Mitt Romney’s anti-gay campaign charged into Florida yesterday.
Like so many Republicans before him, the presidential hopeful played on people’s fears to get out the vote.
America’s families and their future are under attack, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said Monday. The threats: gay marriage, Internet pornography and out-of-wedlock births.
“The foundation of society, which is the family, is under stress,” Romney told an audience at Nova Southeastern University.
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Most of the audience of about 300 applauded, although a significant share, perhaps half, was silent when Romney called for amending the U.S. Constitution to add a ban on same-sex marriage.Romney said he didn’t think gays and lesbians should be subject to discrimination. The Constitution, he said, provides “equal rights for people of all races and genders whether they’re gay or straight.”
But he said marriage deserves special status. “Marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman.”
So straight people should have special rights even though our Constitution provides “equal rights”? Aren’t “special rights” the same argument people like Romney use against gay-inclusive hate crime laws?
Maybe all that flip-flopping fried Romney’s brain.
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Matt
To paraphrase Obama’s challenge to the black clergy, I’d like for Mitt to show us one heterosexual marriage that was destroyed by exposure to homosexuals (other than one in which one spouse was already gay). What, precisely, is the Great Threat? These guys really need to be forced to thoroughly explaintheir preposterous statements with objective and defensible facts. Thing is, of course, they can’t: it’s just another scare tactic.
leomoore
It is a scare tactic that still works with many apparently. I wish there was a way to prevent the truly stupid from voting. When I hear these Republicans speaking, I always feel I need a bath to wash away the nastiness they spew. Of course with W, I feel like I should take a run through a decontamination unit. In all honesty, I feel only slightly cleaner listening to most of the Democratic candidates.
GranDiva
@ leomoore:
Actually, if I remember my political science 101 correctly, stupid people voting is the reason we don’t have direct democracy in the US in the first place. Well, stupid people and the fact that direct democracy is incredibly unwieldy as a model. Even Jefferson knew that the average citizen was too stupid to be trusted with large-scale governmental decisions, and as such, we have representative democracy instead.
Now, being the bitch I am, I wouldn’t stop at keeping stupid people from voting; I’d be committed to stopping reproduction among the stupid. I say remove them from the gene pool altogether.
Jack Jett
Mitt is a pretty man. Very pretty. I feel pretty certain that when he is alone and jacking off, he has a couple of fingers up his ass.
Just sayin……..
Jack Jett
Mike
Key point here is “a significant share, perhaps half, was silent when Romney called for amending the U.S. Constitution to add a ban on same-sex marriage.”
The old tactics aren’t working for republicans anymore. Republicans are nominating Rudy not because their base is split, but because America is less safe from terrorism, the EUR is supplanting the USD, and our government is bankrupt. Gay marriage is not what’s important to them, they finally see that. This year, most republicans couldn’t care less about a gay marriage amendment, and Romney will lose because he didn’t understand that.
Dom
Last time I heard, people choose what religion they follow. So why is it that this country gives “special rights” to religious extremists and their “chosen” lifestyle.
Oh, and I do not think that Mittens Romney shoves a few fingers up his ass as he (frequently) chokes his chicken. Instead, I am sure he sticks a rolled up copy of the Constitution up his pipeline, since he and the rest of the Republican Party seem to think that is all our Constitution is good for.
Bryan
If hetero marriage is so sacred, why is always about money and property once it falls apart?
Dawster
please remember that this is a man who believed that Jesus walked around in Montana preaching his “new” gospel…
spunkbox
This may give some insight into Romney the RoboDouche:
http://spunkbox.blogspot.com/2007/11/crazy-mormons.html