The Dallas Voice, Towleroad and Think Progress just dug up anti-gay campaign fliers that smear different political opponent for loving homogays. The one issued by Houston Independent School District Trustee Manuel Rodriquez Jr. pointed out his opponent Ramiro Fonseca’s LGBT political connections and the fact that he’s a 52-year-old unmarried man with a male partner. Dare we trust such a man with the children?!!
A second flier (above) targets pro-LGBT Democratic Virginia state Senator Ralph Northam by reminding you that “homosexual/gays molest children into the gay life style” and “spread most of the Aids in America.”
Then yet another anti-gay flier in Virginia calls Republican senatorial candidate Patrick Forrest an “openly homosexual” man endorsed by the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund. We like how those things are supposed to be shocking. Maybe in 1951.
Of course, the real outrage here is the horrible design and typesetting in both fliers. You can tell they totally weren’t designed by homosexuals.
How about we take this to the next level?
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christopher di spirito
Taliban Texas is a vile place run by crooked Repugs. I detest the Lone Star state. In fact, I refuse to watch ‘Top Chef’ this season because they’ve landed in Texas. Andy Cohen must be getting fucked by someone in Dallas.
erin
If Texas wants to secede from the US then PLEASE PLEASE let them we don’t need them
stoopid louie
As someone who relocated to southern Virginia and has seen the natives in all of their glory, I can attest that anti-gay rhetoric in this region is a magnet for religious voters, of which there are many. With few exceptions, people are cool to my partner and me, but there’s more than a little ignorance going on (you don’t jump into the gene pool around here because it’s a little too shallow, if you catch my drift).
Politically Incorrect Thug
@christopher di spirito: You lefties have such compassion. And class. Generalizing all Texans as Taliban and childishly boycotting a TV series—a TV series!—because it takes place in TX is about as classy and compassionate (and mature) as the anarchists who’re currently trying to burn Oakland to the ground. So very classy.
Little Kiwi
PIT, you voted for McCain/Palin. Two people who supported Prop 8 and the similarly-styled bans on Marriage Equality. Both of whom oppose LGBT couples adopting. Both of whom oppose letting LGBT people serve openly in the military.
So since when you do care about compassion? Oh, i get it. You need to tell yourself that Leftists are intolerant so that you can trick yourself into believing that your family actually accepts you. They don’t, and we can all tell.
Little Kiwi
so, PIT, since you’re a GOP supporter what do you make of the lies your chosen allies are spreading about…well…you?
shle896
There’s not a way to fight this type of ignorance. These fucktards only believe what they want to believe and nothing and nobody will ever change their simple minds. They’re not only ignorant, they’re scared. How pathetic and sad.
shle896
@Politically Incorrect Thug:
You have a point.. none of “us” should generalize about an entire state, as there are right-wing whack jobs in all 50 states, but c’mon, YOUR side is responsible for these kinds of disgusting, bigoted and ignorant flyers, chain emails, political signs and legislation.
And you think YOUR side is classy? What a TOTAL joke, dude. As you’re on this site, I’m assuming you’re a gay man or woman. If that’s the case, surely you realize that the Republicans HATE your guts and want nothing but the worst for you. How ridiculous! It’s like being a Jewish Nazi or a black skinhead. It makes absolutely no sense. Seriously, are you that full of self-loathing?
Hyhybt
@shle896: Of course there’s a way to fight ignorance. Consistently counter lies with truth. It won’t help with those spreading filth, but it helps stop it taking root in those who hear.
shle896
@Hyhybt: Agreed. I guess what I was trying to say is that facts and truth won’t ever change THEIR minds. You’re right, though, we do need to vehemently and relentlessly debunk every last lie or ignorant statement.
Little Kiwi
have y’all ever tried having a calm rational fact-based dialogue with those people? this is what happens: they state their “opinion” which is baseless and devoid of factual backup. you counter it with facts, empirical evidence, backed-up truths and logic.
they say “that’s your opinion”
you point out that it’s not an “opinion” it’s empiricially backed-up fact. they say “yeah, well, that’s your opinion. let’s agree to disagree”
this is because they’re fucking idiots who are too proud to realize that their opinions are in fact flat-out INCORRECT. everyone is entitled to their own opinions, everyone is not entitled to their own facts. this is lost on the weak low-thinkers of the world who are so damned proud of their “right to their opinion” that they’ll make themselves look like foolish neanderthals by holding hard to “opinions” than can be factually disproved.
they have opinions that can only be maintained by ignoring facts, logic, reason and evidence. they do this because they have nothing in their lives but fear.
kylew
@Little Kiwi: Yes, an excellent characterisation Kiwi. Of course, it’s no coincidence that this level of ignorance comes in the religious strongholds of the country. Anyone who can convince themselves that contrary to all reason, that there is a god, will have no problem ignoring “reasoning” away scientific eviidence.
