Tampa mayoral candidate Tom Scott doesn't take back 2005 BOCC vote against gay pride
January 13, 2011 at 8:52 am by Mitch Perry
http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/2011/01/13/tampa-mayoral-candidate-tom-scott-doesnt-take-back-2005-bocc-vote-against-gay-pride/Thomas_Scott-1In the fall of 2009, the Tampa City Council voted to add gender identity to its Human Rights Ordinance, and nobody was more powerful in speaking up for the transgendered during the debate on that vote than City Council Chairman Thomas Scott, a candidate for mayor of Tampa this year. At the time, Scott, who is senior pastor of the 34th Street Church of God in Tampa and has been a man of the cloth for over 30 years, announced that though he had never voted for any gay rights issue in the past, he was now compelled to, because he did not believe in discrimination of any kind. These were some of the powerful words he said back on November 12, 2009:
"I believe love covers multitudes. I believe that Jesus loved every person in this room. I want to ask those here:
If a person has a sex change, will you accept him at their church? Or will you turn them away? Or would you require them to go back to their original gender? Those are the questions we must ask from the religious community ... this ordinance does not address ->-bleeped-<-s, this does not allow men to go into women's restrooms ... this is not about the molestation of children ... this is about those who have made a decision and changed their gender and that they should not be discriminated against."
