It was only a matter of time really: Dave Wilson is sending anti-gay letters (above) to Houstonians attacking Annise Parker, who’s seeking re-election in November.
Wilson, you may remember, is the homophobic electrician who sent 35,000 fliers like the one below to Houston homes during the 2009 elections with a picture of Parker’s swearing in for her previous position as City Comptroller, her partner Kathy Hubbard at her side. The 2009 fliers asked the question, “Is this the image Houston wants to portray?” To which Houston voters resoundingly replied, “Yes!” Parker became the first openly gay person elected mayor of a top 10 U.S. city.
Wilson’s latest attack is on a much smaller scale than his full color assault from 2009: It’s a personal letter sent to Parker’s donors and Houston Democratic precinct chairs. The letter, dated May 25, reads as follows:
Dear Sir of Madam,
Annise Parker and her campaign manager want you to think that sexual orientation does not matter. IT DOES.
Being homosexual is one thing, but using your position of power to promote the homosexual agenda is quite another. In her first term as Mayor, Ms. Parker has appointed a transvestite to be a municipal judge (Phyllis Frye). She has signed an executive order that allows men dressed as women to use the women’s restroom (#1-8 Revised). She has carved out a new council district for homosexuals (District “C”).
I have family members and friends who have been ensnarled and trapped in homosexual behavior, and I know firsthand of the incredible pain and sorrow it has brought to them and their families. Religious freedom will be stifled and millions more will be trapped as the demand for legal and political approval for homosexual behavior increases.
I realize that some of you support Ms. Parker’s alternative lifestyle and agree with her promoting the homosexual agenda. But to those of you who do not, I would ask you to help me stop the promoting of the homosexual lifestyle in Houston.
It is the health, or corruption, of the moral imagination that is the most important factor in determining the future of our city. If we want to save our city we must change the direction of the moral and cultural compass that guides us.
Do we lack the courage and character to pursue and implement the wisest of ideas that promote a wholesome, righteous, and godly city for our children to grow up in? I HOPE NOT!
Please join me in recruiting a capable person to challenge Ms. Parker for Mayor.
Sincerely,
David B. Wilson
Is commentary even needed? Beyond the gross inaccuracy of calling the Hon. Phyllis Frye a “transvestite,” (Frye identifies as transgender and is legally recognized by the state of Texas as female), Wilson completely misrepresents Parker’s executive order ensuring that women may use the women’s room and men may use the men’s room regardless of what gender other people might assign them.
It may be easy to dismiss the letter as the ravings of a bigoted crank, but Wilson puts his money where his mouth is, having been a major donor to Parker’s 2009 runoff opponent Gene Locke, and he has the influence to pull other donors with him. According to Noel Freeman over at Boots on the Bayou four candidates have officially entered the mayor’s race: Parker, Bryan Carr (who, as a non-Houston resident, is ineligible), Fernando Herrera (who ran an unsuccessful Republican campaign in 2010 to unseat Jessica Farrar in the Texas House) and Kevin Simms. Expect Wilson to pick his favorite challenger in the next couple of months and start funneling money that way. Once that happens the question will be if Wilson’s favorite will keep the money (as Locke did in 2009), or refuse it.
— Daniel Williams
Aren’t they tired of the term “gay agenda” yet? Can’t they think of a more demeaning term? Can’t they write something clever? Guess not.
So can the same be said for Joel Burns? Rick Perry, if you want to run for Prez. take him with you!
people like wilson, according to psychologists – their biggest audience is themselves. As they continue to try and hide what they are – gay.
Its almost always that way.
the other kind are those whose religious culture gave us slavery, the KKK, and segregation. All per the bible of course. Their concept of America is spelled AmeriKKKa
Really? What agenda????? Welcome to the real world, we live in AMERICA. Home of the FREE. Why should anyone person get more freedoms than any other person no matter their orientation. This guy is just a bigoted homophobe who is afraid of his own sexuality. Again I pose the question, What Agenda? If people like him would worry more about their own lives instead of worrying about what goes on behind closed doors, this world would be a better place.
Does anybody understand Wilson’s thesis [It is the health of the moral imagination that is the most important factor in determining the future of our city.]? What the heck is “moral imagination”? He’s putting words together that don’t fit, so I guess he’s either illiterate or an idiot….. or both.
