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“We were just having fun. We thought it was funny.”

Cranston, RI mayor and U.S. Senate candidate Stephen P. Laffey, defending his homophobic “satirical” college writings. In one column, Laffey wrote, “I have never once seen a happy homosexual. … [T]he homosexuals I’ve seen are sickly and decrepit, their eyes devoid of life.”

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