Once again, children are teaching Republican leaders how to be adults.

lol……….

She should exchange her “I love New York” bag with ‘I hate queers” bag.

She should resign.  She’s an embarrassment to the city of Troy.

Grown-ups say the darndest things…

Maybe she can take Herman Cain’s place in the GOP clown show.

Getting booted from office should give her more time to post here. 

Yes, she could fill the Stonepark3 Chair for Homophobia and Idiocy

She needs to resign immediately!!

I’m sure that all 10 gay people in Troy are super-pissed.

Btw, to all you people going batshit crazy over what this random person said, have you ever said anything in your life that offended anyone? Ever? If you say no, then you’re lying.

Yeah, but we’re not public figures stupid enough to post hate speech in our real name on effing Facebook.  She needs to resign just for being an idiot.

ETA: Cool username, by the way.

I was just going to say the same thing as you said… other than his username being cool!!

What she said went beyond being merely offensive. If you substituted the N-word for “queer,” I think it’s pretty obvious that her behavior would be considered unbecoming the Mayor of ALL the people.

Personally, I think she should do the right thing and resign, but I certainly don’t think she should be forced out; I’m not in favor of people getting fired for unpopular speech, but she has to live with the consequences of that decision.

She wasn’t a public figure when the item was posted if I understand it correctly.

Why is it unacceptable for her to use the N-word? PC police need to get over themselves.

If you have a legitimate problem, posting about it on here isn’t going to help the cause. Go into the suburbs/inner city of wherever you live and actually DO stuff.

Offended anyone…yes.  Spouted some backwards bigoted shit. No.  Done same while considering running for public office…certainly not.   Shameful you felt the need to equivocate on this.  

I have and do.  But that’s a strawman.  The point is that a person who considered herself a viable candidate for public office felt it was acceptable to make those kinds of comments and failed to own up to it fully when questioned about it.  

So what?!  She is now and she harbors feelings like this?!  You don’t have to agree with gay marriage, but calling someone queer is wrong.

Should she feel mortified? Sure. But resign? HAHAHAHA

If you have a problem with the word queer, then I hope that you will respond to the sexist, misogynistic and other degrading comments that people on this site use. That would be great!

“Why is it unacceptable for her to use the N-word?”

Uh, if you have to even ask, you’ll never understand.

You’re still young. Call me in 20 years when you’re a bit more mature and let’s see if you’re as glib about that statement.

Since when are gay jokes considered homophobia – that’s a pretty big leap? Even gay people joke in this manner. If you polish off every single rough edge out of life not much is left except staring out a window with hands folded. There is no doubt a public official who does such a thing in public is a moron but it’s not bigotry.

YAY for Janice . . . . I mean I guess I shouldn’t have used such language.

Homophobia IS a projection of the homosexuals psychosis.

Homosexuality IS a mental sickness and ALL homosexuals ARE metnally sick, psychotic!.

Heterophobia: the irrational fear of having NORMAL sex.

Whether it is the ‘N’ word or the
word ‘Queer’; people who call themselves either name should cut it out!  I
hear gay folk refer to themselves as ‘queers’ all the time and Black folk who
refer to themselves as the dreaded ‘N’ word, just cut it out. You can’t keep
doing that and expect onlookers to not do the same thing.  Also I am sick
and tired of people in general stating, “If you substituted the N-word for
“queer,” I think it’s pretty obvious that her behavior would be
considered unbecoming the Mayor of ALL the people”.  I am tired of everyone who compares Black folk issues to homosexual issues.I have heard youth who are not Black
they were Asians and Latino’s as well as Black and White youth, call each other
niggers and I was mortified, initially; sadly that too has become common
in some geographical areas.

I wonder was it the word ‘queer’ that the mayor
used or was it the way she stated her humorless comment that was offensive. Maybe her remark was
made so no one would ever suspect that she is living some sort of a double life.
All politicians at some time have made ignorant statements and have run the
gamut in despicable behavior pick any city.  Her verbal statement was stupid and it is up
to her constituents to decide if she represents everyone fairly or should she
be removed through a recall election; and youth and Gay folk are both a part of
her constituents.

Do you live in a garbage can?

Janice Daniels gives LGBT people good reason then to stay away from Troy.  Unless of course, her views don’t reflect the majority of Troy’s citizens in which case, they better get rid of her fast.

