The electoral gay-baiting has spread to Missouri!
According to that state's Republican party, "extreme liberals" are all backing potential state representative Kristy Manning because, as a Democrat, the politico will institute free-wheeling abortions, gay marriage and all sorts of other sick shit.
The flier's but one in a series of anti-gay mailers that have gone out in recent weeks. Ohio's Republican party sent out two, while North Carolina's GOP recently attacked Senatorial hopeful Kay Hagan, whom they describe as an agent of the gay agenda.
Funny – both the Democrats and Republican parties claim they'll bring real change to America, yet these state's Republican parties insist on inflaming the tired culture wars.
[via Show Me Progress]
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Anti-gay marriage is anti-gay marriage, not anti-gay. And Queerty is anti-Republican.
I mean, who decided that you have to be for gay marriage to be gay, or that if you are against gay marriage you are anti-gay?
^ Not sure what to say about that…
Well John, "anti-gay marriage" may not be anti-gay outright, but once you look at who it effects (second half of the hyphenated word), it's clear it is a restriction solely on same-sex couples.
One may or may not say it is anti-gay, but we can agree that these laws do several unAmerican things. They prevent two consenting adults from making their own decisions about their lives, such as; the structure of their family and mutual custody of their children; their economic future; and most important to any Republican, legal parody for a personal religious and spiritual union of two souls in love (a marriage).
Since anti-marriage laws, by both principle and effect, are also anti-family, anti-free market, and anti-freedom of religion, then the true national-security risk isn't that these laws disinvest on our social and economic well-being. The dangerous trap we fall into is allowing republicans to mistake themselves into believing that they are actually protecting family, economy, and religion.
As for your second contention, Queerty may clearly be acting in favor of family, economy, and religion when they point out that the GOP smear campaign presented may in fact be both hypocritical and unethical, but that's no reason to stop believing that we aren't at war with Eurasia, and have always been at war with Eurasia…