Florida’s Attorney General Pam Bondi, who has spent most of the year trying to stop the progress of marriage equality has been named ‘Loser of the Year’ by the Tampa Bay Times this week.
Twice-divorced Bondi was re-elected in November 2014, previously claimed in a legal brief that “disrupting Florida’s existing marriage laws would impose significant public harm”, and would cause “significant financial and logistical problems”.
The Tampa Bay Times wrote, “It’s hard to imagine how someone who won re-election so handily (rival George Sheldon could not afford a single TV ad) could emerge from 2014 more wounded and diminished as our Republican attorney general. Put aside the unseemly junkets funded by groups seeking to influence her. Bondi’s clumsy communication skills and relentless defense of Florida’s gay marriage ban have made her a modern-day Anita Bryant. Antagonizing Florida’s gay voters over same-sex marriage and Hispanic voters over immigration reform ensures Bondi has a bright political future ahead of her — if she moves to Mississippi.”
Bondi has repeatedly denied claims of homophobia – saying that she has gay friends, reports Pink News.
The politician said: “People always talk about personal views, it has to do with an Attorney General doing her job. It is my job.
“I have a lot of gay friends, I can tell you I sat in a church and took pictures when one of my friends adopted two little boys from Russia before you could adopt legally here in Florida. I took the pictures at the baptism.”
What the hell do you expect from a state which is 42nd in funding public education…..Einstein’s??????
Condemns gays but according to the New Testament she is an adulteress and a fornicator. She is on “traditional marriage” 2 1/2 (living is SIN!!!)
The best analysis I’ve seen of events on the marriage front in the last few weeks in Florida is in “Equal Human Rights and Civil Rights for All Persons, No Matter Their Gender, No Matter Their Sexual Orientation: An Interpretive Newsletter” (www.humciv.com). See Reports 38a, 38b, 38c, 38d, 38e, and 38f there.
It is time for another boycot of Florida orange juice!