Massachusetts State Senate Wannabe: I'll Stop Using "Faggot" If It Implies Hatred

Republican Ted Busiek, currently running for Massachusetts state senate, is calling himself an ally of coarse language and an opponent of the LGBT community in the aftermath of a Twitter scuffle that's landed him in hot water.

In a tweet last week, Busiek used the word “faggot” in referring to former Rep. George Miller of California, someone he now admits he doesn't know very much about:

DONALD TRUMP. Putting self-righteous faggots in their place since 1993. How I love this fellow.#MAGA https://t.co/wqCxfa4pI2

— Ted Busiek (@TedBusiek) July 2, 2016

Busiek doubled down on the use of the word "faggots" today in a blog post saying he only meant it to mean "obnoxious."

Busiek goes on, however, to declare himself an "opponent" of the LGBT community.

“If we’re talking about private citizens, I don’t really ‘feel’ towards them in any way. I don’t reckon that it’s my business to. In a meritocratic world, people will rise or fall on a more substantial basis than what they do in their bedrooms. However, if by ‘LGBT community’ we mean an organized political advocacy group, then I’ll declare myself an opponent. That ‘LGBT community’ has been a socially–destructive disaster.”

The comments on Busiek's blog post are quite the read.

Here's a report from a Massachusetts local Fox affiliate:

Massachusetts: GOP State Senate Candidate Ted Busiek LIkes To Use The Word "Faggots"

Ted Busiek

Raw Story has the details on current Republican Massachusetts state Senate candidate Ted Busiek, who recently praised Donald Trump for "putting self-righteous faggots in their place."

Oh - but Busiek didn't mean "faggot" as a slur, however that works.

MSNBC’s All In With Chris Hayes pointed out during a broadcast last week that Trump had complained to the Native American affairs subcommittee in 1993 that some reservations did not deserve to receive gaming licenses because “they don’t look like Indians to me.”

Ted Busiek, who is running for Massachusetts Senate, responded on Saturday by lauding Trump’s remarks.

“DONALD TRUMP. Putting self-righteous faggots in their place since 1993. How I love this fellow,” he wrote.

Busiek later insisted to State House News Service that he did not use the word “faggot” in a “hateful sense.” The candidate said that term was used to show that the congressman questioning Trump was “obnoxious” and “kind of being a jerk.”

“It’s hard for me to get exercised over naughty words,” he explained. “You can insult somebody without being hateful.”

Busiek, who opposes same-sex marriage and adoption rights, said that he was standing up for “anybody who works for a living,” especially those who had “oppressor status” for being white, male and wealthy.