Remember when the GOP stormed Congress during the last election on
the rallying cry that Obama had done nothing to fix the economy so they would
step in and make everything right for America?
Yeah. Didn’t happen. But what did happen was that a group of anti-LGBT Republicans introduced ten major anti-gay
bills, resolutions, and amendments in the U.S. House of Representatives. While
144 Members of Congress have sponsored or co-sponsored at least one of these
anti-LGBT proposals, seven members of Congress signed on to five or more of the
pro-discrimination measures.
So, who are these homophobic--all Republican, all
the time--Representatives?
- Rep. Tim Huelskamp,
a Republican from Kansas authored his
state’s constitutional amendment that banned both same-sex marriage
and civil unions; he authored an amendment to ban a directive
that would allow not force military chaplains to voluntarily solemnize same-sex
union; he authored an amendment to
“prohibit the use of funds to be used in contravention of the Defense of
Marriage Act,” and authored a bill to ban the use of military
facilities for any same-sex unions. And he didn't stop there,
because, you know, he was all done fixing the economy and stuff; he also
co-sponsored three measures just to criticize the Obama administration for
not defending the Defense of Marriage Act, to direct the Speaker of the
House to defend the law instead, and to delay implementation of the Don’t
Ask Don’t Tell repeal.
- Rep. W.
Todd Akin, a sixth-term Republican Congressman from Missouri, warned us all in 2006 that “anybody who
knows something about the history of the human race knows that there is no
civilization which has condoned homosexual marriage widely and openly that
has long survived.”
- Rep. Dan Burton,
a fifteenth-term GOP Congressman from Indiana, who is thankfully retiring
at the end of 2012, loves to say that “Marriage between a man and a woman has been the
foundation of human civilization for thousands of years all around the
world.”
- Rep. Phil
Gingrey, a fifth-term Georgia GOP Congressman, often
cites God a s his reasons for supporting an anti-gay constitutional
amendment--he's never heard of Separation of Church and State--and has
said, "I don't like the secularism that’s occurring in this
country one bit and I think it is incumbent upon those of us [that] stand
strong, to stand very strong, in regard to that and say ‘look, [my wife]
and I believe that marriage is a sacrament.’”
- Rep. Vicky
Hartzler, a first-term GOP Congresswoman from Missouri, was
spokes-bigot for that anti-gay constitutional amendment effort in
Missouri and has compared same-sex marriage to pedophilia and
letting three-year-olds drive cars.
- Rep. Doug
Lamborn, a third-term Republican from Colorado, came under fire
for racially insensitive comments that associating with President Obama
was like “touching a tar-baby.”
- Rep. Donald A.
Manzullo, a tenth-term GOP Congressman from Illinois,
recently lost re-nomination after reportedly telling House
Republican Leader Eric Cantor--another anti-LGBT GOP goose-stepping
fool--that the devout Jew was not “saved.”
And there are fourteen more House Republicans who
either sponsored or co-sponsored at least four of these anti-LGBT proposals,
and just one Democrat; and he is Mike McIntyre from, big surprise, North
Carolina, who co-sponsored a proposed constitutional amendment to anti-gay
marriage.
All of the other 143 anti-gay activists were Republicans who have also committed $1.5 million in taxpayer funds to defend the Defense of Marriage Act in
court.
This is all funny, sick, sad and twisted, when
you hear crybaby GOP goose-stepper-in-chief, and Speaker of the House, John
Boehner, downplay the Republican focus on social issues and say he'd rather
talk about jobs.
Yeah, I'd rather the GOP talk about jobs, but
they aren't. They're too busy being homophobes and bigots and haters; they
continue to be a Do-Nothing Congress.
I'm shocked none of them are from Texas. I guess Louie Gohmert isn't trying hard enough to be an asshat, which is ironic when you think about his TV appearances.
ReplyDeleteWe are pleased to not have a dog in this fight.
ReplyDeleteUgh to All
ReplyDeleteDan Burton, retire? Didn't retire once before? I believe it when that old gasbag goes and does it.
ReplyDeleteHA! If you really want to call them on their hypocrisy, Google Vietnam Draft Dodgers ... THEY'RE ALL THERE! Newt, Bush, Mitch McConnell, Trent Lott, everybody's favorite Telle Tubby Rush Limbaugh, Ted Nugent, Rudy Giuliani. It's disgusting how these self-righteous morons wave the flag and profess to love America so much and almost NONE of them served their country. My grandfather (WWI), my dad (Korea), five uncles (WWII and Korea) cousins (Vietnam) all American born Mexican-Americans, thank you. AND PROUD.
ReplyDeleteGreat post.