A Michigan Republican currently running for a seat to the Republican National Convention said homosexuality is a tool of Satan used to prey on innocent children.

“Satan uses homosexuality to attack the living space of the Holy Spirit,”  Mary Helen Sears wrote on a Republican site last year in a hate-filled rant.  “If the GOP continues down this trend and stand for perversions and the daily social fad,” Sears continued, “The GOP will be truly dead and Satan will have had his day.”

When asked about Sears’ remarks, Michigan Republican Party communications director, Darren Littel refused to stand by his fellow Republican’s words, saying that the party respects all people and  “these comments clearly don’t reflect those principles.”

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