Alabama mayor apologizes for Facebook post about killing LGBTQ community.
A mayor in Alabama has apologized for a Facebook post suggesting that homosexuals, abortion rights advocates and others should be killed.
Chambers faced swift backlash online for the post and for an exchange with one of his Facebook friends. According to screenshots, Chambers responded:"The only way to change it would be to kill the problem out. I know it's bad to say but without killing them out there's no way to fix it."“I don’t think I posted that," he told NBC affiliateQuestioned further by the station about the Facebook page — which contained birthday greetings and pictures of his family — particularly about whether someone was posing as him on the social media platform, he said,"I don't know.
The Human Rights Campaign in Alabama on Tuesday condemned the mayor's remarks, describing them as"horrifying, unconscionable and unacceptable."
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