Well, you see, what had happened was:
San Diego City Council candidate Lorie Zapf has apologized for past comments in which she said “homosexuality is a sin” and that she wanted to keep gays out of public office.
A relative unknown, Zapf is distinguishing herself from the five-candidate field to replace outgoing Councilwoman Donna Frye, but not in the way she intended.
In a June 6, 2006, e-mail to anti-gay activist James Hartline, Zapf said, “I absolutely want to keep homosexuals out of public office and not be allowed to influence our schools, textbooks, altering marriage, children and on and on.”
Well, that’s not very nice, Lorie Zapf!
Hartline said he distributed the e-mail to media outlets this week because Zapf was not living up to his anti-gay standards.
Well, that’s predictably two-faced behavior from James Hartline!
“I chose my words poorly because clearly I don’t believe that gays should be kept from office because I have supported and endorsed candidates who are gay, strongly and publicly,” Zapf said. “Have you ever had an e-mail that you sent that, you know, pops up years later, and it was a hastily written e-mail? … My words were hurtful.”
I hate it when I write something that I totally don’t believe and then send it to James Hartline, and then get caught later when James sees a prophetic message in his Cinnamon Toast Crunch which tells him to publish it in his (EXCLUSIVE!!) report.
Haven’t we ALL been there?
“I do believe homosexuality is a sin,” Zapf wrote. “I have three homosexual first cousins. I love them all and would “be seen’ in a photo with them. I believe they all live in sin and frankly all are very unhappy people and had horrible childhoods as well.”
She added later, “For whatever reason God allowed people to choose homosexuality. So, there must be a reason for it, although I don’t get it, like so may (sic) other things that don’t make sense.”
I don’t even think she’s thought through why she doesn’t like gay people. Because that doesn’t make any sense.
Anyway, so to sum up:
Dingus lady wrote anti-gay e-mail to anti-gay gay man dressed as prophetess named James Hartline, Hartline forgot about it until he saw a prophetic message in his breakfast cereal, got mad at the dingus lady for not hating gays enough, and now he’s barking about it in the press. If you’re familiar with James, you know that the next step is public stigmata of some sort, probably in May, because San Diego in May is gorgeous.
TBogg thinks Zapf needs to atone a little bit more for her sins:
I think after she called her cousins big faggy loserfags who are going to faghell because God gave them a choice and they totally blew it, she should have said “Bless their hearts” because that would show empathy and voters love empathy… as long as it doesn’t cost anything.
Exactly. TBogg understands that real Americans act like Southerners.
Bless her heart.
Of course if she loses she’ll blame Teh Gays even though they had nothing to do with her nasty e-mail or its exposure.
Those cousins must be extremely patient if they’re willing to attend the sort of family gatherings that would result in them being seen in a photo with her.
Speaking of photos, she has put quite a few of herself on her campaign website, and she looks 1) awfully young to have such benighted views about gay people, and 2) old enough to know better than to use her two young children as props in a political ad.
Sad how the television media is ignoring this incident…
“I do believe homosexuality is a sin,” Zapf wrote. “I have three homosexual first cousins.”
Three “homosexual” first cousins, not three cousins who are homosexual. She sees them as “sin” before she sees them as relatives.
I suspect she meant every word of what she said in that email. She just wants to sweep it under the carpet now that she’s running for City Council.
First of all, no one is trying to destroy your family, Lorie. The homophobes do everything they can to destroy ours but that’s another subject entirely. We will try to deny you a seat on the City Council because it is unlikely that you’ve gotten over your homophobia since sending that email. You only regret having been caught out at it. You are doing the same thing all homophobes do, and that is to invoke “the family”. Instead of being a big girl and saying, “Yes, I sent it” sand then try to show the GLBT community things you have done to support us and fight homophobia, you whine and say that someone is trying to destroy you and your family. And anyhow you dishonour your own family by the comments you have made about your three GAY cousins (yes, dear the term these days is “gay”, not “homosexual”, and if these three people are unhappy, I’ll bet it’s because of the homophobia and the homophobia of others like you. My family may have its faults but most of them are supportive.
Tell you what, Lorie. Go to the gay community, get to really KNOW about GLBT people and their lives and concerns, make some efforts to really help us and then we can talk about backing you. Yanno, actions instead of a few insipid words…we have enough of that with Obama. Oh, and whatever you do, don’t call us “homosexuals” because its archaic, and coming from religious/politically-right types, it’s insulting.
P.S. I just read the City Beat article and it wasn’t just a “little sentence”,
Lorie”. it was several sentences in which you made your homohatred VERY clear. And to James Hartline, the biggest self-hating closet case on the west coast and a mental case to boot! sorry to say, more than a little apology is DUE THE GLBT community , Lorie.
I know the UT tried to intentionally obscure this … but this story was actually broken by SD Citybeat a day before … you should give credit where credit is due.
http://sdcitybeat.com/cms/story/detail/zig_zag_zapf/9037/
Thanks, Kyle. The U-T’s story is in reaction to our story, though they went out of their way to obscure our scoop.
Dave Maass
staff writer
San Diego CityBeat
What a scumbag…She is also endorsed by the lcoal Republican Party. But she is acting like a modeate now.