Steven Andrew, "pastor", on how God controls the US economy: "Christians are called to unite the GOP with Rick Santorum. This is because the Bible says that Mitt Romney opposes Jesus Christ and Christians. Romney is against everything the USA was founded upon. God promises to fix the economy if we vote for mature Christians. God says that the economy declined for taking God out of government, 53-plus million abortions and homosexual sins. Christians understand God controls the economy because He says so in 2Chronicles 7:13-14. Do you believe God? He sends prosperity for obedience and famine for sins"
Now, I'm not a Bible scholar, not by a long shot, but I don't think either Mitt Romney or Rick Santorum, appear by name in that book.
And I don't remember the part where God says she'll fix the US economy if we vote for "mature" Christians.
I do, however, believe there is a hidden, Eleventh Commandment, Thou Shall Not Be A Delusional Asshat Using The Name Of God To Promote Your Idiocy, and I believe Steven Andrew has broken that one.
Walter Mondale, former U.S. Vice President, on Minnesota's proposed Constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage:
"Our constitution is a hard-earned gift from those who preceded us, and an enduring promise to those who will follow us. It should be used to protect individual liberty, not to take it away."
You cannot call all men equal and then deny them rights.
Doesn't work that way, even in Minnesota.
Mitch McConnell, Republican Senator from Kentucky, says he's filibustering 17 judicial nominees because Harry Reid is making Republicans look bad:
"This is just a very transparent attempt to try to slam dunk the minority and make them look like they are obstructing things they aren’t obstructing. We object to that. We don’t think that meets the standard of civility that should be expected in the Senate. And, so, any effort to make the minority look bad or attempt to slam dunk them that is sort of manufactured as this is is gonna, of course, be greeted with resistance."
Hey Mitch?
Put on your big boy pants and do the job for which you were elected: represent the people of this country.
Failing that, unzip, whip it out, measure it, and declare a winner, because this is all just typical GOPIsm, posturing and posing and accomplishing nothing.
Bishop Thomas Tobin, on same-sex marriage:
"God created two different genders for a reason--so that males and females could come together, complement one another, procreate, and continue the species. And be very clear about this--same-sex marriage isn’t about procuring civil rights for beleaguered homosexual persons. The recently adopted civil-unions legislation, as ill-advised as it was, it provided the legal protections activists have been lobbying for, but the opportunity has been widely ignored. Same-sex marriage legislation is about distorting a venerable institution – not about civil rights. Please be assured, dear readers, that if the debate over same-sex marriage finds its way to the State House once again, the Diocese of Providence, joined by its allies in our community, will be fully engaged in the battle. We will work hard and pray hard for the defeat of this immoral, misguided proposal that erodes the foundation of our society and offends the moral values we cherish."
Playing the ruination of civilization will come because Adam and Steve can get married card?
Not gonna fly, "Bishop". It's hate, it's bigotry, it's intolerance, it's Catholic.
It's wrong.
Bill Keller, "evangelist", on who's really responsible for Tyler Clementi's death:
"Anderson Cooper, Rachel Maddow, Ellen DeGeneres, the media, and gutless pastors are guilty for the death of Rutgers student Tyler Clementi, not Dharun Ravi! It is those in the media who glamorize and promote this choice as normal and acceptable, along with gutless pastors too afraid to speak out against this sin, and faux churches that glorify this deviant, unnatural, and unhealthy choice of sexual activity, who are the real guilty parties in Clementi's death. While those in the media want to blame people like myself who take a Biblical stand on this issue, the fact is, they are the ones most responsible!"
Hmmm, I didn't see Elene videotaping a private encounter between two consenting adults and then sharing it with the world.
Didn't see Anderson or Rachel do it either.
Sounds to me like Bill Keller wishes he'd gotten his hands on that video so he could watch it over and over again in the privacy of his in-home confessional, with a box of tissues and some hand cream.
Tammy Baldwin, on her Wisconsin Senate run and whether her sexuality might be a factor:
"This November, people in Wisconsin will be so focused on getting by. They’ve made serious adjustments to deal with this economy — whether it’s the recession or the decline of the middle class before then. I feel so strongly that that’s what’s going to be on people’s minds."
Smart people don't really care if someone is gay or not, especially when it comes to running for office.
They want someone who will work for them, to, oh I dunno, lower taxes, fix the economy, make life easier.
Or maybe that's just me.
