{"id":45960,"date":"2014-10-15T16:05:37","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T22:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/15\/the-pie-wielding-threats-of-teh-gayz.html"},"modified":"2014-10-15T18:01:37","modified_gmt":"2014-10-16T00:01:37","slug":"the-pie-wielding-threats-of-teh-gayz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/15\/the-pie-wielding-threats-of-teh-gayz.html","title":{"rendered":"The Pie-Wielding Threats of TEH GAYZ!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gordon Klingenschmitt, Right Wing activist and dolt hoping to represent Colorado Springs in the state legislature next year, has decided it&#39;s just way too risky to meet with an LGBT group because, well, y&#39;know, Anita Bryant got hit in the face with a pie back in the 70s (see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dS91gT3XT_A\">Anita Bryant Pie in the Face<\/a>). Eek! Merengue! <\/p>\n<p>Anyway, he&#39;s too busy to meet with them right now about his various inflammatory comments (<a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/9EmAK1\">http:\/\/goo.gl\/9EmAK1<\/a> for a charming example), but he&#39;d be happy to do so after the election .. but only if his security detail knows the names, addresses, and other contact info for each of the potential <del>terrorists<\/del> citizens to be at the meeting, so a background check can be run on each one. Because, y&#39;know &#8230; <i>pie.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I have no idea where Klingenschmitt stands in the polling &#8212; but given that it&#39;s Colorado Springs, it&#39;s unclear that he could possibly say or do anything so zanily right-wing that it would knock him out of the running.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/gazette.com\/state-house-candidate-chastised-for-sending-insensitive-email\/article\/1539191'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/8_0JR-M4fbp97ioIeyCawNclB5-_bDLbrGCMqHGs6xKhXEZajOLQzdsA-HESNtFq2dWOXx_rAwSXpZW4CZaTd76XNOTFFV3BczV4z6cwloqxXrS7NFVQAw=w506-h303-p' border='0' \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/gazette.com\/state-house-candidate-chastised-for-sending-insensitive-email\/article\/1539191'>State House candidate chastised for sending insensitive email<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n Gordon Klingenschmitt, a Colorado Springs state House candidate who has gotten attention from making controversial statements, told three members of the Colorado Springs lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community he would only meet with them after the election and only if his\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/J2dW23AQVM4'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gordon Klingenschmitt, Right Wing activist and dolt hoping to represent Colorado Springs in the state legislature next year, has decided it&#39;s just way too risky to meet with an LGBT group because, well, y&#39;know, Anita Bryant got hit in the face with a pie back in the 70s (see Anita Bryant Pie in the Face). &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/15\/the-pie-wielding-threats-of-teh-gayz.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Pie-Wielding Threats of TEH GAYZ!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,100,353,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-dolts","category-elections-2014","category-gay-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":46777,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/06\/adding-a-bit-of-zaniness-to-the-colorado-legislature.html","url_meta":{"origin":45960,"position":0},"title":"Adding a bit of zaniness to the Colorado legislature","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 6-Nov-14 5:46am","format":false,"excerpt":"The only positive side to Gordon \"Dr. Chaps\" Klingenschmitt winning his campaign to the state House of Reps is that he's from down in Colorado Springs, and, honestly, it seems there isn't anything a candidate could say down there that would be too far to the right to get elected.http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/meet-dr-chaps-gordon-klingenschmitt-colorados-new-anti-gay-demon-hunting-state-legislator\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":44647,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/27\/oh-of-course-of-course-just-hyperbole.html","url_meta":{"origin":45960,"position":1},"title":"Oh, of course, of course, just &quot;hyperbole&quot;","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 27-Aug-14 10:54am","format":false,"excerpt":"Ah, Colorado politics, this time Gordon \"Dr. Chaps\" Klingenschmitt, first throwing out this in an email about Rep. Jared Polis, who is openly gay, offering up an amended ENDA bill that would remove a religious exemption:'The open persecution of Christians is underway. Democrats like Polis want to bankrupt Christians who\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":41976,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/13\/god-demands-moar-guns.html","url_meta":{"origin":45960,"position":2},"title":"GOD DEMANDS MOAR GUNS!","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 13-May-14 6:40pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It says so, right there in Judges 5:8, according to \u00a0Gordon Klingenschmitt, preacher, dolt, and apparently a candidate for State Representative\u00a0in Colorado Springs (of course).Though reaching Judges 5 as a whole (http:\/\/goo.gl\/f0TfIM), I confess that I don't\u00a0see how it applies to \"disarming\" the people (or invasion from Japan, for that\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":49339,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/23\/bakery-sauce-for-the-gander.html","url_meta":{"origin":45960,"position":3},"title":"Bakery Sauce for the Gander","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 23-Jan-15 8:31am","format":false,"excerpt":"A baker in Denver is facing a religious discrimination complaint after declining to put an anti-gay decoration on a cake. That's an unfortunate but inevitable result of the same laws that have led to complaints about bakers who won't decorate same-sex wedding cakes.When you open the doors for the business\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":46235,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/05\/im-relatively-happy-on-the-state-ballot-measures-at-least.html","url_meta":{"origin":45960,"position":4},"title":"I&#8217;m relatively happy on the state ballot measures, at least","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 5-Nov-14 2:30pm","format":false,"excerpt":"While the national election results were (IMO) appalling, and most of the Colorado state elections only a bit less so (it seems Hickenlooper will edge out Beauprez for Governor, but we now have Corey Gardner in the Senate, Mike Coffman is (once again) my US Rep, and Gordon Klingenschmitt fercriminysakes\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4516,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/08\/14\/this_game_broug.html","url_meta":{"origin":45960,"position":5},"title":"This Game Brought to You by the Scarlet Letter A","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 14-Aug-03 4:21pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The most interesting article I've read yet on the whole Kobe Bryant thing: the legal status of adultery in Colorado. 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