Day: August 5, 2010

Verbatim

Trish

While former half-term governor Palin is certainly an expert in not being vetted, we put our trust in the judgment of the American people who rejected not only the broken policies she and Republicans continue to call for, but also this very kind of childish politics she continues to engage in.

DNC Press Secretary Hari Sevugan, commenting on Sarah Palin’s statement that Pres. Obama is not up to the task of being president, despite 18 months of proof to the contrary. Even as Pres. Obama has pulled the country back from the brink of Republican-induced economic collapse, succeeded where the last eight presidents failed at starting genuine health care reform, reversed Bush policies on torture, murder, mutilation, and humiliation of individuals in the custody of officers or agents of the federal government, and signed a strategic arms treaty with Russia that reduces both of our nuclear arsenals by one-third (without even being able to see the Russian shore), Palin said, “Some of this though is a result of he not having much experience and then a complicit media and maybe some voters who chose to not to allow him to be vetted very closely.”

Adultery Is the Real Threat to Marriage, So Where Is the Clamor to Deny Civil Rights to Philanderers?

Jon Ponder

Gingrich with third wife Calista, the former staffer he was sleeping with during the Clinton impeachment
Gingrich with third wife Calista, the former staffer he was sleeping with during the Clinton impeachment
Reacting to the overturning of Proposition 8 by a federal judge in California yesterday, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich — a serial adulterer who led the impeachment of Pres. Clinton over a sex lie about an extramarital affair with a staffer while he himself was engaged in an affair with a staffer — said this:

Judge Walker’s ruling overturning Prop 8 is an outrageous disrespect for our Constitution and for the majority of people of the United States who believe marriage is the union of husband and wife. In every state of the union from California to Maine to Georgia, where the people have had a chance to vote they’ve affirmed that marriage is the union of one man and one woman. Congress now has the responsibility to act immediately to reaffirm marriage as a union of one man and one woman as our national policy. Today’s notorious decision also underscores the importance of the Senate vote tomorrow on the nomination of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court because judges who oppose the American people are a growing threat to our society.

They won’t admit it outright, but what Republican politicians like Gingrich and anti-gay activist groups like the National Organization for Marriage, Family Research Council, American Family Association and the rest are really advocating is restricting the right of gays to marry based solely on their status as sinners.

But no matter how you slice it — whether from a societal, moral, or religious point of view — it is adultery, not gay marriage, that is real threat to marriage and society.

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