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GASTONIA, N.C. — Anti-gay state Sen. James Forrester (R-Gaston) passed away at Gaston Memorial Hospital on Monday. The 11-term state senator and retired Air Force brigadier general was 74.
James Forrester
Forrester had several health problems including a heart condition. His family said that he fell ill over the weekend. He was admitted to the hospital on Sunday and placed in its intensive care unit. He passed away when he was removed from life support on Monday.
A family friend released a statement to the Denver, N.C., denverncnews.com on behalf of Forrester’s family.
“It all happened suddenly,” the email read. “Yesterday, they went to the mountains and Jim lost strength in his legs. The doctor advised him to come back to Caromont for some tests.”
The family friend continued, “We all know how ill he has been, but he continued to work in the Senate. He told Mary Frances (his wife) that he wanted to go out with his boots on and support the causes in which he believed to his last breath.”
Forrester was the chief sponsor of the state’s impending anti-LGBT constitutional amendment banning marriage, civil unions and domestic partner benefits.
In early October, Forrester, a physician by trade, came under scrutiny for allegedly falsifying some of his credentials. He later proved that he’d been a past, though not current, member in several medical associations.
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Its tacky to say that you like this or to gloat about it.
Let’s not forget, an even bigger bigoted freak will take over for him.
Not ever able to be crass as this guy, all I have to say is “oh well”.
Good. Karma hit right back in his butt very hard.
huzzah!
I don’t even know how I feel. I mean, it’s better without the oppression. But who are we to wish death?
We could call this an awakening of epic proportions
May he cross-over into oblivion, never to be reborn again!
Wait ’til he finds St. Peter is gay…..
KARMA !!!
I know it’s terrible when a human being dies no matter who they are and what they believed in.
But I feel the urge to sing in the streets ‘Ding dong the witch is dead!’
the more society accepts gay people, they more these whack jobs will try more and more crazy things to stop our movement, but don’t worry one day these people will be dead and our movement will continue.
THANK GOD
fuck him, good riddens i say.
hope he enjoys his afterlife in hell
THATS AWFUL,,,,THATS TO BAD,,,,REST IN PEACE!!
no great loss another hater dead. a few more and maybe we will be recognized.. keep these closed minded people dying and we will benefit.
Karma
may god have mercy on his soul
I’d love to find that he secretly did due to Aids from taking in hustlers.
hasta la vista you biggot
Here’s to newfound hope in NC!!!!!
Now he is going to burn in hell.
Satan is rolling out the red carpet for you.
Hateful legacy. Satan will love him.
my heart pumps custard…he’ll be riding Lord Satan’s Tower O’ Power , no doubt..!
“One day our generation is gonna rule the population. So we keep on waiting, waiting on the world to change!”
What are you all doing? This is a human being, even if he disagreed with us, that’s no reason to celebrate his death. It makes us just as bad as Westboro Baptist and people like them.
Woooo Hoooo PRAISE JESUS!!!
FUCK THE “HIGHER” ROAD…… It’s time to FIGHT for what we want! I am tired of playing “fair” with STR8 666 DICKWADS who think they are “doing gods work” by HATING ME & MY PEOPLE! :(~ I thnks it is my goal in this life to take your “rights” away & see how you like it…. SIT & SPIN BITCH!
Yay! RIP. And good riddance!
Oh darn…no loss
Why is it wrong for someone to express how they feel? Who are we to tell them how to express said feelings? I may not like what you say, but I’m going to fight for your right to say it. It’s easy to preach the high road, but what makes us all beautiful is that we do not feel or express emotions in the same way. Some can’t admit they may have been rushed with the same jubilation. Kill the holier-than-thou stance. Stop throwing stones from glass houses, please.
You know what y’all? If people like Kevin want to be haters, they’re going to be no matter what anyone says. I agree though, when we rejoice in anyone’s death, we are just as bad as the Westboro nutjobs that wish death on us.
You did not distinguish the difference, Real. Glad is an emotion. Come again.
Dear Glad: How dare you presume to tell other people what to feel and what to say. Who died and made you the Supreme Boss? As for what was said here, the bastard hated us and wanted us dead. All these people are saying is that they wished him what he wished for us. Yes it is wrong to wish someone ill, but no one here is doing that. He is dead and no one here is responsible for that, so please get off our backs. If you preach, go buy a church and leave us alone.
one less bigot to spew his hatred.
Dear Glad: How dare you presume to tell other people what to feel and what to say. Who died and made you the Supreme Boss? As for what was said here, the bastard hated us and wanted us dead. All these people are saying is that they wished him what he wished for us. He is dead and no one here is responsible for that, so please get off our backs.
Sorry: we’re not obliged to “be thenthitive” when one of the bad guys bites the dust. Oppressed people have every right to celebrate when one of their tormentors goes away. The Gentle Angry People thaang has its place, but so does the iron fist.
I am kid of upset he didn’t live long enough to see the LGBT get Equality. These homophobes need to live so they can be pissed off when they lose.
well done … :) hope u burn in hell asshole :)
I don’t wish death upon anybody, though death being a fatality we will all have to go through, I say now what I said when Fallwell died: Good riddance, you won’t be missed.
Is it bad that I’m more focused on the fact that there’s a town named “Gastonia” and it’s making me giggle about the Disney Gaston?
I don’t rejoice in anyone’s death.
My sympathy to his family, loved ones and friends.
While I sort of agree it is tacky and hateful to dance on anyone’s grave, can we at least be a little joyful that we are one small step closer to a bigot-free world.
There is a God.
Hey, Real? Mental? I’m very glad (no pun intended) that both of you are competent and can discuss this like civilized human beings and not like immature children, but the fact is that he’s dead and we need to carry on with the movement.
Use your intellect for the movement instead of discussing the relevance of a corpse.
AWESOME!!! One less bigot in the world.
Karma’s your bitch.
If Karma is death, we will all pay that price. I am not happy this man is dead, I am even more saddened that his bigotted legacy lives on in so many who only wish to control because they cannot control themselves.