Washington Senator Mike Hewitt's Office Says The Gays Should Fend For Ourselves In The Face Of Discrimination

We all know that Washington State has some pretty cool politicians because they passed marriage equality there last year and, well, the state hasn’t fallen into the sea or succumbed to earthquakes and such.

But, while most people are okay with The Gays and marriage, we all know that Barronelle Stutzman was not. As the owner of a flower shop she gladly took money from The Gays for flowers for years, but then, lo and behold, when a gay couple asked her to do the flowers for their upcoming wedding, suddenly Stutzman conjured up the Baby Jeebus and he told her not to do floral arrangements for The Gay Marriages.

Then Washington state decided to get into the act and charge her with discrimination—which is what she’s doing—and then the Washington state Republicans decided to push their snouts into the mix and are working to pass a bill to make discriminating against The Gays legal. Yes, they want to make discrimination legal.

Well, Jay Castro, a reader of Slog—from whence this post came… see HERE—called Washington state Republican Senator Mike Hewitt's office to ask about Hewitt's co-sponsorship of that bill to legalize discrimination of The Gays and Castro says he was told this:

“Gay people should be prepared to fend for themselves.”

Now, Jay Castro, and most people capable of rational thought, knows that the likelihood of a bill legalizing discrimination will not likely pass, but Castro was concerned that other businesses might try to follow the lead of Barronelle Stutzman. So, during his round of phone calls to legislators, he posed this question:

"What are rural gays supposed to do if the only gas station or grocery store for miles won't sell them gas and food?"

And he says a staffer at Hewitt's office replied:

"Well, gay people can just grow their own food."

Yes, we can grow our own food if stores refuse to sell to us; we can make our own clothes if a department stores ban us; we can form our own colony, hopefully surrounded by barbed wire, when people won’t rent to us, or sell to us. This is what the asshats in Senator Hewitt’s office suggest The Gays do.

Castro asked the staffer’s name, but the man refused, and reportedly said, "I don't have to tell you that," then, "Don't call here again," before hanging up the phone.

Again, this bill will most likely never pass because, well, people, most people, aren’t that stupid in Washington, but it does raise the question of what some legislators and their office staff would like to do to The Gays.

Round us up and put us in communes where we can exist alone without bothering anyone. What was that thing that happened the last time people, who were deemed different, were rounded up and sent away?

Yeah. Of course, that won’t happen here, right? It couldn’t, right?