Antigay lawmaker muses on going “elbow deep” with gay people to “plant a seed… oozing with love”

It’s 2020 and the Senate Majority Leader from Minnesota still thinks sexual assault and bad parenting turn children gay and that conversion therapy is a positive thing that more people should explore.

In a newly resurfaced interview with Christian extremist/televangelist Andrew Wommack, Sen. Paul Gazelka makes a number of outdated and, frankly, ludicrous claims about LGBTQ people.

Gazelka, who once sent his own daughter to a “pray the gay away” clinic, gave the hour-long interview back in November, but it only recently came to light after the Minnesota Reformer published a story about it.

In the interview, the 60-year-old lawmaker spoke at length about a lesbian he knows who “was chained to a toilet as a like 2-, 3-, 4-, 5-year-old girl and raped by her dad, for years and years.” As a result, he said, she turned gay.

Gazelka also said he spoke to a gay man once who didn’t have a father figure growing up and was instead raised by his mother and grandmother. “We actually had a conversation that we could talk about the issues around the why and the what,” the senator said.

Later in the interview, things turn weirdly homoerotic when Gazelka described politics as….

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