GOP candidate stands behind deleted homophobic tweets, says he has tons of gay friends

Terry Schilling recently announced he would be running in the Republican primary for Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District after his father, Bobby Schilling, dropped out after being diagnosed with cancer.

But one week into his campaign, the 33-year-old father of five has suddenly found himself at the center of homophobic Twitter scandal and, let’s just say, it’s not going so well for him.

In a since-deleted Twitter thread from May 2019 that resurfaced late last week, Schilling wrote: “I have zero problem explaining heterosexual sex to my kids if they ask–it’s how babies are made. Am I really a snowflake for not wanting to explain butt sex to my kids? ‘Dad, can two dads have kids together? Why do they get married? How do they have kids?’”

In a follow up tweet, he added: “‘Yes, two dads can get married and can have kids, but they have to hire a woman to implant an embryo in her uterus and carry the baby to term, then the two dads take the baby away from the mom, just like a puppy.’”

The thread continued: “Is this the conversation I should have with my kids? Parents, you’re not snowflakes for not wanting to explain the sordid world of gay couples — who really don’t get married anyway.”

In another resurfaced tweet from February 2020, Schilling pondered: “Why do trans people pick the dumbest names after they transition?”

That tweet disappeared from his Twitter page on Monday. But hours later a screenshot of it reemerged:

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