Michigan lawmaker (R) apologizes for 'agenda alert' about newspaper's gay editor

Source: MLive

State Rep. Gary Glenn, R-Larkin Township, has responded to the outcry over recent posts on social media with a public apology.

Glenn issued "agenda alerts" on Facebook and Twitter March 22 highlighting the fact that Tony Lascari, who was promoted to news editor at the Midland Daily News, is gay.

... Glenn said he "unfairly prejudged" Lascari's impartiality and said his decision to publish the post was a "snap judgement" that was "thoughtless and inappropriate to my new position."

"The 60 seconds it took on a Sunday morning to thoughtlessly cut and paste an article to Facebook is not indicative of the focus of my time, attention and judgment as a legislator," he wrote. "Voters who supported me, and those who didn't, deserve my best and most measured judgment -- all the time."

... Glenn serves as president of the American Family Association of Michigan, a conservative religious organization that opposes what it calls the "homosexual agenda." He is also one of two co-authors of Michigan's Marriage Protection Amendment, which in 2004 enshrined a ban on same-sex marriage in the state's constitution.

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