A Red Lodge Republican candidate for state Legislature is apologizing for sexual remarks posted on Facebook.
Jason Priest submitted an open letter of apology to the Carbon County News for remarks he recently placed on an acquaintance’s private Facebook account.
In the back and forth of a discussion about the federal stimulus spending and economist John Maynard Keynes, Priest referred to Keynes as a “big homo” and suggested that President Barack Obama was figuratively painfully sodomizing America with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
In an unrelated incident involving Facebook, the president of the Big Sky Tea Party Association, Tim Ravndal, was ousted by his board of directors over the weekend for appearing to condone violence against homosexuals.
On July 23, Ravndal posted a message saying “Marriage is between a man and a woman period! By giving rights to those otherwise would be a violation of the Constitution and my own rights.”
That post, according to an Associated Press report, prompted another Facebook user to respond: “I think fruits are decorative. Hang up where they can be seen and appreciated. Call Wyoming for display instructions.”
Ravndal responded: “Where can I get that Wyoming printed instruction manual?”
They were apparently referring to the 1998 murder of a gay University of Wyoming student, Matthew Shepard, who was beaten and tied to a fence post.
