Kelly Foe In Defamation Suit: 'We Can Get You'

Paul Corbett, the man being sued by City Councilman Jack Kelly for circulating flyers in 2007 that accused Kelly of "voting with the homosexual lobby" to "promote sodomy to our youth," told a jury this afternoon that he was trying to send a message to everyone on Council that "we can get you."  Corbett was angry that Council voted to evict the local Boy Scouts chapter from its headquarters on city-owned land because the group discriminates against gay people.

Corbett said he feared that most Boy Scouts would face some homosexual indoctrination if the group agreed to follow the city's anti-discrimination law, which protects sexual orientation.  "We're talking about homosexual activity being forced on the Boy Scouts, 12-year-olds," Corbett testified. "The only way [homosexuals] can continue their culture is to get people to join them because they don't reproduce like normal people."

In case the jury missed that, Corbett said it again.  "That's they only way they get new people," he added. "They have to recruit because they don't reproduce."

Corbett circulated 5,000 flyers to 20 churches in Northeast Philadelphia, just before the 2007 general election, under the name Citizens Opposed to Politicians Pandering to Perverts.  He told the jury that Kelly's vote on the Boy Scout issue was pandering to "the homosexual lobby," which he described as a small group of people.  COPPP, he added, consisted of himself, his wife and about 30 relatives.

Closing arguments in the case are scheduled for tomorrow morning and the jury is expected to start deliberations by the afternoon.