The Anti-Sam Brownback Blog

In response to the outrage over his comments about Sweden being known by their “fruits”, Senator Sam Brownback today issued a clarification stating that he did not mean it as a joke.  The Washington Post reports:

“While this biblical passage was pertinent to our overall conversation about faith and deeds, it apparently led the writer to believe I was making a joke,” said Brownback, a frequent critic of gay marriage who is pushing a Constitutional amendment to define marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

“I was not and would never do so with such a personal and sensitive issue,” Brownback said.

His explanation was greeted with skepticism by the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest gay rights organization.

“It’s nice to know that Senator Brownback doesn’t resort to name-calling from the 1970s, but unfortunately his anti-gay agenda continues to speak for itself,” said spokesman Brad Luna.

I’ll take him at his word.  I’m glad that he felt it necessary to issue this clarification and I would hope that in the future he would respond in a more rapid fashion.  It seems that he only took time to clarify once it developed into a national story.  But again, I applaud the Senator for making it clear that he doesn’t use derogatory terms to describe people of other sexual orientations.