Little Kiwi
they scream “it’s a Christian Nation!” but only when they need to hate gays and Muslims. it’s never a “christian nation” when it comes to universal healthcare or gun control. Jesus would have hated guns, the idea of healthcare systems run for profit, and a system where some people have billions of dollars while others making the “minimum wage” cannot live off of it alone.
and let’s be honest – you show me an anti-gay “Christian” and I’ll show you an anti-Semite.
these folks aren’t angry at the billions of heterosexuals who have sex before marriage, even though “the bible is against it”
they have excuses for everything and reasons for nothing.
kylew
I actually think that this kind of outright lying should be illegal in political campaigning, as should attacking opponents on the basis of race or sexuality. Surely this must be considered a hate document? Who is it put out by?
When politician can be held accountable for the claims of their campaigns, maybe we can get just a tiny bit more integrity into the process.
I certainly don’t want to hold Texans responsible for the scum who operate out of the state, but even in country whose politicians I have long held in near total contempt, this is a new low. What I don’t understand is why the USA continues to hold so much global influence with behaviour like this?
christopher di spirito
@Politically Incorrect Thug: You’re an idiot, PIT. A total and complete idiot.
Jim Hlavac
And here we go again — Texas has America’s 4th Largest city: Houston. Houston is the largest city in Texas — it has a gay mayor. It would there fore seem impossible for “all” Texas or Texans to be against gays. And somehow, weirdly, but somehow, I don’t think any gay Texan is against him or herself. Texas being #2 in population, I dare say, it would be #2 in number of gays too.
Then, this nonsense that we all must be liberal Democrats with an agenda for economic socialism merely because we’re gay. In this article itself, there’s the Gay Republican being smeared — but a Hetero Democrat for heaven’s sake. Not to mention that Obama, Biden and Hilary Clinton all repeatedly said they were against gay marriage when they ran — was I too vote for them, then, because they were “for” me in some mythological world I can’t get into?
Not to mention the rather vast numbers of hetero African-American and Latino Democratic voters who are very against gays. Ruben Diaz of NY State — we’re “worthy of death.” Please, quit with the Democrats are “for” us, and Republicans are “against” us – -and focus on the fact that both are still “evolving.”
Look, you go fix your party, if you’re a Democrat — and we on the Right shall do what we can to fix ours.
Jason
@Politically Incorrect Thug: Really…so the assholes you support don’t follow a show like Dancing With the Stars because Chaz is on there and we are bad because we don’t support a tv show filmed in your asshole state? GTFOI Burning Oakland….do you have a channel besides the Faux news in Texass?…..Oakland isn’t burning it is being turn alive and about to gain even more support…the right wing is fighting a loosing battle….have you actually looked at your candidates! ROFLMAO!!!!
Politically Incorrect Thug
@Jason: Wow, you are soooo misguided. If Oakland isn’t burning, what are those hot orange things flickering from buildings? Oh, I guess I mistook streamers for fire. Dopey me.
Politically Incorrect Thug
@Jason: ps – Never watched Dancing with the Stars. (and not that I’m questioning your intellect, but the word is “losing’, not “loosing.”)
hf2hvit
@Politically Incorrect Thug: YOU’RE A DORK. GO PAY SOMEONE TO LICK YOU.
chuck
I live in Minnesota. The out-state area is moving more and more to the RePug-nant side of politics. M. Bachmann is ‘my’ congresswoman. The GOP is trying to get an anti-marriage amendment passed in 2012. I have no problem with people ‘white’-washing my state with the same brush as many are with Texas. The only saving grace is the 2010 census…our metro cities have gained so much population that the out-state RePugs are going to have to fight over the rural scraps.
Ben
Ralph is my State Senator and I saw him at the polls this a.m. As of 9:45 p.m. EST most of the results are in and he’s up by 17% on the GOP candidate