Absolutely disturbing this man continues to employ these tactics against Parker. It didn’t work the first time why does he think he’ll be successful this time around? More people would respond to legitimate complaints regarding substantial policies in disagreement with the mayor than with these methods. What a waste of financial resources and time.
“I have family members and friends who have been ensnarled and trapped in homosexual behavior, and I know firsthand of the incredible pain and sorrow it has brought to them and their families.”
Ensnarled and trapped? Seriously? What year is this, 1920? I have yet to hear a single gay person say that they used to be straight, but one of those sneaky evil gays ensnarled and trapped them into the homosexual lifestyle. I want people like Dave Wilson to explain IN DETAIL how you force someone who is attracted to the opposite-sex to give up the “heterosexual lifestyle”. No straight guy I know would want to do it. But apparently, Mr. Wilson is able to do so if a couple gay people pressured him to jump into bed with the next available guy.
I wonder if the gay lifestyle and agenda are any different from where I live. I also wonder why Ms. Parker would be pushing it so hard? I’m a gay man and I have what I consider to be a very boring life, working, paying taxes, making meals, keeping house, the occasional sex with my husband. I’d prefer if she’d push another lifestyle instead, one where gays are constantly winning big money prizes, going shopping, eating fabulous dinners and traveling to exotic locations to see expensive art of male nudes.
Poor thing. Complety clueless and pandering to ignorance and fear. Bless his heart.
My Big Gay Agenda:
6:30am Wake Up 6:45am Walk the Dog 7:00am Shower 7:20am Eat Breakfast 8:00am Leave for work 8:45am Arrive at work 8:50am Start to work and contribute to society 5:00pm Leave Work 6:00am Get home and eat dinner. I know, my big gay agenda threatens you….
“I have family members and friends who have been ensnarled and trapped in homosexual behavior, and I know firsthand of the incredible pain and sorrow it has brought to them and their families.”
He sounds like a self hater to me.
The harm and pain being gay has caused some of his family? I will bet you my left leg that harm has been caused EXCLUSIVELY by him and bigots like him, not by them being gay.
What this guy needs is a 15″ electric dildo up the butt for about a week.
That’ll cure him of his ranting delusions.
There is a sentence missing in the reprint of the letter below the picture. “I obtained your name and address from Ms. Parker’s campaign finance report.” I only point this out because I was a contributor and I haven’t received my letter yet. 🙂
FYI. Like many people who leave comments, preppystudent does not live in the area but likes to write negative comments about DFW for personal reasons. In another comment elsewhere on this site he wrote that he lives a few miles from the border with Mexico and dislikes DFW because it reminds him of Africa.
n then? Don’t I have the freedom of speech? I didn’t call anyone a name
And as for living in the area, I’m back for the summer, and yes I’m a registered voter in Dallas County., does that help?
I’m one of Dave Wilson’s “family members and friends who have been ensnarled and trapped in homosexual behavior”, I’m his wife’s brother.
But get this.
When I was 15 years old, Back in the 70’s, Dave Wilson kept me supplied with a steady flow of drugs while he and my sister had an affair. I stayed high the entire time I was there thanks to Dave. Dave Wilson and my sister were both married to other people at the time. I was spending the summer in Houston that year staying with my sister and her husband. Dave and my sister were seeing each other almost every night and they had me to lie to her husband that she was with one of her girlfriends. One night, I guess her husband grew suspicious and said he was leaving for the night, and when my sister called, I told her he was gone. I guess she felt comfortable enough to let Dave drop her off at her house where her husband was hiding in the bushes by the front door and jumped out and almost killed her AND ME. I spent that night in jail for being taken in for wondering around the streets of Houston because I couldn’t stay after I got caught in the middle of Dave Wilson’s adulturous affair with my sister anyway, they put me on a plane very early the next morning. Years later, they finally destroyed their marriages and got married to each other, well, after they lived with each other for years and years. Family values yeah right. Dave Wilson is a complete family values hypocrite- seriously. OMG what I know about that fraud could make someone ill.
This must be a gay forum
@Jeff I guess you’ve never heard of the “Dallas Voice”? It is the premier media source for GLBTs in Texas. So yes, you could say it’s a “gay forum.”