Republican Who Said Autism Was Result of God’s Anger Over Gay Marriage Will Run for Congress Again

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Republican Who Said Autism Was Result of God’s Anger Over Gay Marriage Will Run for Congress Again
November 26, 2015 by Hemant Mehta

Susanne Atanus (below), the Illinois Republican who told a newspaper in 2014 that God put autism and dementia on Earth as punishment for marriage equality and abortion, lost her bid for Congress that year.

But she’s going to try again anyway, even if the Republican Party wants nothing to do with her.



Atanus Atanus told the Daily Herald in January of 2014:

“I am a conservative Republican and I believe in God first,” Atanus said. She said she believes God controls the weather and has put tornadoes and diseases such as autism and dementia on earth as punishment for gay rights and legalized abortions.

“I am a conservative Republican and I believe in God first,” Atanus said. She said she believes God controls the weather and has put tornadoes and diseases such as autism and dementia on earth as punishment for gay rights and legalized abortions.

Atanus’ comments were so despicable that GOP officials asked her to drop out of the race. It didn’t work. She won her primary, lost the race to Democrat incumbent Rep. Jan Schakowsky, and the Republicans lost a chance to pick up another seat in the House.

I guess I should be thrilled, then, that Atanus announced she’ll run again next year:

Susanne Atanus filed petition signatures Monday to get on the ballot as a Republican candidate in the 9th Congressional District.
Cook County GOP Chairman Aaron Del Mar says someone with the party will “for sure” challenge Atanus’ petitions in an attempt to get her removed from the race.

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“We will not support her at all,” Del Mar said. “We don’t want anything to do with her.”

That’s right. They won’t support her. They’re too busy supporting the candidates who think Mexican immigrants are rapists, that Joseph built the pyramids in order to store grain, and that being gay is a choice. Given the Presidential candidates in the Republican Party, Atanus is hardly out of place on the Right. “God did whatever idiotic thing I’m about to say next” is practically their slogan.

Schakowsky, I assume, is thrilled at her entrance into the race.


http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2015/11/26/republican-who-said-autism-was-result-of-gods-anger-over-gay-marriage-will-run-for-congress-again

[Turbineguy]

1. If she wins

they can change the spelling to "Kook County".

[beam me up scottie]

2. Yep.

How much of a lunatic do you have to be for the GOP to reject you?

[mountain grammy]

3. she actually sounds pretty mainstream Republican to me.

[beam me up scottie]

5. Unfortunately they're getting loonier every election season.

[deucemagnet]

4. The GOP really doesn't like reaping what it's sown.

I'd find it much more humorous if there wasn't a real chance some of these nutjobs might actually be elected, even to the highest office in the nation.

[beam me up scottie]

6. Yeah it stopped being funny a long time ago.

Especially since Trump is still leading in the polls.

[sakabatou]

7. Ugh...

[beam me up scottie]

8. Just when you think you've seen the worst of the Republicans

one like this crawls out from underneath a rock.

[RussBLib]

9. the face of ignorance

damn, "she" looks like Scalia.

It's really embarrassing when these asshats run for office. Even worse when they get elected.