Yesterday, in a fascinating display of mental gymnastics, South Carolina lunkhead Trey Gowdy marveled that Attorney General Eric Holder has decided that LGBT couples are somehow different from polygamists, statutory rapists, and kissin’ cousins.
Holder patiently explained how the Court of Appeals system works, and why the Department of Justice agreed that LGBT couples are a politically disadvantaged class in need of heightened judicial protection.
But Gowdy, seemingly oblivious to the embarrassing homophobic undertones of his ramblings, continued to scratch his head in bafflement, accusing Holder of turning against DOMA for political reasons.
And this is the problem that we face when we talk to so many Republicans: a crazy, backward, primitive belief that nobody could possibly discern any difference between gay couples, which research has shown produce happy healthy stable unions, and inbreeding, which research has shown produce people like Trey Gowdy.
How about we take this to the next level?
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greybat
After a period of trying not to make interpretations of Character based on appearances, I find myself beginning to make them again.
I find myself imagining which face I’d be more willing to sit over a cup of coffee with…
The Attorney General’s, with it’s open, honest expression, or Senator Gowdy’s with it’s tight, disapproving haughtiness.
Yes, this is a naive impulse. But it’s a naivety born of experience.
Cam
We’ve come through the 90’s when it seemed fashionable to try to pretend that everybody was equal and that all viewpoints and cultures needed to be respoected.
I’m sorry, but just because some backwater preacher holding a snake has said that gays are bad, that is no reason why we have to sit here and listen to some elected official try to spout off his ignorance. Time to start mocking idiots again.
Lonnie
Bill Clinton, a Democrats, signed the Defense of Marriage Act into law. Barack Obama, a warmonger Democrat, has done nothing to repeal it. The Republicans and Democrats are BOTH anti-queer. Except queers apparently love it when we get bashed by Democrats.
craig
@Lonnie: It was the Republicans who wanted DOMA and shoved it on Bill Clinton, though. That’s the difference. The Republicans actively want to keep us from our rights and connive and bully to make that happen. The Democrats are too concilliatory and get pushed around by bigoted Republican thugs and the FOX News lie machine, so we have to make Democrats understand they need to cater to their base or else risk losing it.
TMikel
Note: Gowdy appears to be a mouth breather- and nothing good ever comes from that! He also appears to have just woken up from a nap and to be less intelligent than your average bear – does he remind anyone else of Yogi’s sidekick Boo Boo?
Banking On Heaven . Com
I was raised in polygamy and can’t stand narrow-minded politicians who use polygamy to go after gays. Polygamy is a heinous lifestyle where women and children are systematically indoctrinated and abused from birth. Gay couples are Americans, too, and only want equal treatment under the law. Polygamists want “special treatment”, the right to marry multiple wives, which is absurd in a world where male to female birthrates are 50-50 (except China, of course).
Trey Gowdy is a bronze-age ignoramus of the worst kind.
Gays are AWESOME.
Cam
@Lonnie:
Lonnie, I’m not going to defend Clinton and Nunn at all, and I had been VERY critical of Obama’s running from gay rights issues for a while.
HOWEVER, if we are going to compare both parties equally then lets.
Pelosi brought up the DADT repeal twice, and the 2nd time pressured the White House to use it’s muscle to call in the Senate votes. How many Dems voted for repeal and how many republicans?
The Obama White House has stopped defending DOMA in court, the republican response is to try to pull out funds to hire a firm privately to defend this anti-gay law.
So have the DEMS been our perfect allies? No, but
1. They are suceptable to our political pressure
2. They have been the party that has tried to push through all of the bills benefitting us in the last 5 years.
3. The GOP has actively worked against us.