Politico reports:
The House Education and the Workforce Committee postponed a hearing scheduled for today on the economic consequences of a $15 hourly minimum wage after homophobic and sexist blog posts surfaced that were penned by one of the Republican witnesses, San Diego State University economist Joseph Sabia.
In a 2002 post published on his personal column “No Shades of Gray” (which has since been taken down but can be accessed through the Wayback Machine, an internet archive) Sabia suggested the idea to “tax and regulate homosexual acts.”
Raw Story reports:
“Homosexual activity has been responsible for devastating health outcomes — deadly HIV, hepatitis B, and various other sexually transmitted diseases,” he wrote.
“When two random men get together and choose to have sex, there is not an insignificant risk of infection and death. And if these infected men then go on to have sex with women, then you have women — and possibly children — who will be stricken with AIDS.”
In a separate post, Sabia wrote that college girls should be considered “unpaid whores,” while writing that feminism had “taught young women that equality is achieved by acting like promiscuous sluts.”
More from Sabia:
"But first we have to mount the assault on Big Gay (no, I am not talking about Rosie O'Donnell)….
— Rebecca Vallas (@rebeccavallas) December 12, 2018
"We can tax gay nightclubs, websites, personal ads, sexual paraphernalia, and so forth… We can cripple gay-related industries & get them right where we want them….
— Rebecca Vallas (@rebeccavallas) December 12, 2018
"All gay clubs will have to feature huge, flashing warning signs like 'CAUTION: Entering this nightclub may increase your chance of contracting STDs and dying.'"
^ This was the witness House Republicans were bringing in to make the case against raising the minimum wage.
— Rebecca Vallas (@rebeccavallas) December 12, 2018