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Gehrke: It’s ridiculous that Salt Lake County Republicans haven’t taken action against their spokesman for his harmful comments about LGBTQ suicide

It was a tragic case where an LGBTQ youth took his own life after losing hope, and it happens in Colorado and in Utah and across the country, because these young people are bullied and ostracized.

Contrary to what the Salt Lake County Republican Party’s official spokesman, Dave Robinson, said last week, it is not a result of gay people having “grundles of sex” with random partners.

“I actually think it has more to do with the lifestyle that the gays are leading that they refuse to have any scrutiny with,” Robinson said last week in a meeting with The Salt Lake Tribune’s editorial board.