\u00a0says Dennis Lennox, the 28-year-old Grand Traverse County Republican precinct delegate who has led the call for Agema\u2019s resignation \u2013 and writes about Agema\u2019s fringe poltics &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0including Birtherism &#8211;\u00a0in\u00a0the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.themorningsun.com\/article\/20130331\/OPINION03\/130339938\/dennis-lennox-no-room-for-agema-in-the-gop#full_story\">Mt. Pleaseant\u00a0Morning Sun today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Fellow\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/article\/20130330\/OPINION03\/303300364#ixzz2PBDJCfxh\">Detroit Newse<\/a>r Nolan Finley added to the calls for Agema\u2019s ouster last Friday, writing that he \u201cjoins Todd Akin of Missouri and Richard Murdock of Indiana (in a) a caveman fraternity that must be purged from the party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ex-fighter pilot Angema just shot himself in the tail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So much for Dave Agema walking back his anti-gay Facebook bigotry. After a week of claiming his posting of an article by \u201cFrank Joseph, MD\u201d decrying \u201cfilthy\u201d gay lifestyles\u00a0was misunderstood\u00a0\u2013 and no reason for him to resign his post as Michigan\u2019s RNC committeeman (despite party leaders running from him like the plague) \u2013 the former [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,87],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12678"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12679,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12678\/revisions\/12679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}