A former Reagan administration aide is calling for southern U.S. states to secede from the nation over that region's more conservative stance on same-sex marriage and other rights pertaining to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community.

Douglas MacKinnon made the remarks in an interview with Janet Mefferd while promoting his new book, The Secessionist States of America: The Blueprint for Creating a Traditional Values Country…Now, Right Wing Watch is reporting.

And the interim name for the breakaway region? None other than "Reagan."

"If you do believe in the Golden Rule, then you're seeing all of this unravel before our eyes daily, unfortunately," he said. "If you happen to make a donation in favor of traditional marriage, you can lose your job. If you happen to refuse to bake a cake for a gay couple because it goes against your religious beliefs, you can be driven out of business."

He also hinted at former football coach Tony Dungy's controversial remarks regarding Michael Sam, who became the first openly gay man to be drafted into the NFL, in his argument.

"If you're a football commentator and you happen to just say, innocently, that maybe I wouldn't have drafted a gay football player because I wouldn't want to deal with the distraction," he said, "many people on the left would try to drive you out of your job as well."

Earlier this year, MacKinnon sparked controversy after penning an editorial for the Tampa Tribune in which he claimed that the Walt Disney Company has a "pro-gay agenda" and was engaged in an effort to "indoctrinate" children.

Citing a former Disney executive, MacKinnon claimed that the entertainment and theme park empire was "introducing openly gay characters and couples in its children's programming" and "[incorporating] the colors of the gay pride flag in as many shots as possible."

If you take all the inbred Red Welfare States with you, all yours.

We'll close all the Federally funded facilities, eliminate all the Federally funded jobs, pull back all the Federally provided money, subsidies, resources, infrastructure, and military assets and we're good.

Git Sum Wrote:
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> If you take all the inbred Red Welfare States with
> you, all yours.
>
> We'll close all the Federally funded facilities,
> eliminate all the Federally funded jobs, pull back
> all the Federally provided money, subsidies,
> resources, infrastructure, and military assets and
> we're good.


Reagan was a senile terrible president but a good speaker.The fact that a senile man could be president it was paved the way for Bush 2.

Git Sum Wrote:
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> If you take all the inbred Red Welfare States with
> you, all yours.
>
> We'll close all the Federally funded facilities,
> eliminate all the Federally funded jobs, pull back
> all the Federally provided money, subsidies,
> resources, infrastructure, and military assets and
> we're good.


There would be nothing left worth anything.

If you are a legal citizen, registered to vote. Please do. We should all exercise that right at every opportunity.

However, you may want to wait until the 4th of November. The "first Tuesday in November", not Sunday the 2nd.

Git Sum Wrote:
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> We'll close all the Federally funded facilities,
> eliminate all the Federally funded jobs, pull back
> all the Federally provided money, subsidies,
> resources, infrastructure, and military assets and
> we're good.

Hey now, the South in and of itself provides an important military assest: cannon fodder.