Daily Kos Writer Repudiates Support for "Lesbian" Kaitlyn Ashley Hunt
Robert Stacey McCain writes at American Spectator:
A staff writer for the prominent progressive site Daily Kos has repudiated her support for Kaitlyn Ashley Hunt, the Florida teenager whose sex crime case became a cause célèbre of the gay-rights movement in the past week. The 18-year-old on Friday rejected prosecutors’ offer of a plea bargain on charges of lewd and lascivious conduct with a 14-year-old girl, meaning the case could go to trial next month in Indian River County.
The story gained nationwide attention after Hunt’s family claimed Kaitlyn was a victim of anti-gay prejudice and launched a "Stop the Hate, Free Kate" campaign that has been supported by the American Civil Liberties Union, the gay-rights group Equality Florida, and the 501(c)3 non-profit Purpose Foundation. . . .
"Daily Kos journalist Joan McCarter had enthusiastically endorsed the 'Free Kate' movement, publishing a May 20 article that described Hunt as being victimized 'simply because . . . she fell in love with a younger girl who has vindictive bigots for parents'," McCain writes. "However, in an update appended to the article Thursday, McCarter admitted that 'public scrutiny of this case' had contradicted much of what inspired her original article."
Note: McCain's article contains sexually explicit language.
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