Florida lawmaker admits Republicans hate LGBTQ+ people

A Florida Republican state lawmaker got audible gasps when he admitted that he and other conservatives hate LGBTQ+ people.

State Rep. Jeff Holcomb (R) was speaking on Monday on the floor of the Florida House of Representatives about a bill to urge Congress to get rid of the “woke social engineering and experimentation practices” in the U.S. military.

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She has spent years accusing LGBTQ people of mutilating kids and threatening civilization.

“Isis, the Taliban, and Al-Qaeda, those are the folks who discriminate. We bombed a building in 2017 like we never usually do,” he said. “We bombed it because they threw homosexuals off that building.”

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“Our terrorist enemies hate homosexuals more than we do,” he said to stress that the hatred of Republicans supporting the bill isn’t the worst out there. “They’re the ones who discriminate.”

Video of the statement was posted to Twitter by gay former state Rep. Carlos Guillermo Smith (D), who is running for state senate.

Florida GOP Representative Jeff Holcomb says the quiet part out loud on the House floor today.

“Our terrorist enemies hate homosexuals MORE THAN WE DO.”

Audible gasping in the chamber.

And then there’s @RepSkidmore’s reaction.