Social conservatives are sweating balls right about now.
As you know, anti-gay activists are pushing California’s Proposition 8, which would revere the state Supreme Court’s legalization of gay marriage. While it’s too early to say what will go down this November, American Family Association founder and stalwart wing nut Don Wildmon doesn’t sound too optimistic:
If we lose California, if they defeat the marriage amendment, I’m afraid that the culture war is over and Christians have lost,” the Evangelical leader told columnist Bill Berkowitz.
“I’ve never said that publicly until now,” Wildmon added, “but that’s just the reality of the fact.”
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“California is a big dam, holding back the flood” in the “culture wars,” Wildmon asserted, “and if you take down the dam in California, it’s going to flood 49 other states.”
What a wonderful world it would be…
Thom
So, I have to wait until Novemeber to get of rid of these nutbags. AND The COUNTDOWN BEGINS!!!
Rsquared
The thought of that right wing wacko’s ideas being flooded by the California ruling – which he calls a culture war – is comforting.
Konrad
“If we lose California, if they defeat the marriage amendment, I’m afraid that the culture war is over and [our side has] lost,â€
Hey, when he’s right, he’s right.
Charley
Where do these fundie nut cases come up with their crazy metaphors ? “California is a dam”. Equal justice under the law flooding other states ?
Woof
We have to defeat that freaking Prop 8, we can’t fall asleep on this one.
Disgsuted American
well thats one flood I’d gladly drown in! A Flood of Equality!
abracadaver
Mr. Wildmon shouldn’t be so upset. After all, his “side” lost the battle of civil rights, racial equality, women’s rights, voting rights, school prayer, etc etc ad infinitum. They should be used to it by now. You’d think they’d get a clue, after having their dearest beliefs rejected time and again.
emb
It’s nice of him to offer capitulation so easily. Let’s not miss this opportunity (as if losing on Prop 8 would really ever shut these people up).
mark
You bet your a$$ CA HAS flooded the other 49 States, so jump in your dinghy Donnie, and paddle off to Don’t-Give-A-Sh*t-Land!
They want to preach they can stop same sex marrige…that boat sailed. Even if they clamped down CA, the current marriages won’t be made illegal, they will be grandfathered into any future legislation. The out state marriages will eventually test their State Courts.
CHURCHILL-Y
Don’t be fooled by this bigots perceived pessimistic words he might actually end up being helped by the voters of his conservative party opposition come November.
Jaroslaw
To echo Abradacaver – yes, they “lost” racial issues, prayer in school and other issues. What did they lose? They can still pray in school if they want to, their women can still be barefoot and pregnant etc. if that is what they want.
It is not as if “losing” means one side gets something and the other forfeits.
This should be clear as well by now….. 🙂
The Milkman
Why do right-wing religious nutbags always look like that?
mark
milkman
if you think Donnie can’t carry off the look, you should see their wives…YIKES
Bay Buchanan, Phyliss Schafely, Liddy Dole, Barbara Bush SENIOR…etc.
Lucas
This is basically a scare tactic, the likes of GWB’s if we don’t go to war with IRAQ, they will use the weapons of mass destruction against us.
Fear mongering is an effective tool in the right wing’s arsenal to gather supports for its causes.
greybat
No.s 12 + 13- since they are not allowed to look natural, sexy, or godlike, they opt for looking “nice”. When they get to heaven, they’re supposed to get a “glorified” body, although judging from the films I’ve seen, this is covered up with a white caftan, and the women get bigger hair and another row of false eyelashes.
J & J
Here’s a better idea: Let’s snatch David Hauslaib out of his apartment (Brooklyn, Queens, Carroll Gardens..?) and squeeze a pink triangle gay pride T-shirt on him, then shove him into the middle of the reggae Straight Pride march on Aug. 31. Let him see how the Duke lacrosse boys felt when they were attacked by a barbaric mob. THAT would be karmic justice.
Willie Hewes
Mr Wildmon, you better start swimming or you’ll sink like a stone.
michael
Don’t all those screwballs believe that the world is going to hell in a handbag anyway? You know all that tribulation, anti-Christ, armageddon bullshit? So why do they fight what they believe is inevitable? They have all been waiting for the J-mans return for centuries so they should see all this as something to help bring move that along.
doire415
The uglier a guy is, the more likely it is he will be afraid of gay men. Kinda counter-intuitive, seems to me.
greybat
Doire! You may have hit upon a clue to the neo-con beauty cult!
Perhaps they’re so afraid some cute,Godless, secular-humanist is going to hit on them, they purposefully MAKE themselves look like refugees from a Fellini film!