Moving on…
George W. Bush is going to bash homosexuals on Monday in a big show in the Rose Garden. I plan on making popcorn. It should be about the most offensive thing seen on television since Freddy Got Fingered last aired.
The campaign against gay marriage is scheduled to get the full White House treatment on Monday — words from President Bush in front of assembled VIPs and a bank of television cameras.
Such a carefully staged production aims to confer the grandeur of the office on the push for a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. But even before administration officials announced the event, some invitees denounced it as a sham.
Of course it’s a sham. The amendment has no prayer of getting two-thirds of the Senate’s vote, and is therefore dead in the water. There is no point in bringing it up other than to use a nay vote to question whether nay-voters have a sufficient dedication to homophobia in the upcoming elections. The Republicans can put their opponents on the record as gay-lovers, and then appeal to their bigoted constituencies to throw the gay-lovers out.
Sham is a nice word for it. It is so far below the dignity of the Office of the President that I think it’ll make Monica Lewinsky gag.
It’s disgusting. Next Monday, let’s bash gypsies. Then the following Monday, Jews. Oh, wait, that would make us. . .
I like the bumper sticker I saw yesterday: “Ban Republican Marriage.”
Now that’s a bumper sticker I’d go for lol.
I’m so sick of this “gay agenda” and “defending marriage” crap. It’s all code for “I hate fags” and is no different than antisemitism wqs in Nazi Germany. There are even the same type of nutjobs out there who want to kill gays after they impose Biblical Law. It’s disgusting and vile.
“It’s disgusting and vile.”
And we need to say that, loud and often. They sure don’t hestitate to call gay and lesbians disgusting and vile. Hey, I’ll see their “disgusting and vile” and raise them, “putrid.”
Frankly, I am undecided whether the Dems should filibuster or not. If we deny them the vote we let them off the hook with having to go on the record as bigots.
Booman,
While we may in good conscience act to prevent such an atrocity occurring on the property owned by “We the People”, we can notify our own congress Persons (Senators and Representatives) that we fully expect to hear them denounce this atrocity from the floor, with a record of what they say in the Congressional Record, or we guarantee we work and donate to their opposition in the next election.
This prevents the Homophobes from hogging the floor with their vile and disgusting vitriolic rhetoric, and puts the others on notice. Blogs could follow up next week with Diaries against those who DID NOT speak against such heinous actions.
” no different than antisemitism wqs in Nazi Germany “
The Nazis had an exemplary anti-homosexual agenda as well as anti-Jew. This is where we get the pink triangle from. Plenty of homosexuals made it to the concentration camps.
Yes they did. Even more like the Nazis then.
Thanks for the reminder.
is like a bridge across time, where BushCo meets its mentors & the closet cases congregate.
Wouldn’t it be nice if anyone who supports this piece of extremist hate legislation were required to surrender their own marriage rights? You want to outlaw someone’s marriage? Fine–let’s start with yours. Laura, pack your bags, ’cause the First Lady gig is hereby abolished for the duration of this misadministration.
I’m all for it, if it involves Bush’s other wife as well — the one with the shoe fetish.
I want to have a day or maybe even a month or year bashing hypocritical “pro-marriage” senators and representatives who will say anything to win elections. I wonder if they let their 5th wives in on the strategy, or fake it with them too?
You know the biggest problem with republican religious “values” voters? Honesty isn’t something they value. I don’t understand how it’s possible to even have legitimate core beliefs that don’t begin with telling the truth.
Eventual redemption makes anything possible; fealty to the prescribed doctrine is more essential than honesty in principle.
The slate will be wiped clean for the true believers & every complete bastard who eventually sees the light is another success story — so make hay while the sun shines, gentlemen & ladies!
Yeah, my grandmother seems to have faith in her ex-boyfriend because he has made the effort since he met her to get baptized and occasionally go to church. She also still goes to visit him several times a week even though he is dating someone else now (who also goes to her church, that seems a good pickup spot for him). She also knows that he hits on my sister and tells her he wants her to have his children (which she understandably finds disgusting given the 40 year age difference and the fact that he is old and ugly).
Grandma somehow fails to see these obvious signs that he is still the same horny lying cheating old goat he was before he was supposedly saved, so yeah I have firsthand experience with the fundamentalist acceptance of hypocrisy.
Imho, this is a recipe for truly superficial religiosity — which means that it isn’t actually sustainable as a religious system, let alone a means to any redemption.
