Texas Politician Slammed For Tweet Despatched After Florida Taking pictures

Texas Politician Slammed For Tweet Despatched After Florida Taking pictures

Texas politician slammed for tweet sent after Florida taking pictures
FILE PHOTOGRAPH - Texas state Republican Senator Dan Patrick speaks during a meeting of the state Senate in Austin, Texas July 12, 2013. REUTERS/Mike Stone/File Photograph
AUSTIN, Texas The workplace of Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, a Republican and evangelical Christian, on Sunday deleted a tweet many saw as offensive and insensitive that was despatched out shortly after the lethal attack on a homosexual nightclub in Florida.
"Do not be deceived: God can't be mocked. A man reaps what he sows," learn the Bible verse Patrick despatched out on his official Twitter account a couple of hours after the worst mass shooting in U.S. historical past that left at the very least 50 useless.
His office was not immediately available for remark however has advised local media, including the Dallas Morning News, that the tweet had been scheduled for release properly before the capturing. The office, which recurrently sends out a Bible verse on Sundays, has since deleted it and changed with one other passage, they said.
However the deleted tweet from a politician who has condemned similar-sex marriage and fought against LGBT rights still raised the ire of those who accused Patrick of blaming the victims.
"You're a disgrace to your state on this time of nationwide sorrow. You must resign," prominent LGBT activist George Takei wrote on Twitter.
The Texas Democratic Celebration referred to as on Patrick to apologize instantly.
"Make this right. We are better than this," it mentioned in a press release.

Patrick is currently out of the country and has not but made remark to media concerning the tweet.
The brand new verse despatched on his account reads: "The salvation of the righteous comes from the Lord; He is their stronghold in time of bother."
(Reporting by Jon Herskovitz; Enhancing by Nick Zieminski)
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