An essential voice is conspicuously absent from discssuons about gay-bashing remarks by former state Rep. Dave Agema, Jack Lessenberry says in a Michigan Radio commentary.
Gov. Rick Snyder has remained noticeably silent. . . . "I'm not going to get in the middle of all that," he said Monday. . . .
That is unacceptable.
Dave Agema is not merely a crank; He is Michigan’s Republican National Committeeman. That makes him one of the state GOP‘s two top representatives to the national party. Unless top state Republican officials denounce him, they are -- at least by implication -- endorsing what he said.
The kerfuffle, now in week three, began with a Facebook post March 27 by Agema "based partly on the writings of an anti-Semitic Holocaust denier who has a history with the Ku Klux Klan," as Lessenberry recounts.
For a Republican official not to take a stand against Dave Agema’s post is to imply acceptance of it. . . .
Like it or not, it is Governor Snyder’s time to decide.
