Mark Robinson, North Carolina’s Popular assistant governor, dismissed a call for his quitting on Friday after he was exposed on tape calling members of the LGBTQ community “ grime.”
Robinson said he stood by his homophobic comment and claimed to Raleigh NBC chapter WRAL that right- coalition speech was being “ demonized.”
“ We'll not be bulldozed. We'll not back down. We'll not change our language,” he said. “ The language I used, I'm not shamed of it. I'll use it in the future because, again, it's time for parents in this state to take a strong podium for their children.”
Robinson made his reprehensible reflections while speaking in June at the Asbury Baptist Church in the metropolis of Seagrove.
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“ I ’m saying this now, and I ’ve been saying it, and I do n’t mind who likes it Those issues have no place in a academy. There’s no reason anybody anywhere in America should be telling any child about transgenderism, homosexuality — any of that muck,” he said in a homily at the church.
Robinson added “ And yes, I called it dirt. And if you do n’t like it that I called it dirt, come see me and I ’ll explain it to you.”
After the tape was released Wednesday, Popular stateSen. Jeff Jackson called for Robinson to abnegate, saying cognate “ open demarcation” is “ fully crummy.”
An aid for Popular North CarolinaGov. Roy Cooper also issued a statement calling the comments “ contemptuous.”
“ North Carolina is a drinking state where we value public education and the diversity of our people. It’s contemptuous to hear anyone, and especially an chose functionary, use catty rhetoric that hurts people and our state’s fame,” said mouthpiece Jordan Monaghan.
Robinson told WRAL on Friday that the governor’s opinion “ made no difference whatsoever.”
“ I'm tired of folks on the right being demonized for our speech,” he said, claiming that “ folks on the leftism burn, beat, burgle, pillage — take over entire megacities — and get a pass.”
Robinson noted that he wasn't speaking at the church in his position as a public officer. But he said that “ homosexuality and transgenderism” are “ against the tenets of my religion” and have no place in public academies.
The vid was posted on Twitter by Right Wing Watch, part of the progressive advocacy group People for the American Way.
Robinson’s exposition were “ literally dangerous” for members of the LGBTQ community, Allison Scott, director of impact and creation for the Juggernaut for Southern Equality, told WRAL.
“ Whether that's his meaning or not, it's his words that are actually painting the picture that we as a group shouldn't be. There are real impacts to words, and the real impacts are the damage and hurt in people’s lives,” Scott advised.
A mouthpiece for Robinson initially endeavored to soft-pedal his analysis, saying they only “ appertained to education.”
“ Contents circling transgenderism and homosexuality should be agitated at home and not in public education,” mouth John Wesley Waugh said in an card to WRAL. “ We must center on reading, line, and mathematics in North Carolina.”
Waugh wrote that Robinson “ affirms every being’s constitutive right to identify or express themselves in anyway they ask.”
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