Pat Fagan, the director of The Family Research Council‘s Marriage and Religious Research Institute, feels that opponents of marriage equality should refer to gay men’s marriage as “garriage,” and lesbian’s marriage as “larriage.” Right Wing Watch reports he proposed this in answer to Ryan T. Anderson, a marriage equality opponent who presented his new book Truth Overruled at FRC‘s office, saying:
A proposal, something along this line, that we in the pro-family movement start using related terms, but keep “marriage” for what it always was. So we might call — and this is to be worked out — but something like, if you’re talking about gay marriage you call it “garriage.” If it’s lesbian, you call it “larriage.” If you want a generic homosexual marriage, it’s “harriage.” But getting these words into use I think is key. And that will take time, but whomever holds the language ultimately holds the whole game.
Watch his ridiculous speech below.
H/t: LGBTQNation
AtticusBennett
behold, gay republicans! these are the morons your party champions! no wonder you’re such a bunch of broken wimps.
F. Jay Ver
Seems like a reasonable compromised. I will call it Garriage if they shut up and mind their own business. Lol
Bill Mountrey
“Family Research Council” where the mentally deficient go to pretend they aren’t all complete assholes. Yet fail at that, also, too, you betcha!
metta
Stuck in a bigoted past. A dying breed. May the future hold less ‘STUPID’.
Captain Obvious
I want him to be referred as “Too old to function.” and put out to pasture.
Hugh Dunn
It’s legally defined as marriage, not just religiously defined that way. So, in order for it to be equal, it NEEDS to be called the same thing. As we have learned time and time again in America, separate but equal DOES NOT EXIST.
Kristopher Saim
How about we call Pat Fagan a moron and call it a day?!?!
Dwight G Grogan
Can we rename the Republican party Dumb Asses??
Brian JC Kneeland
the guy is a total idiot – marriage is marriage – its all legal – get over it!
Kevin Cato
Absurd! People would confuse it with, “garage.”
Dave Basora
Well let’s see…would he allow me to call him a fucking whack job on a regular and very public basis?
NateOcean
Seriously, are they all fucking crazy?
Mercurical Memo
This is why for the life of me, I can`t understand LGBT people who spout the whole `my sexuality is more than who I am…` or however the hell that facsimile adage goes. It mainly comes from conservative LGBT people. The republican party, the conservative party will NEVER like us. It doesn`t matter how many affluent gay men may donate to the GOP or other conservative causes, to the conservative we will always be fudge-packers who destroy traditional values. LGBT people whether they care or admit it or not disrupt gender norms, disrupt sex roles, the conservative will always ponder, no matter how straight acting one is, who plays at being the woman.
Funny enough republicans always say that those who clamour Donald Trump or whoever the extremist of the month does not represent the moderates of the republican party. When in truth is, actually they do. It is the core demographic. Own it. Just like self-hating LGBT should own that their purpose is nothing more than house-slave and convenient token when it suits a purpose.
Otherwise, dopes.
Matthew Farris
Why does he care so much?
Mark David
Hahaha. Can we refer to him as gidiot?
Mike Power
A garriage is where you park your car, surely?
Peter McKinney
Why bother paying him any attention. He looks like he’ll die before thanksgiving.
Kirk Montrealer
Tell this old geezer to wash his balls.
Steve Russell
When my car and I can get married we can call it garriage.
Steve Russell
Marriage – a combination or mixture of two or more elements.
“a marriage of jazz, pop, blues, and gospel”
synonyms: union, alliance, fusion, mixture, mix, blend, amalgamation, combination, merger
“a marriage of jazz, pop, and gospel”
Mike Burke
As long as we can call him Old Dumb Fucker legally
Sandy McLendon
Can we have his party’s stupidity referred to as Rumassery?
Mark Coassolo
First of all. Gay people ARE very much Pro-Family. They are Pro-Straight Only Marriage. There is now only Marriage that is for all solid homosexual American couples and why not allow heterosexual American couples too.
Stache99
How about we call family or bigoted shit for brains council or something. Stop high jacking family and anything to do with actual thinking.
Stache99
…them anti-family that is.
John Malin
What a moronic dumbass! Send the looney back to his assylum!
Rodney Davis
Man these wackos just can’t accept equality and then to take the time because it bothers them so badly to create language that would segregate the issue of equal marriage
throwslikeagirl
Craptastic.
Eddie Poole-Boccio
His name is Fagan…maybe we should just call him Faggage?
Dino Diamantakos
Michael Woodruff
Apparently this guy has never heard of the supreme court’s rejection of separate but equal doctrines used to discriminate. The problem with separate but equal is that it is never equal by definition
GG
Kim Davis’ fifth husband.
BlueDude
This old douche is the poster-moron for “old White Republican dinosaur”, which, thankfully, will be extinct one day!
Michael Jarboe
If we can refer to his face as donkeyassface.
Alan Burnside
Giancarlo85
And this is why I don’t get how gay republicans even exist. Funny none of our usual trolls are posting here. How can some gay people vote and support a party that wants them wiped off the earth?
This is how republicans and conservatives view us. As less than human. I guess there were Jews who voted for Hitler. Same thing really.
DonW
“…whomever holds the language ultimately holds the whole game.”
Apparently you don’t “hold the language,” you ill-educated hick, because as a subject it’s “whoever,” not “whomever.”
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
My retort is that this lunatic and thousands of others seem to think a lot about Gays, marriage, sex etc……………………
Which can only lead a sane logical person to see that he is most definatley without a doubt interested in Gay sex……………. (;-p)
Avery Alvarez
This is like some ridiculous comedy skit.
“I propose we call it “garriage”‘
“I’m sorry, did you say “garage””?
“Who’s on first”
This whole thing links well to the article Queerty did on the connection between psychosis and homophobia.
Dakotahgeo
Maybe we can just keep the words to the FRC/these assholes as “Fucking Idiots,” or FI for short!
Streamciter
Let’s start calling him Fat Pagan instead.
Giancarlo85
Where is that alistair wiseass? Oh wait… nowhere to be found! That right wing idiot only posts in convenient articles.