With Sharron Angle as Nevada's Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate, this race just keeps getting better. The latest?
... the Independent American Party of Nevada — is a party that Angle herself once belonged to.
The Independent American Party of Nevada was resurrected as a state-recognized party in 1992 by Angle and others ... The Reno Gazette-Journal reported in 2002 that Angle had been one of the Nevada voters to sign papers to revive the party in a drive organized by its late founder, Daniel Hansen, and that she’d remained a member until 1997.
Reading this prompted me to do a cursory Nexis search to get a feel for Angle's former party and it took just a few minutes to come up with these tidbits about their efforts in 1994 to get "The Minority Status and Child Protection Act" on the ballot. It was a measure that:
... would give Nevadans "the constitutional right to discriminate against homosexuals."
Here's just few excerpts from various Associated Press, Salt Lake Tribune, and Hotline reports:
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The state's Independent American Party (IAP), a fundamentalist Christian group, is seeking to change the state constitution to declare that homosexuality is "inappropriate sexual behavior" that does not warrant the same legal anti-discrimination protection presently provided on the basis of race, color, gender, age and national origin.
Equally as controversial as the proposed ballot question is the IAP newspaper insert that speaks of homosexuality as a "putrid indulgence," and depicts gay sex in graphically excremental terms and in language that occasionally verges on soft-core porn.
- An anti-homosexual advertising insert in the Las Vegas Review-Journal generated dozens of calls from angry readers and 48 subscription cancellations, according to the paper's publisher. [...]
Printed in red, white and blue, the insert included headlines that read "Consequences of Sodomy: Ruin of a Nation" and stories claiming HIV might be spread through water.
- ... Mabon "argued" with Las Vegas Mayor Jan Laverty Jones (D), a gov. candidate, 4/6 at Las Vegas City Hall, saying that Jones and others who opposed the initiative "were promoting child molestation"
That was found after a five minute search ... let's say this story is "developing."