What to do with racist and homophobic Trent Lott

A couple of weeks ago at Strom Thurmond's 100th-birthday party, Trent Lott said:
''I want to say this about my state: When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years, either.'' Mr. Thurmond ran a one-issue campaign: ''We stand for the segregation of the races and the racial integrity of each race,'' declared his platform.

June 15, 1998
Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) equated homosexuality with alcoholism, sexual addiction and kleptomania. After characterizing gays as sinful, Lott said, "You still love that person and you should not try to mistreat them or treat them as outcasts. You should try to show them a way to deal with that."

The sad difference between the two remarks is this: When Senator Lott made the comments about gays in 1998, no one stood up and demanded an apology or his resignation within the administration. No one really cared because then (and now), it is still socially acceptable to dehumanize and degrade gay people. Today, that is no longer acceptable with African-American people or society at large. Hopefully in my lifetime, a time will come when homophobes such as Senator Lott are made accountable for the hateful remarks they make towards gay peopls and the actions others take in reaction to those remarks.

The remarks by Senator Lott show further what this man is all about and what he believes. He has no business representing this nation and it's people. It's time for him to move on and resign. This nation is changing all the time (mostly for the better). It's time that people who want to live in the "good old days" when this kind of behavior was acceptable move on. We do not need the hatred and bigotry they espouse.