O’Donnell walks out over gay marriage
Former US Senate candidate and Tea Party darling Christine O’Donnell has walked out of a CNN interview after being asked questions about same-sex marriage.
In a strategy similar to Republican presidential contender Michele Bachmann, who now completely avoids gay-related issues in interviews, O’Donnell at first refused to answer same-sex marriage questions on the Piers Morgan Tonight program, before walking off the set.
“You’re borderline being a little bit rude,” she told Morgan when pressed over why she refused to answer the straight-forward query.
Best known for her heavily criticised “I’m Not a Witch” campaign advertisements, O’Donnell has had a long history of anti-gay views. She’s said she believes homosexuality can be “cured,” claimed a gay ambassadorial appointee had “ties to the pedophile-rights movement,” and thinks people with HIV/AIDS shouldn’t be called victims.
She was being interviewed on the CNN program about her new book, Troublemaker, which chronicles her failed election bid in 2010.
O’Donnell claimed she only wanted to talk about her book, but then refused to say whether same-sex marriage was mentioned in it.
Watch the awkward moment below:
Crazy Teabagger !!!!….not that there is anything wrong with teabagging lol….
If this piece of work wants to go back to the social conventions of the Second American Revolution she’ll need to get out of public office. In 1812 women didn’t have the vote. They did not write books (unless they were light romances published only in their circle) and their tea parties were all about china cups and polite conversation.