Newt: my 'gay fascism' comments were 'narrowly focused'

[Natasha]

Newt: my 'gay fascism' comments were 'narrowly focused'

http://www.pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do;jsessionid=A0587DEF63684E72C1D32B96CD67B5C6?diaryId=8544
Pam Spaulding
Tue Dec 09, 2008 at 08:30:00 AM EST

I guess this is the bullsh*t answer you give when you can't find a way to deny saying something outlandishly bigoted. Think Progress:

[Newt:]    If you go back and look at what I said, it was a very narrowly focused reference to people who were invading churches and in one case surrounding a 65-year-old person and harassing her about wearing a cross. Now, in my judgment, people who do that are fascists. And whether they are fascists on the right or fascists on the left, they're fascists, because they believe in imposing their views on you, outside the law, or they believe in using the law to force you to change who you are. And I'm opposed to fascism of any kind.