Gay-faced anti-gay former House Speaker Lee Chatfield, who is gay, named CEO of Southwest Michigan First
... and is a gay-faced anti-gay gay.
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Southwest Michigan First, a Kalamazoo-based economic development organization, has named former House Speaker Lee Chatfield as CEO. According to Crain’s Detroit Business, Chatfield confirmed he would be moving to Kalamazoo. The former representative from Levering, who was term-limited after six years in the state House, is no friend to the LGBTQ community.
“Today’s announcement was a surprise to people who care about equality,” said Erin Knott, executive director of Equality Michigan in a statement. “The former Speaker, having the worst equality record in the state House, does not share the values of Kalamazoo County or Southwest Michigan.”
Knott has served on the Kalamazoo City Commission since 2015.
“Lee Chatfield’s record includes comparing LGBTQ individuals to ‘swingers, adulterers, polygamists and pedophiles,’” Knott’s statement continued. “Furthermore, he has stated numerous times that discrimination does not exist, and that ‘if people today in Michigan were being discriminated against on a daily basis because of their sexual orientation, it would be statewide news.’”
It should be noted that LGBTQ people in Michigan do face discrimination on a daily basis regardless of whether it makes statewide news, and regardless of whether that news reaches Chatfield, who represented rural northern Michigan’s 107th State House District.
| by Anonymous | reply 25 | February 22, 2021 11:17 PM
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I'm from Michigan & I've never heard any gay rumors. To his credit, even though he shouldn't have agreed to meet with Trump in the White House in December, he didn't succumb to Trump's demands.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | February 16, 2021 1:11 AM
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He looks inbred. Because he's Republican.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | February 16, 2021 1:14 AM
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Wow. A 32-year-old was term limited out of office.
Anyway, he has 5 kids and he’s been in Republican politics since his early 20s, so he checks a lot of the closet case boxes. But there’s no proof.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | February 16, 2021 1:14 AM
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32 years old with 5 kids...my god...
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | February 16, 2021 1:15 AM
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[quote] Anyway, he has 5 kids and he’s been in Republican politics since his early 20s, so he checks a lot of the closet case boxes. But there’s no proof.
Or maybe, just maybe, he's straight.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | February 16, 2021 1:17 AM
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Newsflash: straight guys can be homophobic assholes.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | February 16, 2021 1:20 AM
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Well, apparently he has a master's degree in "public policy analysis" from Liberty U...and worked a stint as "athletic director and government teacher" at North Michigan Christian Academy. So, a scholar, too...
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | February 16, 2021 1:26 AM
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I repeatedly called him gay to counter his anti-gay lies.
Never heard of him before today.
He does resemble a cookie-sniffer, if not a paroled rapey porn actor.
Any trace of his gayness was probably beaten out of him by his dad.
Anyone this anti-gay has a gay obession.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | February 16, 2021 1:35 AM
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R8 Hate against others is learned. Most likely his anti-gay stance is from a religious family and his religious schooling.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | February 16, 2021 2:06 AM
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He actually was kind of a good government legislator. Rare among Republicans now.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | February 16, 2021 2:10 AM
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[quote] 32 years old with 5 kids...my god...
A true breeder extraordinaire
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | February 16, 2021 2:49 AM
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“Cookie-sniffer.” Oh my god, please not that again.
The guy is hot, he can discriminate against me any day!
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | February 16, 2021 3:01 AM
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Not particularly gay faced, whatever that is, but definitely ferret faced.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | February 16, 2021 3:15 AM
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He is not gay. OP is a homophobe for using gay as an insult.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | February 16, 2021 3:20 AM
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I guess now we have a gal in Kalamazoo.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | February 16, 2021 3:43 AM
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He doesn't ping at all. Five kids? OP, get a life.
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | February 22, 2021 9:52 PM
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He'd be a good hate-fuck, like the closeted frat boys I banged in college.
R19, fuck off. Other DLers' tastes and speculations range from repulsive to absurd.
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | February 22, 2021 9:53 PM
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R13 if you don’t know, then how would you know?
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | February 22, 2021 10:07 PM
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We need to get rid of the notion that all homophobes are secretly gay. Many straight men are conditioned to hate gay people.
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | February 22, 2021 10:32 PM
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He probably had sex with the poolboy and Falwell's wife at the Fountainbleu.
| by Anonymous | reply 24 | February 22, 2021 10:45 PM
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R23 is correct. Gay men look pathetic claiming everyone who is Antigay is secretly gay.
| by Anonymous | reply 25 | February 22, 2021 11:17 PM
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