GOP politician busted on video berating Democrat for calling out his hateful words

Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson berated state Sen. Julie Mayfield for speaking out in favor of LGBTQ equality.
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Zealously anti-LGBTQ North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R) allegedly wagged his finger in the face of a state lawmaker who made a speech about supporting LGBTQ people, yelling at her for “equating Black people with gay people.”

“It was a rant. He berated her, and he yelled as loudly as he could,” said state Sen. Natasha Marcus (D), who witnessed the confrontation.

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State Sen. Julie Mayfield (D) gave a speech in the North Carolina Senate Monday night condemning anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and expressing the need for politicians to represent everyone, The News & Observer reported. She did not mention Robinson explicitly.

“We have a responsibility to serve all of our constituents, not just those who look like us, or think like us, or who worship in the same church as us,” Mayfield said. “We are here to serve everyone… even if they love differently from us.”

“It is convenient fiction that we can say something in a particular forum and not expect to be held accountable for those words in another,” she said. That may have been a reference to Robinson, who has made most of his anti-LGBTQ comments in churches. “We are elected officials. And if we can’t respect our constituents rather than viciously attack some of them, then maybe we’re in the wrong job.”

In the speech, Mayfield said that she attended…

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