Bob McDonnell Cited Michael ‘Porn Makes You Gay’ Schwartz in His 1989 Thesis

Poor Taliban Bob McDonnell - he just cannot seem to escape issues surrounding his Christianist blueprint for governing. Now it turns out that - h/t to The Washington Independent for noting this - Taliban Bob cited Values Voter speaker and certifiable nutcase, Michael Schwartz, as a credible authority. Indeed, Taliban Bob cited Schwartz twice, once on an article Schwartz wrote about daycare, once for a piece of political thinking about the “division between those whose conservatism is defined by dollar signs and those whose conservatism is rooted in the family.”

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For those who do not know who Schwartz is a longtime conservative activist-turned-Congressional Hill staffer who talked about the gay-making powers of pornography at the Values Voter Summit (coven) last weekend. Here's what Schwartz said on that issue via Talking Points Memo:

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In an infamous moment at the Values Voter Summit over the weekend, captured on video by Dave Weigel, Sen. Tom Coburn's (R-OK) chief of staff Michael Schwartz made the case against pornography. "All pornography is homosexual pornography," said Schwartz, quoting an ex-gay friend of his, "because all pornography turns your sexual drive inwards."

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Schwartz then explained the side benefit of this finding -- that if boys know pornography will make them gay, they'll never touch it, taking advantage of what Schwartz sees as a natural homophobia. "And if you tell an 11-year-old boy about that, do you think he's going to want to get a copy of Playboy?" he said. "I'm pretty sure he'll lose interest. That's the last thing he wants!"

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Is this the kind of craziness we want in the Governor's mansion in Richmond? I think not!!! Watch the video: