City Official Resigns After Shocking Anti-LGBT Religious Rant At Public Meeting
A Sammamish planning commissioner who said LGBTQ+ people are “poisoning our kids” among other homophobic statements, resigned on Monday amid condemnation from the city and residents.
At the June 1 public meeting, Planning Commission member Wassim Fayed asserted that members of the LGBTQ+ community are “promoting diseases and infestation into the minds of our kids in schools” during a nearly six-minute-long tirade. “People were created certain ways.
But then to club certain people who choose a certain lifestyle and say they are among the minority, I don’t believe that is the right thing,” Fayed said.
Citing his Muslim faith, he denounced Pride Month, calling LGBTQ+ people “some of the most wealthy, the most connected people.” “I don’t believe that LGBTQ should be part of the minority,” Fayed added. “These are not a minority people who are disenfranchised.” “These are people that are promoting diseases and infestation into the mind of our kids in schools,” he continued, parroting right-wing misinformation about the LGBTQ+ community. “I don’t believe this is a right way of life.
