Utah state senator to lose his committee chairmanship after homophobic diatribe. from Think Progress

Earlier this week, documentary film makers released the audio portion of an interview with Utah state senator Chris Buttars (R), who called gay people "the greatest threat to America going down," labeled homosexuality "a sexual perversion," and compared gays to alcoholics. Today, the Salt Lake Tribune reports that Buttars' Republican colleagues have decided to kick him out of the state senate judiciary committee:

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