Rep. Don Young offends Alaska students

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Longtime Alaska Rep. Don Young's reputation for irascibility was on full display during an appearance at Wasilla High School on Tuesday, when the Republican congressman offered some thoughts on suicide and same-sex marriage that students and faculty members at the school deemed offensive.

Young, 81, spoke in the school's theatre for fifteen minutes before taking questions for 45 minutes, according to Alaska Dispatch News. The session began normally enough, but it veered off course when a teacher asked Young for his thoughts on suicide just days after a student at the high school took his own life.

Young, according to Wasilla Principal Amy Spargo, mentioned alcohol and depression as factors in many suicides, but he added that a lack of support from friends and family is sometimes to blame.

The remark was not well received.

And the congressman shocked some of the students when he was asked about why he opposes same-sex marriage and he compared it to bull-sex.

"You can't have marriage with two men," Young said, according to Spargo. "What do you get with two bulls?"

Thoughts about what he said?