Jimmy Carter, in his new book, about homosexuality, the Bible, and marriage equality:
"Homosexuality was well known in the ancient world, well before Christ was born and Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things -– he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies. I draw the line, maybe arbitrarily, in requiring by law that churches must marry people. I’m a Baptist, and I believe that each congregation is autonomous and can govern its own affairs. So if a local Baptist church wants to accept gay members on an equal basis, which my church does by the way, then that is fine. If a church decides not to, then government laws shouldn’t require them to."
Amen, Jimmy, Amen.
Rick Santorum, on what he'd say to Dan Savage if they ever met:
"I would tell him that I'm praying for him. He obviously has some serious issues. You look at someone like that who can say and do the things that he's doing and you just pray for him and hopefully he can find peace."
Oh, he's found peace, Frothy.
He's simply trying to save it from people like you who would seek to shove him back in a closet somewhere.
Dan Savage, on Santorum's plan to pray for him:
"Rick Santorum thinks that women who have been raped should be compelled—by force of law—to carry the babies of their rapists to term, he thinks birth control should be illegal, he wants to prosecute pornographers, etc., etc., basically the guy wants to be president so that he can micromanage the sex lives of all Americans...and I'm the one with issues? Because I made a dirty joke at his expense eight or nine years ago and it stuck? I'm the one with issues? Okaaaaaaaaaaaaaay. Rick can pray for me. I'll gay for him. And we can call it even."
Rick doesn't have "issues" he has whole "subscriptions."
But, let's all Gay For Santorum.
I think he could use it.
Howard Schultz, Starbucks CEO, responding to NOM's complaint about his company's support for marriage equality:
"Any decision of this type or magnitude has be made with great thoughtfulness and I would assure you that a senior team at Starbucks discussed this. To be very candid with you, this was not something that was a difficult decision for us and we did share this with the board as well. [snip] We made that decision, in our view, through the lens of humanity and being the kind of company that embraces diversity."
Smack.Down.
Now, go to Starbucks and order one of those crazy sounding drinks with the weird sizes.
Tammy Baldwin, again, on Obama's "evolution" on marriage equality:
"Look, he is moving in the right direction on this issue. He’s been crucial in equality efforts like the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and signing the Matthew Shepard hate crimes prevention act. I have no idea what goes on in another person’s mind. As a legislator, I need to be good at persuading people, counting votes and getting to 50 percent plus one. I don’t go back and say, 'Why did this person get to the right position?' It’s only 'Are you yes or are you no?'"
The more this woman speaks the more I feel we need to get her elected.
Common sense makes a comeback!
Rosie O'Donnell, on the virulently anti-gay GOP:
"We’re a backward nation in many ways. That’s one of the ways most evident nowadays especially with the election--to think you can turn on the presidential debate and you can have people actually say they think being gay is wrong is shocking in 2012. It’s shocking to me. I remember being at home and announced we were engaged and being in Chicago and getting overwhelming support from everyone and watching [the Perry anti-gay] ad saying I don’t believe you people have the same rights as other people in this country. That’s not what America was founded on. It was hurtful and shocking. In the wake of teen suicides and gay bullying, I don’t understand why politicians or anybody thinks they can get away with that.”
The fact is, they can't get away with it. Support for marriage equality is on the rise. DADT is dead, and DOMA will soon follow. The GOP and goosestepping, jackbooted asshats like Perry and Santorum, are merely pandering to the vocal fringes.
They'll soon learn how out of touch they are, and will come pandering back this direction.
Andrew Sullivan, on Obama's critics:
"Under Obama, support for marriage equality and marijuana legalization has crested to record levels. Under Obama, a crucial state, New York, made marriage equality for gays an irreversible fact of American life. Gays now openly serve in the military, and the Defense of Marriage Act is dying in the courts, undefended by the Obama Justice Department. Vast government money has been poured into noncarbon energy investments, via the stimulus. Fuel-emission standards have been drastically increased. Torture was ended. Two moderately liberal women replaced men on the Supreme Court. Oh, yes, and the liberal holy grail that eluded Johnson and Carter and Clinton, nearly universal health care, has been set into law. Politifact recently noted that of 508 specific promises, a third had been fulfilled and only two have not had some action taken on them. To have done all this while simultaneously battling an economic hurricane makes Obama about as honest a follow-through artist as anyone can expect from a politician."
Word.
Repeat every time someone says he's done nothing.
