TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A Republican Florida lawmaker is being admonished by his own party for his response to a suggestion that gay people be put to death.
Rep. Mike Hill had an exchange with constituents during a meeting at Pensacola City Hall last month in which one man said the Bible's 1 Corinthians calls for a man having an affair with another man to be put to death.Another man said,"Can you introduce legislation?""I wonder how that would go over?" Hill said, then adding,"OK. Enough of that stuff."
"I am horrified by what I just heard, hate of any kind cannot be tolerated, Mike Hill should immediately apologize," Republican Party of Florida Chairman and state Sen. Joe Gruters wrote on Twitter . "We unequivocally condemn both the question asked of Representative Hill and Representative Hill's laughter and refusal to push back and remind his audience that this is America and we don't stone people to death," the statement said."Such callous indifference to an outrageous question is unacceptable."
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