October 27, 2010 02:10 AM UTC

Buck: I'll Meet With Gays If I Win

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• by: Colorado Pols

Are we reading what the Colorado Independent’s John Tomasic reports correctly? Seriously?

Gay rights group One Colorado hand delivered a petition to GOP U.S. Senate candidate Ken Buck’s Denver office Tuesday bearing 1,500 signatures requesting he retract his statement that homosexuality is mostly a lifestyle choice. On Meet the Press two Sundays ago, Buck said genetics might predispose humans to same-sex attraction but that they might resist such attractions the way alcoholics resist drinking.

According to One Colorado Director Brad Clark, Buck campaign consultant Will Adams told One Colorado representatives that Buck would consider taking a meeting with One Colorado to discuss the matter “if [Buck] won the election.”

Oh yeah, that’s going to have the desired effect.

Note to candidate spokespersons everywhere: if your candidate makes a bunch of people mad right before the election, don’t tell them to go away until after you “win” the election. What you’re actually doing is suggesting to those people a really good reason to–wait for it–not go away.