Ethan Sabo, a 22 year-old self-described homocon, on "those" gays:
“Here’s my main thing with gays. You want people to accept you, you want people to give you rights, and you want people to be nice to you. And yet when I go out in public, you guys are the most sickest, nastiest people I’ve ever seen. You make sure you flaunt your gayness in front of everybody. I’ve never met a gay person on the right that goes to a gay pride parade, gets naked, or puts little bootie shorts on and walks around. Never seen that. You wonder why people hate you, you wonder why people don’t like you, you wonder why people spit on you and beat the living crap out of you all. You wonder why? That’s why."
Wow.
Self-loathing much?
Um, Ethan, you mindless fuck. Not every gay man is like you described, on the left or on the right. We are all kinds of people, with all kinds of experiences, morals, values,. ethics, and for one of our own to label us as such, and to infer that if we get beaten or spit upon it's somehow our own fault, is reprehensible.
Mindless, little, self-loathing fuck.
Bill Maher, on Rick "Frothy Mix" Santorum's fixation on gay sex:
"This guy thinks about gay sex more than any gay man in America. There's a guy down in West Hollywood working down at Dorothy's and Dildos who does not think about gay sex as much as Rick Santorum."
Seriously.
I mean, I'm a big flaming queen and I don't think about gay sex all the time, or talk about it all the time.
Methinks maybe Frothy wants an experience, but I cannot imagine a single homosexual willing to take that on.
Nancy Pelosi, on gay Republican taunting of Barney Frank:
"Oh, but what about them? He chooses a party that supports his values. They've chosen a party that supports their income--a party that denigrates them and treats them with disrespect."
At a New year's Day party, one topic of conversation was the LCR. And not one person, of the gay or straight variety at this gathering, could understand being a gay Republican.
I understand being conservative. I'm far from it, but I understand it. But to wish to team up with a party that basically stomps on you every chance they get makes absolutely no sense to me.
Mitt Romney, playing the Don't Hate Me Cuz I'm Rich card:
"You know, I think it’s about envy. I think it’s about class warfare. When you have a president encouraging the idea of dividing America based on the 99 percent versus one percent — and those people who have been most successful will be in the one percent — you have opened up a whole new wave of approach in this country which is entirely inconsistent with the concept of one nation under God. The American people, I believe in the final analysis, will reject it."
Here's my take: I don't begrudge Mittsy for being rich. What I begrudge is his John McCain-esque sense of entitlement about the White House, in that he thinks because he's run so often for office he somehow deserves it.
I resent his statements about being unemployed like a lot of Americans when he's worth $250 million. I resent him acting as though $375,000 in speaker's fees is "not much" when it takes a lot of people ten to twenty
years, YEARS, to make that much.
I resent that his wealth has made him so out of touch.
And such a dick.
Suze Orman, on marriage equality and the GOP:
“Obviously, it is no secret that I’m gay. So it is very difficult for me to look at any Republican nominee and go, ‘that’s who I want in office.. My social issue affects my financial issue. And the reason why it affects my financial issue is that if I die, Kathy [Travis]--my partner--is going to lose 50 percent of what I have because we can’t be married."
Again. This is what I mean about the LCR.
They cannot have the best interests of the LGBT community in mind when they turn to the GOP.
They just can't.
Pat Buchannan, on why MSNBC fired him:
“Look, for a long period of time the hard left, militant gay rights groups, militant — they call themselves civil rights groups, but I’m not sure they’re concerned about civil rights — people of color, Van Jones, these folks and others have been out to get Pat Buchanan off T.V., deny him speeches, get his column canceled.”
I love how he gets fired because he's a racist, homophobic pigfucking douchenozzle, and then he gets all racist and homophobic and pigfucking and douchenozzle-y trying to explain how he isn't a racist homophobic pigfucking douchenozzle.
Bye Pat. Pigfucker.
Dan Savage, on the LGBT community and the GOP:
"America is waking up to the fact that we're not bogeymen, and we're not coming to do any harm, and that we're your daughters and sons and neighbors, sometimes your parents, your co-workers, friends, colleagues. The Republican party, in this desperate [nod] to its dying evangelical base, is just ramping up the homophobia, and they're doing themselves real long-term damage. What's interesting is that, you look at who's been doing the most hate speech: Bachmann? She's out. Herman Cain? He's out. Perry? He's all but out. Santorum? He's running fourth, he's trailing even in conservative South Carolina. It's not winning them the election anymore. It's not 1992; Pat Buchanan can't get up and give a 'gay rights never, family values forever' speech at the Republican National Convention anymore. Times have changed."
