On 15 August MySA, a San Antonio News Paper, shared an insider’s view of what really goes on behind closed doors when District 9 Councilwoman Elisa Chan meets with her staff. According to the paper, A former aide to the Councilwoman, James Stevens, secretly recorded a meeting with Chan and her staff to discuss an updated to the city’s nondiscrimination policy to include sexual orientation and gender identity.
This recoding brings to light, not only behind-closed-door homophobia, but a larger problem with politics in general. It seems too often politicians are more concerned with keeping their jobs rather than addressing political issues and serving those who have entrusted them to represent them in our political system.
Stevens sums up Chan’s political ambition succinctly :[space]
Chan “is only focused on her political future,” he continued. “She’s not focused on the policy itself and how it’s going to really affect the city. We spent 80 percent of that meeting talking about how disgusting homosexuality is.”
— James Stevens
Here are just a few of Chan’s unsavory morsels from the recording:
“This is my philosophy, guys,” she says. “Whatever you want to do in your bedroom is none of my business, but do not impose your view on other people, especially becoming policy … because personally, I think it’s just disgusting just to even think about. All the definitions. …
—Elisa Chan
“If you wanted to choose that lifestyle, we don’t want to discriminate you, but you shouldn’t affect the young people,” she continues. “How terrible. … They’re going to be confused. You see two men go into a bedroom. You see two women kissing. Is that not confusing? It’s confusing.
—Elisa Chan
At one point her staff reminisce of the good-ol’-days when “gay sex used to be against the law.” Be careful what you wish for, Sweetie, remember there was a time in this country when mixed marriages were illegal and we put our own citizens into concentration camps for looking too “Pacific Rim.”
