Rachel
Maddow, on the
Republican Party needing to make some tough decisions regarding their positions
on LGBT issues:
"You apparently cannot support something like
non-discrimination for gay people and have any future in Republican Party
politics. Nobody who has any real prospects of being a national leader in
Republican politics in the next few years has anything other than 100% anti-gay
policy position on something like non-discrimination... And that is awkward
given that the country, as a whole, is in a really, really different place than
that."
Listen up, Marco, Rand, Frothy, or you’ll be sitting on the sidelines
again when another Democrat takes the White House.
Michele
Bachmann,
claims the GOP is dead should immigration legislation pass:
"We will never again have a Republican
president — ever — if amnesty goes into effect. We will perpetually have a progressive
liberal president, probably a Democrat...You will never again be able to see
our country return to its constitutional foundations."
And the problem with that is ...... ?
Lindsey Graham, our own Senator from South Carolina, and So Not Gay,
says the GOP is dead should immigration reform not pass:
"If we don’t pass
immigration reform, if we don’t get it off the table in a reasonable, practical
way, it doesn’t matter who you run in 2016. We’re in a demographic death
spiral as a party, and the only way we can get back in good graces with the
Hispanic community, in my view, is pass comprehensive immigration reform. If
you don’t do that, it really doesn’t matter who will run, in my view."
Even the GOP cannot agree on what the
GOP should do.
This is gonna get good, y’all!
Barack
Obama, at his annual LGBT Pride Month reception at the White
House:
"In 34 states, you can be fired just because
of who you are or who you love. That's wrong. We've got to change it. There's a
bipartisan bill moving forward in the Senate that would ban discrimination
against all LGBT Americans in the workplace, now and forever. We need to get
that passed. I want to sign that bill. We need to get it done now. And I think
we can make that happen -- because after the last four and a half years, you
can't tell me things can't happen."
If we are all believed to be equal, then we should all
be treated equally, especially in the workplace.
Max
Baucus, the Democratic Senator from Montana, on ENDA:
"When it comes to the workplace, it is unacceptable for
anyone to be fired simply because of their sexual orientation. ENDA will help
protect workers from this type of discrimination and I look forward to moving
forward on this legislation in the Senate as soon as possible. Members of the
LGBT community are our neighbors, brothers, sisters and friends. They are
community leaders who bring the kind of diversity to our nation that makes it
strong. We all have a role in making sure that Pride Month is not just
something we check off on the calendar. 'Life, Liberty and the pursuit of
Happiness' for all Americans is what we are called to strive for every day of
the year."
Okay, so Montana’s on board, let’s
get this done because the right thing to do will always be the right thing to
do.
Marissa Powell, Miss Utah, being asked about the income disparity between
men and women at the Miss USA pageant:
"I think we can relate this
back to education and how we are continuing to try to strive to .... figure out
how to create jobs right now. That is the biggest problem and I think
especially the men are, um, seen as the leaders of this so we need to try to figure
out how to create education better so that we can solve this
problem."
I think beauty pageant contestants should
just stick to saying they want Whirled Peas.
Michael Burgess, Republican Congressman from Texas, on his support of a
federal abortion ban because, um, he saw a fetus masturbate:
“There
is no question in my mind that a baby at 20-weeks after conception can feel
pain. The fact of the matter is, I argue with the chairman because I thought
the date was far too late. We should be setting this at 15-weeks, 16-weeks,”
said the former OB/GYN during the House Rules Committee debate on the
“Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. Watch a sonogram of a 15-week
baby, and they have movements that are purposeful,” he continued. “They stroke
their face. If they’re a male baby, they may have their hand between their
legs. If they feel pleasure, why is it so hard to believe that they could feel
pain?”
Fetuses masturbating?
Oh. Texas.
That’s
all.
Frank Bruni, on the Vatican’s ‘gay lobby’:
"I have many questions for and about the 'gay lobby' in
the Vatican, but I’ll start with this: How can you be so spectacularly
ineffective? You wouldn’t last a minute on K Street; the Karl Roves of the
capital would have you for lunch. Despite your presence in, and presumed
influence on, the upper reaches of the Roman Catholic hierarchy, church
teaching still holds that homosexuality is disordered, and many church leaders
still send the preposterously mixed message that while gay and lesbian people
shouldn’t be admonished for, or ashamed about, their same-sex attractions, they
should nonetheless elect cold showers over warm embraces. Look but don’t touch.
Dream but don’t diddle."
I
imagine the Gay Lobby has been in the Vatican since the Vatican was first built,
and yet they’ve accomplished nothing regarding the teachings of the Bible and homosexuality.
Maybe
those Gay Lobbyists in the Vatican are more interested in their own private times
and not so much the rest of the LGBT world.
Jeb
Bush, former
Florida Governor, on how the GOP should "sound" inclusive but stick
to their conservative beliefs:
"I
think we could focus on all our disparate parts, all of the points of disagreement
that conservatives have and never win again. My general thought is that the
focus ought to be on how you get fifty plus one, not how you win amongst
forty-five. And that’s kind of where we are where everybody has a view that’s
slightly different than one another and certainly social conservatives are a
huge part of a winning coalition, which means that we have to
change our language to be inclusive but not abandon principle. That’s
not as hard, I think, as people make it out to be."
Wait,
let me get this queer: Jeb wants the GOP to say
they’ve changed but not really change. Be inclusive, while remaining divisive?
Yeah,
that hasn’t worked so far, has it?
Serena
Williams, in
what appears to be an old interview, on the Steubenville rape case:
“Do you think it was fair, what they got? They did
something stupid, but I don’t know. I’m not blaming the girl, but if you’re a
16-year-old and you’re drunk like that, your parents should teach you: don’t
take drinks from other people. She’s 16, why was she that drunk where she
doesn’t remember? It could have been much worse. She’s lucky. Obviously I don’t
know, maybe she wasn’t a virgin, but she shouldn’t have put herself in that
position, unless they slipped her something, then that’s different.”
Wow.
This is one of those cases where an athlete, while admirable for her skills on
the court, should learn to zip it.
A drunken
girl does not ask to be raped.
A girl
dressed provocatively does not ask to be raped.
A girl
who is not a virgin—and how in the hell do you suggest that she wasn’t—does not
ask to be raped.
A girl
who goes to a party is not asking to be raped.
By Serena’s
warped logic, girls should wear potato sacks, stay home, remain virgins their
entire lives and never touch alcohol, lest they encourage a group of
over-indulged athletes to rape them.
Stick
to tennis, hon.
PS Serena is back-tracking now:
"I am currently reaching out to the girl's family to let her know that i am deeply sorry for what was written in the Rolling Stone article. What was written -- what I supposedly said -- is insensitive and hurtful, and I by no means would say or insinuate that she was at all to blame."
Doesn't sound like an apology, it sounds like she's blaming Rolling Stone for what she supposedly said.
Just say, 'I'm sorry I said something so stupid.' Serena.
