Republican Loudoun-sanity Continues: Dick Black Rails Against Gays in the Military

This interview with former Virginia Delegate Dick Black (R-Loudoun), now running for State Senate, is truly shocking, even by this crazy election season’s standards. Perhaps we shouldn’t be shocked, though, given Black’s history and also given the name of the group conducting Black’s interview – “Americans for Truth About Homosexuality” (“dedicated to exposing the homosexual activist agenda”). Can we say “obsessed?” Can someone call the men in the white coats, stat?

Anyway, listen to the interview yourself and see what you think. Highlights include Dick Black (yes, that’s really his name) riffing on the supposed evils of gays in the military – increased HIV and AIDS, ogling and fondling in the showers and the foxholes, and worse! Listen to this, starting at minute 21:00.

I recall one particularly terrible situation, where, this was in basic training, there was a young fellow who went to the showers at night, and there were two homosexuals lurking — they were also basic trainees – and they strangled him with a towel and forced him to submit to, you know, things that we won’t talk about on the air. But it was extremely brutal, it was extremely humiliating, and they taunted him when they were finished. And at the time of the court martial of these guys, the victim was in psychiatric confinement at a hospital. Now, this is what we’re asking the mothers and fathers of America to send their children into, is that sort of environment, where sexual bullies will prey on the smallest and least assertive soldiers.

So, there you have it. Let gays serve openly in the military, and before we know it, predatory homosexuals will be lurking everywhere, ready to commit their dastardly deeds!  

At another point in the interview (15:25), Black claims that allowing gays in the military will cause “deaths on the battlefield,” apparently by their mere existence. Even worse will be (22:30) “these homosexual predators that will be unleashed by the administration’s policy on gays in the military.”  On and on the insanity and bigotry go. Where it stops, who knows, maybe the State Senate for Dick Black?

Meanwhile, just as Rep. Frank Wolf (R-10th) has strongly supported another Loudoun County Republican extremist, Eugene Delgaudio, Wolf also strongly supported Dick Black with both money and a ringing endorsement (Wolf praised Black as  “a vital member of my team” and urged his reelection). Also see here for the Loudoun County Republican Committee’s photos and account of a lovely little pancake breakfast they held a couple weeks ago, at which Frank Wolf hung out with his pals Dick Black, (homosexual obsessed) Eugene Delgaudio, State Senator Jill Holtzman Vogel, Del. Tom Rust, Del. “Sideshow” Bob Marshall, LCRC Chairman Mark Sell (so extreme that even the right-wing blog “Too Conservative” said if he was elected, it would mean “a return to the Dark Ages” in Loudoun County), 10th CD Chairman Howie Lind (a member of the “Purity At All Costs crowd”), and other assorted wingnuts.

Basically, it’s a cornucopia o’ crazy in the Loudoun County Republican Party, and Frank Wolf’s an important part of it – enabler, funder, endorser, etc. The question is, how does Wolf get away with masquerading as a “moderate” while supporting a bunch of bigots and extremists? And how is it, exactly, that Wolf bears no responsibility for homophobic bigots and extremists like Delgaudio and Black, both of whom Wolf has supported in the past, and continues to support to this very day?

P.S. Part II of the interview, including lost more anti-gay ranting by Dick Black, is available here. Everything you always wanted to know about “the homosexual agenda” and the evils of gays in the military, Dick Black’s your man!