# Canada: Candidate for Parliament tells High School Students: Kill the Gays. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 1, 2008, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-candidate-for-parliament-tells-high-school-students-kill-the-gays/466077 "2008-10-01T21:08:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-candidate-for-parliament-tells-high-school-students-kill-the-gays/466077/1 "2008-10-01T21:08:10Z")
[Kill gays, candidate says; High school debate audience shocked; fellow candidates say nothing](http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/CanadaVotes/2008/10/01/6941636-sun.html) > [@](#): > > SUDBURY — Police are investigating whether an independent federal candidate committed a hate crime by telling high school students homosexuals should be executed. > > David Popescu was invited to participate in a federal candidates’ discussion at Sudbury Secondary School yesterday. He made the comment after a student asked his opinion of gay marriage. > … > During a telephone interview later in the day, Popescu reasserted his view. > > “A young man asked me what I think of homosexual marriages and I said I think homosexuals should be executed,” he said. “My whole reason for running is the Bible and the Bible couldn’t be more clear on that point.” Candidates and teachers looked on in silence as students called for him to be “cut off.” Despite their outrage, the discussion moved to other topics. There are no words. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Jayn\_Newell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jayn\_Newell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayn_Newell)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-candidate-for-parliament-tells-high-school-students-kill-the-gays/466077/2 "2008-10-01T21:11:37Z")
At least as an independent he just killed any chance he had at election. I’d be more concerned if he was affiliated with a party. ---
**Author:** ![Kid\_A\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Kid\_A\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kid_A_1)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-candidate-for-parliament-tells-high-school-students-kill-the-gays/466077/3 "2008-10-01T21:25:14Z")
> [@Jayn\_Newell](#): > > At least as an independent he just killed any chance he had at election. I’d be more concerned if he was affiliated with a party. I wonder if this will cut into his support. He did receive 54 votes in the last Federal election and finished behind both the Communist and Marxist-Leninist candidates\*. \*Now that’s a debate I’d love to hear. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-candidate-for-parliament-tells-high-school-students-kill-the-gays/466077/4 "2008-10-01T21:27:00Z")
Shame on his fellow candidates. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-candidate-for-parliament-tells-high-school-students-kill-the-gays/466077/5 "2008-10-01T21:32:19Z")
Why stop with the gays? **Everybody** must get stoned! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-candidate-for-parliament-tells-high-school-students-kill-the-gays/466077/6 "2008-10-01T21:33:01Z")
He did the public debate equivalent of being that guy at the back of the bus who is obviously insane and who is ranting, punching the air and pissing himself. Everyone knows that something should be done about it; but since he isn’t actually harming anyone at the moment, no-one wants to be stuck with the responsibility of dealing with him, or knows exactly what to do. They just avoid eye contact and shuffle a few seats over. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-candidate-for-parliament-tells-high-school-students-kill-the-gays/466077/7 "2008-10-01T21:48:08Z")
I agree, **Malthus** - I’d say the guy is not paddling with all his oars in the water. What he said is a bit of a mixed blessing - at least there’s no doubt about what kind of person you’re dealing with now. ---
**Author:** ![sinjin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@sinjin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sinjin)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-candidate-for-parliament-tells-high-school-students-kill-the-gays/466077/8 "2008-10-01T22:42:05Z")
Thank you Canadians. It’s always nice when we are reminded that alllllllllll the nutters don’t live in the US. \ ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-candidate-for-parliament-tells-high-school-students-kill-the-gays/466077/9 "2008-10-01T23:03:04Z")
I bet Steve’s heart stopped just a little when he read that headline before realizing that it wasn’t one of his that said it. 😛 Now I have to go prepare to have Steve’s mother chide me for calling him Steve. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-candidate-for-parliament-tells-high-school-students-kill-the-gays/466077/10 "2008-10-01T23:52:30Z")
> [@Gorsnak](#): > > I bet Steve’s heart stopped just a little when he read that headline before realizing that it wasn’t one of his that said it. 😛 That was my reaction when when I read the title. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-candidate-for-parliament-tells-high-school-students-kill-the-gays/466077/11 "2008-10-01T23:59:08Z")
