Your Asshat of the Week: Peter Sprigg

Our asshat nominees this time out included a donut chain, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish wingnut, a humor columnist who just isn't very funny, and last but not least Peter Sprigg, senior "fellow" from Family Research Council.

Sprigg won, but if your curious by how much and what exactly he did to take the buttocks crown, read on!

Here are the voting results for this week's poll.

As you can see, Peter Sprigg took this thing in a landslide, thanks to his rant against Harvey Milk's posthumous receipt of a Presidential Medal of Freedom.  Said Sprigg, it "may mark the first time in history that the nation's highest civilian award has been granted primarily on the basis of someone's sex life....Milk is famous only for winning one election, being murdered – and having sex with men."

You can read Sprigg's full rant here.  

We usually announce new asshat nominees on Friday in editor Michael Jensen's Best Gay Week Ever column, but he's on vacation this week, which means lucky Mr. Sprigg gets to wear the asshat crown for two weeks unopposed!

We'll be back with a new selection of Asshat Smackdown nominees in the Auguest 28th BGWE.