Local TV coverage of Schultheis/Renfroe outrages
| By Alan Franklin - Feb 26th, 2009 at 9:43 am EST |
9NEWS, from last night's broadcast:
Channel 7:
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"The comments make me sad," President Pro Tem Sen. Betty Boyd (D-Lakewood) said. "They were very hurtful to a lot of people, particularly when you talk about a woman who might be infected with HIV to give birth to a child who would have AIDS when they were born. That was, I thought, appalling."
The Schultheis firestorm came just two days after Sen. Scott Renfroe (R-Greeley) made a comment that some have interpreted as comparing homosexuality to murder during a debate over a bill to extend state health care benefits to the partners of gay and lesbian state employees.
Channel 7:
On Monday, Sen. Scott Renfroe, R-Greeley, created a stir by quoting Bible verses that condemned homosexuality. He made his comments during a debate over extending health insurance benefits to the partners of gay and lesbian state workers, a measure sponsored by Veiga.
Penry said many Coloradans support the traditional view of marriage and defended the right of lawmakers to express their strongly held views.
Debate on the health benefits bill also rankled some Republicans. They objected to Senate Majority Leader Brandon Shaffer's comments suggesting that supporting the bill was the more "enlightened" stance.
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I remember friends of mine saying the internet would transform people in third world countries like China and Iran due to it not being under control by governments. This was over 20 years ago.
I don't think anyone at that time, suspected the internet would transform the way American politics are being played out today.
We can now see politicians as they are, and not what they only want us to see and hear through carefully staged "photo ops", as the Reagan administration did in the 80's.
Fundamental extremism is being exposed across the country for the threat to civil liberty it poses. Make no mistake - it poses the very same threat as fundamental extremism does in the middle east, only here in Colorado and Arizona, it has effect immediately.
Keep exposing hypocrisy and hatred.