As usual, I agree with Dan.
The times are changing. People are beginning to see that marriage equality doesn't hurt anyone' that DADT was a hug mistake. That DOMA is discriminatory.
The tide is shifting people. Can you feel it?
Mike Reynolds, Oklahoma state lawmaker, on reinstating DADT for members of the National Guard:
"It doesn’t say if you are gay you can't join the military, if you are gay you can’t be in the military, what it says is don’t go out there and promote it. It was a policy that was in place for 16 years and nobody except a couple of radical activists found any harm in the policy and as a pay off for those radical activists for helping him become elected, President Barack Obama chose to reverse the policy.”
Nobody except a couple of radical activists found any harm in people being fired for being gay?
Oh, Mike, you're Sally Kern in a cheap suit.
Oklahom-ophobic asshats, both of you.
George Clooney, on marriage equality:
“It is astonishing that gay and lesbian Americans are still treated as second-class citizens. I am confident that, very soon, the laws of this nation will reflect the basic truth that gay and lesbian people--like all human beings--are born equal in dignity and rights......I think the world is changing and it's becoming less and less of an issue and I think it shouldn't be long now," Clooney said. "I think younger people are looking at this like, 'Who cares?' I do believe it's generational, much like the civil rights movement. Young people started taking to the streets and things changed. This really is the final leg of the civil rights movement."
This is what I'm most looking forward to, is the day when all of these folks fought against equality, realize they are on the losing side, and switch teams to act as though they always supported LGBT rights.
We have a long memory, bigots.
Bill Keller, televangelist AKA Christian used car salesman, on Mitt Romney and Mormons:
"Romney and Mormons will quote from the Bible to further their deception of being a Christian, but don't believe the Bible is the inspired, inerrant Word of God as Christians. Instead, they view the Bible as a flawed and incomplete book, using the writings of Mormon founder Joseph Smith, the Book of Mormon, the Pearl of Great Price, the Doctrines and Covenants, as their theological authority. Romney and Mormons also view Biblical Christians as inferior to those in their 'church.' Romney also believes in Smith's 'White Horse Prophecy' that states the nation will be in chaos, a Mormon will become President, and under the guise of saving the union set aside the US Constitution and enact a Mormon theocracy. These fantastical beliefs are why Romney and Mormons are no more a Christian than a Muslim is!"
Wow, one fell swoop and he denigrates Mormons and Muslims, all in the name of Jesus and God.
They would be so proud.
David Furnish, Elton's husband, still complaining about Madonna's Golden Globe win:
“I think it was a fluke . . . When this happens you have to question the integrity of the awards. Did Madonna get the Golden Globe because she attended the awards and agreed be a presenter? Can you sing Madonna’s song? Can you hum it? It’s a song nobody has heard, from a film few have seen. The award should have gone to Mary J. Blige or Elton. I like Madonna’s music, but not her movies. She should stick to what she is good at.”
Wow, is there anything worse than a queen with a grudge?
Let it go, David.
Build a big gay bridge and get over it.
Scott Lively, on the Southern Poverty Law Center calling his Abiding Truth Ministries a hate group:
"My prayer, as one who really does hate irrational prejudice, is that the Lord by His sovereign power will remove this dangerous, hate-spreading organization from our nation and cause its leaders and members to repent for their wickedness. I want to make clear that I am asking God himself to destroy their organization."
Does anyone else find it ironic that a man who fronts a group that has been designated as a hate group and tries to persuade the public that it's not a hate group, asks God to destroy something?
Oh, Scott, you are a hate group. You are.
Brian Brown, on 2012 being a "make or break year for marriage":
"Already this year, major new pushes to legalize same-sex marriage have erupted in Washington State and New Jersey. And with just days left before the South Carolina primary, we are at a critical moment in the race for the GOP nomination for president. NOM is committed to making sure voters have a marriage champion who will stand as a clear alternative to President Obama this November. Remember, we are fighting to stop a small group of zealots from discarding 3,000 years of human history and redefining our country's biblical traditions on sex and marriage as the equivalent of bigotry. If we lose, the result will be the absolute destruction of marriage in America...in your state, in my state, in all 50 states!"
Keep goosestepping Brian Brownshirt.
Like the Nazis, you are on the wrong side of history.
