Anti-Gay Sen. Diaz Sr. Has Two Gay Brothers and Cries Over Liza?

[FreeState]

http://rodonline.typepad.com/rodonline/2009/06/did-you-know-sen-ruben-diaz-has-two-gay-brothers-and-cries-over-liza.html

How did we miss this? New York Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr.—the arch-conservative anti-gay Pentecostal minister from the Bronx who is the leading opponent of marriage equality in the state—has not one but two gay brothers? Oh and Liza Minelli's voice can bring him to tears, reports New York.

"Over the Christmas holiday, Christopher Lynn, a former top Giuliani aide and founding member of the gay and lesbian Stonewall Democratic Club in New York City, took one of his closest friends, a Democratic state senator, to a performance of Liza Minnelli's Broadway show, Liza's at the Palace ... ! During the poignant rendition of Charles Aznavour's drag-queen ballad, "What Makes a Man a Man?", Lynn turned to his friend and saw that he was choked up. 'Diaz was in tears,' says Lynn. Yes, that Diaz—Bronx senator Ruben Diaz Sr., the Pentecostal Puerto Rican minister and scourge of gay marriage. ... Diaz, who has not one but two gay brothers, says, 'I'm not homophobic. I have a problem with gay marriage. I have no problem with gays.' "

Really? Perhaps that explains why Diaz Sr. once claimed the Gay Games would lead to "an increase in AIDS and homosexuality in young people."

From one of my new favorite daily blogs:)

[madrchsod]

1. really? crys to "what makes a man a man"?

closeted or just creepy.....?

[ronnykmarshall]

2. Queen PLEASE!

[Cherchez la Femme]

3. Just shows how deep bigotry can go

and how logically inconsistent and absurd those afflicted can be

Not to mention divorced from reality.

[foreigncorrespondent]

4. Someone needs to remind him...

...that Liza's beloved father was gay... and her grandfather had to move from Grand Rapids due to a gay liaison. And let's not forget the rumors about Liza's own mother, the late, great, Judy Garland! Then let's see if he is still brought to tears! Bigoted fucker!