Possibly, but I find it is best to ignore ignorant fools such as GC200.

“Givemefreedom”… what part of “freedom” don’t you understand? Yes, I understand that Daniels’ joke was an exercise of free speech. But with her comment, she’s advocating that people shouldn’t be allowed to do something the rest of us have the right to do. 

If you advocate freedom, advocate it. It doesn’t matter if the freedom it allows others is something you find objectionable. If what they do doesn’t infringe on your own rights in any way, then you have no business forbidding them to do it… or supporting those who forbid them who to do it… not if you ACTUALLY believe in freedom. 

This is the trouble with so-called, self-appointed patriots today. They have zero concept of what it means to be free, but pretend to themselves and others that it’s their primary cause. Just sad.

You don’t have to like homosexuality. You don’t have to recommend it to anybody. But if you really believe people have the right to be free, you have to fight for their freedom equally with your own. Otherwise, you’re nothing but a hypocrite.

What troubles me about Janice D.’s comment is that she says, in her defense, that she made the comments “before she knew she would run for office.” Meaning, if she were running for office… she would have hid her beliefs? This is only acceptable to the cynics and unethical… and the crossover between the two. 

She’s basically saying that, to get elected, it would have been acceptable to lie. And this is the great problem with politics today. Too many running for office think that it’s okay to pretend to represent the public and be full of sh*t while doing it.  She SHOULD resign… not because she doesn’t like homosexuals, but because she’s an admitted liar.

“have you ever said anything in your life that offended anyone?” 

Your “cool username” aside, what the hell does that have to do with anything? If there’s anything stupider than the “he did it too” defense, I’ve yet to hear it. My kids are still sub-10 year’s old and they know better.

Unless you’re Jesus Christ (you’re not Jesus Christ, are you?) then you don’t get to get people off for this kind of thing by saying “let he who hasn’t sinned throw the first stone.” 

Have I ever said anything that offends? Most certainly. But this woman is a public representative. If the views she expresses don’t represent the public — whether she held them prior to running or not — then we need to know about it. And if it’s offensive, she needs to be held accountable. That’s the ticket she bought when she accepted the nomination.  For anyone to forgive her for that is to not understand her function in public service. 

At least it would be more honest… I find her self-defense more troubling than  her comment… where she says that she wouldn’t have posted her true views, had she known she would be running for office. This is supposed to be consoling, somehow?

You’re awfully INTOLERANT of anti-gay people.

I’m afraid you didn’t read my post. But I guess I shouldn’t have hoped that you would, as so many who claim to believe in “freedom” today aren’t interested in what it actually means. And to think our forefathers actually sat in a hot room in Philadelphia diligently debating those very points on your behalf.

What I do not tolerate, as I said, is a politician that thinks that proper politics should permit and even require someone to lie to get elected. She is, of course, perfectly permitted to say or believe what she wants. I don’t agree with what she said, but as an actual believer in freedom, I’m willing to more than just tolerate her right to say it. I’m willing to fight for it. 

However, freedom — the real kind — requires responsibility. And for her to dismiss her own accountability for what she said “because [she] wasn’t running for office at the time” is to ignore that responsibility. And that makes her just one of many in politics that don’t deserve to hold the office. 

You will, I’m guessing, continue to make this about whether or not I support or don’t support the gay issue. If you are incapable of understanding that this is not the issue, then unfortunately I cannot help you. 

It’s unacceptable because she is an elected official, who ran for office claiming to be capable as a representative for our laws, our Constitution, and our principles. It’s one thing to go on a forum and spout off whatever bile you care to spout. It’s quite another to pretend you’re above that to get elected to public office. 

You don’t NEED anyone to read or answer a soliloquy.
You’d never fit on twitter.

Sorry, I didn’t know we were writing for the kiddie column today.

How’s this for length:

You’re ignorant by choice… how sad for you.

P.S. Sorry about the three syllable word. It means you use your freedom to choose to be dumb, and that is the pure definition of a tragedy.

Yep…I would say she is toast….along with the rest of the republicans being recalled.

Typical Republican reply….loser.

She is a loser…and she will be recalled.

Give it up…you are outnumbered here….the bitch will be recalled….she should save herself embarrassment and RESIGN!

What a long wasteful comment…nothing but useless empty verbiage.