Maybe he's just trying to keep that 'Teabagger' slur alive. Story out of Fayetteville, Arkansas:
Fayetteville Alderman John La Tour, a Tea Party conservative and strident opponent of equal rights for gay people, is under fire for challenging an employee of a local restaurant last Friday to prove her gender and talking of how he could prove his.
A manager asked La Tour to leave Arsaga's after the incident. That led him to put a post on his Facebook page, now gone, urging people to no longer do business with the restaurant. It also spawned a heavily trafficked on-line petition for La Tour's resignation. (Today, La Tour posted a Facebook comment praising the owner of Arsaga's.)
He says he has no intention of resigning and seems to say his remark was in jest. That claim should be viewed in light of his record of insulting remarks. From the Northwest Arkansas edition of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, which got comments from La Tour confirming at least some portions of the encounter.
A Facebook post that gave rise to the on-line petition recounted the episode this way:
Yesterday fayetteville alderman John la tour ward 4 assaulted a dear friend in public demanding they choose a gender in a packed restaurant. He demanded she pick a gender declaiming loudly that he couldn't tell if she was a man or a woman. She is not transgendered and does not in any way present any ambiguity about gender in any way. She's a woman. He then explained that he was a man and could prove it by dropping his pants and showing his penis. That is bullying behavior and unacceptable on so many levels. Please call any news outlets you know and alert them to his "protests". I doubt offering to expose yourself would be considered protected speech even by the right wing activist Dugger family who funded his campaign. He should be kicked out of office. Cont.
Story from - Arkansas Times
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