Missouri SecState Candidate Valentina Gomez Uses Anti-LGBTQ Epithet In Campaign

We didn't want to blog this one because there's too big of a temptation to treat it as silly campaign "rage-bait" and not take it seriously. 

And, of course, here at TKC we strive not to take anything too seriously.

Accordingly . . . We'll merely ask the question that we believe has merit in our opinion:  

Will the Missouri GOP step-in and sanction Valentina Gomez after she used fighting words in a recent social media post?!? 

Here's a link and her quote regarding women's Olympic boxing controversy that's still online as of this writing . . .

"These f*ggots don’t belong in women’s sports."

Again what's important here is CONTEXT so that we can distinguish this kind of commentary from legit 1st Amendment concerns regarding unpopular or controversial opinions:

The fighting words doctrine, in United States constitutional law, is a limitation to freedom of speech as protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.

In 1942, the U.S. Supreme Court established the doctrine by a 9–0 decision in Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire. It held that "insulting or 'fighting words', those that by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace" are among the "well-defined and narrowly limited classes of speech the prevention and punishment of [which] ... have never been thought to raise any constitutional problem."

Again, the main concern . . .

Even during the heated primary season, Missouri Republicans should consider if their party will tacitly condone fighting words and dangerous rhetoric distributed via social media?? 

Given that we were just going to blog this one as story about silly drag queen responses to the longshot candidate . . . But then the impact of her speech got the better of our conscience. 

From our perspective . . .

Here at www.TonysKansasCity.com we hoped somebody else would raise this issue but local media and most reporters in Missouri are content to politely ignore this problem and a political joke candidate despite very legit concerns about what seem like threats of violence on the political stage. 

Developing . . .