Tag: GOP Homophobia
Well, at Least We Know Jeb’s Take on Gay Marriage in 1994
Should sodomy be elevated to the same constitutional status as race and religion? My answer is No.
— Jeb Bush, quoted by BuzzFeed, arguing against gay marriage in a 1994 Miami Herald op-ed piece.
Bachmann’s Back on Her Dopebox
They want to abolish age of consent laws, which means children would, we would do away with statutory rape laws so that adults will be able to freely prey on little children sexually. That’s the deviance that we’re seeing embraced in our culture today.
— Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), quoted by the Huffington Post, on what the gay community really wants.
Rick Perry Just Ain’t Butch Without His Boots
Tell Rick that boots can be purchased with normal heels. I lament the fact that our governor could now pass for a West Coast metrosexual and has embarrassed us all with his sartorial change of direction.
— Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson (R), telling the Austin American Statesman that Gov. Rick Perry’s (R) decision, based on back pain, to stop wearing cowboy boots was just a “feeble excuse.”
The Urinal Test
Why women gather in the powder room remains a mystery
To a real man’s man like Big Mike Huckabee.
Guys can go fishin’
And guys can go huntin’,
But a REAL man walks alone when he gets up to pee.
Huckabee: ‘I’m a Man’s Man’
Guys like to go fishing with other men. They like to go hunting with other men. Women like to go to the restroom with other women. I don’t get that. I can tell you this much: if I ever say, ‘I have to go to the restroom’ and some guy says, ‘I’ll go with you,’ he ain’t goin’ with me. That much I know.
— Mike Huckabee, quoted by TPM at a speech in Iowa.
GOP Chairman Reince Priebus Does Not Care for the Word ‘Tolerance’
I don’t know if I’ve used the word ‘tolerance,’ I don’t really care for that word myself. I don’t have a problem with it, I just think it has another meaning politically that can go the other direction.
– GOP Chairman Reince Priebus of Wisconsin, speaking to the hate-promoting Christian Broadcasting Network.
Haters Got to Keep on Hating: Prop 8 Defenders Try to Kill Marriage Equality in California One More Time
Despite having been slapped down by the Republican-controlled U.S. Supreme Court, the hate groups and Republican activists behind Proposition 8, the state constitutional amendment that outlawed same-sex in California, have not given up. They announced last week that they will waste more of the taxpayers’ money with an appeal to the California Supreme Court to once again halt gay weddings in the state:
Simpson Perceives ‘Homophobic Strain’ in GOP
What is this homophobic strain in our party?
— Former Sen. Alan Simpson (R-WY), in an interview with the Los Angeles Times, saying the GOP needed to “get over its hangup on gay rights.”
Pro-Equality Protesters in Santa Monica Roust the Westboro Haters: ‘Go Back to Kansas’
When members of the Westboro Baptist Church showed up at Santa Monica High School today to conduct an anti-gay protest, they were in for a huge surprise.
That surprise was a huge crowd that was on hand to counter-protest the group known to protest at military funerals carrying signs that say such things as ‘God Hates Fags.’
…The church members stayed only a brief time as they found themselves faced with scores of students who were well-prepared for their arrival.
Students and others were holding rainbow flags large and small and waving signs with such messages as ‘God Cares for All Creation,’ ‘Ain’t Nobody Got Time for Hate’ and ‘God Hates People Who Say They Know Who God Hates.’
The video … shows the spirited crowd of students and a dispirited small group from Westboro walking away from the scene as someone in the crowd yells: ‘Go back to Kansas!’