Revealed: Top GOP aide yanks post linking same-sex marriage, child rape
Published: May 20, 2009
Updated 6 months ago
Senator praised staff last week, saying their positions were ‘in harmony’ with GOP
The chief Republican counsel for the Senate Judiciary Committee penned a blog post last month linking same sex marriage to pedophilia — and subsequently yanked it when it drew attention.
William Smith, who was installed as Judiciary chief counsel last week by Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL, above right), wrote a seething blog post last month responding to a speech advocating that the party embrace same sex marriage.
Smith was responding to a speech given by a McCain consultant and former Bush aide Steve Schmidt to the Log Cabin Republicans, a gay Republican lobbying group. In his post, Smith linked same sex marriage to child rape, bestiality and pedophilia.
“I wonder if next week Schmidt will take his close minded stump speech to a NAMBLA meeting,” Smith quipped on Apr. 20. “For those unfamiliar with NAMBLA, the acronym is for North American Man Boy Love Association.”
“Schmidt would quickly tell you that he is not advocating that we support 60 year old men in their desire to rape 8 year old boys, but he would not classify his opposition as narrow minded,” Smith continued. “No! This is a principled position; there is some logic behind it, Schmidt would say.”
“Is Schmidt then going to take his close minded stump speech to the Bestiality Club?” he added. “Again, his answer would be no, although there are a group of people who embrace this lifestyle.”
“Schmidt and other gay lifestyle proponents would say that my opposition is based on the slippery slope approach,” he said. “I say that it is based on principle and that it is no more close minded than their position for gay unions. The difference between me and Schmidt is that I’m not a maverick. I’m guided by something called Christian principles. And I don’t need people in California, New York and Washington to tell me what the principles should be.”
The discovery is an embarrassment for Judiciary Republicans, who are gearing up to fight President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee.
Smith became chief counsel for the Republicans on Judiciary after Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) replaced Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA) as the ranking Republican on the committee. Specter defected to the Democratic Party last month.
Smith’s site — where the post was made — is no longer online. The post, however, remains in a Google cache of the site. The Legal Times blog caught the cached version and noted in a post regarding Smith’s comments that the site’s domain registration matches the address and phone number on Smith’s Alabama bar registration.
The senior Judiciary Committee aide worked for Sessions from 2001 to 2006, and then became a lobbyist for Americans for Limited Government.
Sessions praised his new staff on C-SPAN last week, Legal Times notes.
“They’ll be a principled staff that [is] probably more uniformly in accord with the basic Republican view of the Constitution and law,” Sessions said. “And I think that’s healthy. The ranking member should — normally, you would expect them to have a staff that supports a majority of the [Republicans on the] committee. Sometimes, [under] Senator Specter, one member was taking our staff and promoting other agendas. So I think we’ll be more in harmony with the basic group of Republican senators.”
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seems the entire GOP has difficulty understanding the concept of ‘consent’. A child cannot consent to sex OR marriage. An animal cannot consent, either. Nor can a comatose adult etc. etc. etc. but somehow the GOP nutters IGNORE that. Evidently they have convinced themselves that a marriage between two consenting adults of the same sex somehow wipes out the entire concept of ‘consent’. And this guy is supposed to be a LAWYER? A TALENTED lawyer?
For heaven sake! What is up with Republicans and their understanding the law? Even their best lawyers seem to be clueless, talentless, semi-literate hacks.
Alabama must be so proud!
This one small piece of Alabama SO detests Jeff Sessions and his ilk that words can’t even begin to describe the disgust engendered by those close-minded, holier-than-thou, word-twisting, spinning, side-stepping bigots. And just watch ol’ Sen. Sessions, listen to the way he speaks, watch his mannerisms, and tell me he’s not deep in the closet!
I really have wondered ever since Arlen Specter defected whether that was not a plot set in motion to move Sessions up to Ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary committee — where he will rant and rave and obstruct so much better than RINO Arlen when SCOTUS appointments (and other judges) come up. Plus, they were all so sure Arlen would keep his seniority and get a plum committee chairmanship.
““They’ll be a principled staff that [is] probably more uniformly in accord with the basic Republican view of the Constitution and law,”
The “basic Republican view..” is that the Constitution is an annoying anachronism, and the law is whatever they say it is and can get by with breaking, all the while vilifying those who take exception to their unethical sleaze as ‘un-American’.
These scum-sucking sons of bitches elevate the word ‘hypocrisy’ to a whole new strata.
These republicans are low life bigots. The crap that spews out of their mouths and then they run and hide or coverup this spew. God help this country if these republicans ever get in power again.
i can explain.
if you want to know what this fight is really all about, you gotta go back to the 60s and 70s… look up allen ginsberg and andrea dworkin and the fight they had, and the philosophical differences between them.
mr gop man here is still stuck in that old mindset, and doesnt realize the subtleties or new realities. . .
How fortunate the Democrats are. Smith and Sessions have been brainwashed with bigotry sinca their childhoods. Sessions proved it when he couldn’t get out of the same committee of which he is ranking member because of his racial bigotry. He is a homophobe of the highest rank. And Smith is his lieutenant. They will be the gift that keeps on giving. They just can’t help themselves.
Smith seems to enjoy wondering about these things. Well, good for him.
As for his argument, it’s an elaborate version of “next thing they’ll be marrying horses.” Heard it before, Mr. Smith.
Newsflash, NAMBLA hardly exists anymore and has been officially marginalized by the GLBT community since the 80’s. Seems like Mr Smith just can’t get the concept out of his head.
Can’t Jeff Sessions find counsel that’s a little more on top of things?
If Smith is looking for pedophiles, he needs to look no further than the RNC. They are the ones always caught with the call boys. The Dems, hookers and adultery.
William Smith is just upset because his membership application into nambla was turned down!
I’d just like to know why people have a problem with sex with horses, the horses enjoy it, the women enjoy it… it is a form of inter-species communication, loving communication at that.