GA Republican State Rep. Bobby Franklin Found Dead in his Cobb County Home

URGENT:  GA state Rep. Bobby Franklin (R-Cobb County), who called for felony charges if miscarriage couldn't be proven, was found dead at his home Tuesday, no cause of death released. 

Ultra-conservative Georgia state Rep. Bobby Franklin, who was instrumental in designing the current state flag, was found dead in his Cobb county home. The cause of death is not known at this time. I won't speak ill of the dead, except to remind people that Franklin was staunchly anti-gay, having compared gays and lesbians to drug dealers. He made some incendiary comments earlier this year in an interview with the Marietta Daily Journal, saying of homosexuality:

"The Bible says it's a capital offense.""You want someone with unrepentant criminal behavior?" “The church is full of sinners, but we're told in 1st Corinthians it rattled off the homosexual, the adulterer, the thief, the liar, and such were some of you, but you've been washed, you've been justified and so forth. It's not what you were. You're not punishing a thought. But do you want an unrepentant drug dealer in the military? Same thing." Source: GA Voice

There's more far-right extremist rhetoric that emanated from the lips of Bobby Franklin, including barring the state from requiring vaccinations, eliminating income taxes and replacing them with absolutely nothing, plus requiring state taxpayers to only pay in gold or silver, according to Think Progress. Wait, there's more. He recently introduced the most controversial bill of his political career -- HB1, that would “require proof that a miscarriage occured naturally” and if proof could not be provided, the mother could face “felony charges.” He also wanted to do away with driver's licenses.

Bobby Franklin, who was a right wing evangelical nutjob, graduated from Covenant College in Lookout Mountain, Ga., where he majored in Biblical Studies (surprise, surprise!). He was first elected to the General Assembly in 1996 and is survived by his wife Pat and his three children. I guess the rain really does fall on the just and on the unjust.