Anti-LGBTQ Former GOP Sen. James Inhofe Dies At 89

July 9, 2024 Politics, Republicans

The Oklahoman reports:

James Inhofe, the firebrand Republican Senator whose political career covered six decades, has died, the Tulsa World reported Tuesday. Inhofe, 89, served in the Oklahoma Legislature, as mayor of Tulsa, in the U.S. House of Representatives and in the the United States Senate. Funeral services are pending.

Inhofe was the definition of a career politician, had served in the U. S. Senate since late 1994. He was is the longest-serving U.S. Senator in Oklahoma history. Before the Senate, he was a member of the U.S. House for eight years. Prior to that he spent four years as mayor of Tulsa and 10 years in the Oklahoma Legislature.

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Inhofe announced his retirement in February 2022, citing his battle with long COVID.

He was perhaps best known here for bringing a snowball onto the Senate floor as conclusive evidence that climate change is not real.

In 2012, he laughably disavowed his involvement with the US evangelical group then pressuring Uganda into enacting the death penalty for homosexuality.

Inhofe was one of the fiercest opponents of repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” once declaring that soldiers would never fight to defend a gay comrade.

He also voted against every other LGBTQ rights measure to come before him in the Senate.

He even campaigned on the basis of his anti-gay animus, once superimposing same-sex wedding cake figures over his challenger’s face.

In 1994, his campaign slogan underscored his three top policy issues: “God, guns, gays.”



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