Earlier this week, GOProud founder Jimmy LaSalvia announced that he was leaving the Republican Party because of its “tolerance of bigotry,” but in an interview with liberal radio and television host Thom Hartmann, LaSalvia went a good bit further in denouncing the GOP. On Thursday night’s The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann, LaSalvia said that the party is the “last place in America” where the “forces of intolerance” are left.
LaSalvia and GOProud co-founder Chris Barron stepped down from their leadership positions in the gay conservative organization last April, and Barron recently blasted the group as a “sad shell of an organization.”
LaSalvia told Hartmann he thought that “the anti-gay forces, and frankly, the forces of intolerance in the Party would diminish, and honestly, I’ve come to the conclusion that the Republican Party is the only place in America where they’re left.”
