Vallejo Mayor Osby Davis Bashes Gays

VALLEJO, CA (KGO) — The city of Vallejo may be best known for declaring bankruptcy but now it is in the headlines for comments the mayor made about gays.

“I apologize if my words were offensive, they were not intended to be offensive,” Vallejo Mayor Osby Davis said.

Davis finds himself in the middle of a controversy after an interview published this weekend in the New York Times. The article, titled “Faith and Tolerance Collide in Vallejo,” quotes Davis talking about gay people, saying, “They’re committing sin and that sin will keep them out of heaven.” He also calls Vallejo “a city of God.”

“I’m not going to discuss my faith with anybody anymore,” Davis said Wednesday.

Davis does not deny making the comments, but says they were taken out of context.

Gay Vallejo resident Charles Legalos wants the City Council to censure the mayor and says his apology is an excuse.

“I would like to hear him explain in what context those comments would be appropriate coming from an elected public official,” Legalos said.

Two years ago, Davis won a bitter mayoral race by just two votes in a recount over an openly gay candidate. Members of the gay community say there has been tension since then, but Davis says he has been a consensus builder.

“There’s nothing people can point to in the past two years of my election or course of my campaign that would suggest that I’ve been anything but fair,” Davis said.

Davis feels the controversy is the last thing his city needs. Vallejo is dealing with bankruptcy and tough financial decisions. Father Lou Bordisso, who is openly gay, is organizing a protest against the mayor, saying Davis has violated the separation of church and state.

“I think anyone in political office does not have the right to try to impose their beliefs on the population,” Bordisso said.

The mayor has asked extended an olive branch, asking for a meeting with Bordisso, but that has not yet happened.

“We need to pull in a common direction for the benefit of the city,” Davis said.

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10 Things to Know about Iran

Here is an essay talking about the Beliefs of most people when it comes to Iran and the reality that is Iran. Though people have been wrong before. Interesting though.

Belief: Iran is aggressive and has threatened to attack Israel, its neighbors or the U.S.

Belief: Iran is a militarized society bristling with dangerous weapons and a growing threat to world peace.

Belief: Iran has threatened to attack Israel militarily and to “wipe it off the map.”

Belief: But didn’t President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad threaten to “wipe Israel off the map?”

Belief: But aren’t Iranians Holocaust deniers?

Belief: Iran is like North Korea in having an active nuclear weapons program, and is the same sort of threat to the world.

Belief: The West recently discovered a secret Iranian nuclear weapons plant in a mountain near Qom.

Belief: The world should sanction Iran not only because of its nuclear enrichment research program but also because the current regime stole June’s presidential election and brutally repressed the subsequent demonstrations.

Belief: Isn’t the Iranian regime irrational and crazed, so that a doctrine of mutally assured destruction just would not work with them?

Belief: The international community would not have put sanctions on Iran, and would not be so worried, if it were not a gathering nuclear threat.

Read the responses to all these beliefs HERE

Supreme Court has a busy schedule

Cases involving US gun laws, videos depicting dog-fighting and the presence of a cross in the Mojave desert are among those expected to dominate a fresh session of the US Supreme Court which opens on Monday.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor is a new addition to the nine-member panel, replacing liberal Justice David Souter, who retired.

The court is expected to hand down rulings on the cases it considers in the spring.

Among the cases to watch out for are:

CHALLENGE TO GUN CONTROL LAWS

PRESENCE OF RELIGIOUS SYMBOL ON FEDERAL LAND – Interesting

FREE SPEECH CHALLENGE OVER DOG-FIGHTING VIDEO

CAMPAIGN FINANCE – We’re still dealing with this? If the gov’t wanted it fixed, it would have been done by now. Hell, I wasn’t even born when these REFORMS started.

CHALLENGE TO LIFE SENTENCES FOR JUVENILES

CHALLENGE TO LAW MAKING IT A CRIME TO AID TERROR GROUPS

DISPUTE OVER HUMAN RIGHTS CASE AGAINST EX-SOMALIAN PM

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