According to the chairman of the Bexar
County, Texas Democratic Party gay activists are to blame for his
party's recent poor showings, gay
weekly the Dallas Voice
reported.
Chairman Dan Ramos suggested as much
last week in an interview with the San Antonio Current, in
which he blasted Stonewall Democrats, the nation's leading group of
gay Democrats.
“They are all connected to the gay
Democratic Party, the so-called Stonewall Democrats,” Ramos told
the paper. “Just like termites they managed to get some of their
people in key positions.”
Ramos, who said he opposes being gay on
religious grounds, added: “I liken them to the Tea Party – the
Tea Party and the fucking Nazi Party – because they're 90 percent
white, blue-eyed, and Anglo, and I don't give a fuck who knows that.
Just like the blacks … they're American, but you can't get your way
just because you're black.”
His comments caught the attention of
Boyd Richie, chairman of the Texas Democratic Party, who called on
Ramos to resign.
“What is necessary is for Dan Ramos
to immediately resign and allow the Bexar County Democratic Party to
move forward with new, more unifying leadership,” Richie said in a
statement.
In an interview Thursday with local
news station KSAT 12, Ramos refused to resign, saying he was “dealing
with the truth, sometimes the truth hurts.” (The video is embedded
in the right panel of this page.)