Well all sorts of morons who speak before thinking seem to live in Sudbury. ---
**Author:** ![lynxie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e99b99/32.png) [@lynxie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lynxie)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2008, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-candidate-for-parliament-tells-high-school-students-kill-the-gays/466077/12 "2008-10-02T00:15:41Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > [Kill gays, candidate says; High school debate audience shocked; fellow candidates say nothing](http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/CanadaVotes/2008/10/01/6941636-sun.html) > > There are no words. ☹ I agree. None that I can think of, anyway. Bleeuuurrgghhhhh isn’t a word, right? ---
**Author:** ![kushiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@kushiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kushiel)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2008, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-candidate-for-parliament-tells-high-school-students-kill-the-gays/466077/13 "2008-10-02T00:21:45Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > [Kill gays, candidate says; High school debate audience shocked; fellow candidates say nothing](http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/CanadaVotes/2008/10/01/6941636-sun.html) > > There are no words. ☹ I’m surprised he didn’t say we should execute with death by a thousand \cold\ cuts. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2008, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-candidate-for-parliament-tells-high-school-students-kill-the-gays/466077/14 "2008-10-02T00:22:52Z")
He was previously convicted of assaulting his mother – I wonder what his rationalization for that was? Ironic that Sudbury and the surrounding region is known as “Rainbow Country”, and the school where he made his comments is part of the “Rainbow District School Board”. ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2008, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-candidate-for-parliament-tells-high-school-students-kill-the-gays/466077/15 "2008-10-02T00:26:44Z")
Sounds like a classy, classy dude. And by classy I mean disgusting. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2008, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-candidate-for-parliament-tells-high-school-students-kill-the-gays/466077/16 "2008-10-02T00:32:43Z")
Does the bible even say that? I know it say a man doinking another man is an abomination, but does it say they are to be executed? Not that it would surprise me. IIRC the bible also says disobedient children should be put to death. Does this guy believe in that too? ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2008, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-candidate-for-parliament-tells-high-school-students-kill-the-gays/466077/17 "2008-10-02T00:37:56Z")
“A young man asked me what I think of homosexual marriages and I said I think homosexuals should be executed,” he said. “My whole reason for running is the Bible **and the Bible couldn’t be more clear on that point.** ” Guess he missed all that stuff about not judging, shalt not kill, loving others, all those inconvenient Christian details in Christianity. He’s a wingnut. A scary, hate-filled moron but unfortunately one who seems to have gained a minimal audience. I rush to add that is _not_ the slightest criticism of Canada, which has denied this moron notoriety akin to Fred Phelps. He’s…words just fail after a bit, don’t they? ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2008, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-candidate-for-parliament-tells-high-school-students-kill-the-gays/466077/18 "2008-10-02T00:44:15Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > Does the bible even say that? I know it say a man doinking another man is an abomination, but does it say they are to be executed? Not that it would surprise me. [Leviticus 20:13](http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=leviticus%2020:13&version=9): > [@](#): > > If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2008, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-candidate-for-parliament-tells-high-school-students-kill-the-gays/466077/19 "2008-10-02T01:19:42Z")
[You are stupid and suck, Piper](http://www.bible.org/page.php?page_id=283) ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2008, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-candidate-for-parliament-tells-high-school-students-kill-the-gays/466077/20 "2008-10-02T01:36:59Z")
well, I’ve been called worse… however, would you care to elaborate? am I incorrectly quoting Leviticus 20:13? is it not really in the Bible? I don’t know if it’s the passage that the candidate in the OP was referring to as the basis for his views, but it is the verse that I’ve seen cited by some other Christians who are opposed to homosexuality. in short, please explain the basis for your opinion on my stupidity and suckitude. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-candidate-for-parliament-tells-high-school-students-kill-the-gays/466077.md?page=2)