It just ain’t what they say it is. It’s an excuse to fumble around in the dark.
Exactly. Welcome to reality in Alabama, no one is exactly who they claim to be in public.
Stroke that base, boy. It’s all you’ve got left.
Heh. That could be interpreted so wrongly.
As intended. Perverse is as perverse does.
They’re not going to care. The base is going to be more pissed at losing the vote again than they will be happy with Bush for finally stepping up to the plate after years of stringing them along. This stunt is going to hurt Bush’s approval ratings.
Bush seems like a sick and twisted man. He is so afraid of homosexuality that he is out to destroy every ounce of freedom and every ounce of equality they have. Next, Bush will try to bring back slavery. I turn my back on this president; I want someone to run the country that has love for its people, not HATE and PREJUDICE.
The sword cuts both ways.
If this comes to vote, representatives will be on record as to their postion on this issue regardless of whether it passes or not.
I am sure that the The Grand Old Party decided that they could use this as election baiting- calling up the opponents records as anti-family values and by extension anti-Christian and anti-American.
But going on record against human rights and equal protection under the law most likely will backfire.
Iirc, the Turdblossom has actually stated that this is the plan. They’ve got to maek sure that the ‘values voters’ win the next election for the GOP, just as they did in 04. Gotta give the base their propers, after all, when they’re your cover.
Just had to respond to Bush’s insistence that we need an “Marriage Protection Amendment” is necessary because democracy, not “activist judges” should decide the future of marriage in America.
Married 19 years this August. Activist judges to blame.
Putrid(to use Kansas’s term)Pandering of the highest order.
Anyone wishing to counteract this denying of the right to marriage of anyone not heterosexual should frame the discussion not as marriage but making our Constitution into a framework of inequality to a specific group of people who pay full taxes but are denied a portions of rights taken for granted by Americans, who’s next? What group of tax paying Americans will next become the focus of a bigotry Amendment? While still having to pay all taxes?
Also this has nothing to do with any church being forced to perform a marriage ceremony(of course any church espousing bigotry seems an oxymoron to any teachings therein doesn’t it) as that is not a legal marriage anyway in this country-only a civil marriage is binding and legal which all the laws surrounding civil marriage applicable.
My shorter answer to this continued and relentless assault on perfectly normal people who happen to be gay is that all these uptight, bigoted pricks are fucked up anti-American asshole bastards who don’t understand the meaning of equality for all and have not a drop of human kindness or empathy for someone different than themselves and hide behind their so called religious beliefs. How bout the President coming out with a real address to the American public about 46 million Americans without health insurance, single payer system, children dying of this country due to lack of health care or hunger-now that would be speech addressing the caring of our culture of life for all Americans in this country. Denying people who are gay the right to marriage isn’t going to make the war in Iraq end any sooner, nor make less children go hungry, nor slow the infant mortality rate here nor any other problems in this country. Guess that wasn’t such a short answer after all.
These people also have no idea or choose not to know the real history of marriage through the centuries here in America and other cultures-just some pie-in-the-sky Leave It To Beaver idea of marriage that they promote as the ideal(yeah women with no rights). Nothing more than their own whacked out personal religious beliefs masquarading as inviolate beliefs of the history of marriage.
Bigoted Assholes Unite around making our Constitution stand for certain groups religious prejudice and screw the Constitution as we know it. Pander to the lowest common denominator in society and not lift us up to be what we should aspire to in terms of equality for all.
Monica gagging?…In the Rose Garden?…At Last an impeachable offense that will stick! When do the hearings start??
Bush is a traitor and should have been arrested as one the day he called for the amendment in the first place. This broke his oath of office to protect the constitution. I despise teh man with a white hpt passion. He deserves to burn in his hell for the grief and pain he has caused this country. These idiots do not realize that hate crimes across the nation and world are up because their idiot followers believe they are being asked to do it. Bush is the Furher and Rove and the rest of the gang are the nazis.
I will no more give up women’s rights than I will gay rights.
My daughter told me today that her classmates were talking about “who’s gay” in the class and she was the only one who said her mom wouldn’t care if she was gay. How sad is that!
Very sad. It tells us what parents are teaching at home and they learn it from their political and religious leaders.
Proud Gay American
I have personally witnessed 8 year olds who will not use adjacent stalls in the school restroom because they fear they will be called “gay” by their classmates.
Well, let’s see. Last month it was Mexicans. This month it is Gays.
Of course, some targets are just so delicious that they must be offered up for consumption more than once a year. . .