BALTIMORE, Md. — Maryland Republican lawmaker Donald Dwyer, a vehement opponent of same-sex marriage and LGBT rights, has admitted to being under the influence of alcohol when he crashed his boat into another boat carrying four adults and five children.
Dwyer’s boat collided with the other boat on the Magothy River in Maryland on Wednesday around 7 p.m.; Dwyer was accompanied by one male passenger, identified as John Moran IV, a former police officer.
Donald Dwyer
Seven of the boat’s nine passengers were transported to area hospitals.
A five-year-old girl was the most seriously injured; she was airlifted to Johns Hopkins Children’s Center in Baltimore via MedEvac helicopter. Authorities said her injuries are not life threatening. Dwyer himself was also injured and he was transported to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore.
Sgt. Brian Albert, a spokesman for the Department of Natural Resources Police, said investigators had suspected alcohol was a factor in the accident.
Dwyer has been a vocal opponent of LGBT rights in Maryland.Earlier this year, during a debate on the state’s same-sex marriage bill, Dwyer told fellow lawmakers that the legalization of nuptials for gays and lesbians in Massachusetts in 2004 indoctrinated the state’s public school students on homosexuality. He also told a legislative committee that any state delegate that testified in favor of the bill should be “arrested for perjury” because saying that gay people deserve equality “is a lie and they know it.”
Dwyer has also introduced several measures that would have amended the state constitution to define marriage as solely between a man and a woman.
In March, Dwyer made headlines by calling for Maryland’s Attorney General, Doug Gansler, to be impeached. Dwyer said Gansler violated his oath by allowing same-sex marriages from other states to be recognized in Maryland.
At a news conference Thursday, Dwyer expressed regret for his actions. In a statement, he revealed his blood alcohol content was 0.2 — more than twice the legal limit for operating a motor vehicle.
Dwyer sat in a wheelchair with a neck brace on and a cast around his left foot during the news conference. He spoke from prepared statements and answered no questions from the press corps before being wheeled back into the hospital by a nurse.
Dwyer could face several criminal charges if police blood tests confirm his blood alcohol content was 0.2. In addtion, Maryland law stipulates that a legislator convicted of a felony crime or a crime of “moral turpitude” must relinquish his or her seat.
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does it really freaking matter if this asshole is “gay” or is it more important that his stupid self was DRUNK while operating a vehicle, weather
karma?
Oops!!! Careful there, Donny boy!!! GAY Paramedics and nurses might have helped your ignorant arse, as well as the victims you created. .20? Nice, AssHat.
Straight, Gay, Bio, Trans. or whatever else is out there they haven’t found yet…your sexual preference has nothing to do with ones ability to drive….but alcohol or any other mind altering substance does.
so what?
He shouldn’t be able to be a lawmaker anymore. If your in Gov’t you need to be held to a higher standard. You should be charged just like anyone else. I hate this guy. You know why? He is boldy saying that one group of Americans deserves to be second class citizens without equal rights. He is one part of why America is the way it is. Why do people hate on LGBTQ so much?
Laughing my freakin’ ass off
Poetic justice.
nothing to laugh about. kids were hurt. this guy is a dick head
ya THINK?
Don’t want to be judged and called names? Then don’t label everyone as pro- or anti-gay…This was a congressman driving a boat under the influence. No labels needed.
@stephanie knauff if you wanna preach that you are holier than tough then you run the risk of being judged… He condemns others but should look at him self closer …especially if he is a hater … Judge not lest ye be judged … So I we judge
I think anyone in a position of power who does this sort of thing needs to be removed immediately
I think anyone in a position of power who does this sort of thing needs to be removed immediately
Typical of bigots
Why hasn’t he been removed already? This trash could have killed those children. But then I guess a drunk Christian republican is still better then a homosexual . Trash
Wait. He was gettin trashed on the boat with another dude who used to be a cop. Hmmmm. I wonder if they had or were planning on doing body shots. I feel for all the individuals on the other boat as they were just out having a great time until this dick plowed into them. Too bad he didn’t fall over and drown.
Gee, he cares so much about children and family values he happily gets drunk then crashes his boat into another boat with a happy family going about their own business. What a wonderful role model for family values.
The comments here make me realize that folks need to see the documentary “Outrage. ” to see why people ate pissed @ this bigot. As someone pointed out, he was on the boat with another guy ! Hmmmmm? !
So much for “family values”, eh?
Self hating closeted gay man, that is all.
What an ass.
dumb ass
A self righteous bigot who devalues another human beings right usually get caught in their own snare and ends up exposed.
Makes no statement about our cause that he did it, says lots about him though.
gooe he belongs in a wheelchair
KARMA
Too bad he didnt drown