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.