GOP Candidate’s Completely Bizarre Explanation for How AIDS Is Transmitted
Somehow Minnesota’s district 47A race for the State House has “sodomy” as one of its major issues. And boy does one of the Republican primary candidates like to talk about it with some scientifically-questionable flair.
Norwood Young America resident and businessman Bob Frey has been blasted by his opponent, Waconia Mayor Jim Nash, as being “more focused on social issues than the issues that Minnesotans care about.” Some of those issues include same-sex marriage, and homosexuality in general.
Frey told MinnPost that while he cares a great deal about taxes and business, his social views “Certainly need to be addressed for what it is. It’s not about the gay agenda but about the science and the financial impact of that agenda. It’s more about sodomy than about pigeonholing a lifestyle.”
He then gave his bizarrely inaccurate take on how AIDS is transmitted, with the underlying belief that it’s a distinctly homosexual disease due to anal sex:
When you have egg and sperm that meet in conception, there’s an enzyme in the front that burns through the egg. The enzyme burns through so the DNA can enter the egg. If the sperm is deposited anally, it’s the enzyme that causes the immune system to fail. That’s why the term is AIDS – acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.
He also sees financial problems in condoning homosexuality: “It’s about sodomy. It’s huge amounts of money. AIDS is a long term illness, causing pain, suffering, death, a long-term illness that’s very expensive to treat.”
So, there’s that.
And if this all sounds terribly familiar, here’s why: Frey’s son, Mike, became an Internet sensation in 2013 for making similar comments during State House testimony against gay marriage. Presenting himself as a “concerned father,” the younger Frey issued dire warnings about how legal same-sex marriage will lead to sodomy, which leads to ejaculation inside a colon, which specifically causes AIDS in his mind.
Watch that below:
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