Yep. Lots of minorities voted for Prop 8 in California.
It’s changed somewhat since then. How much, I don’t know.
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Evangelicals make up their own Biblical interpretations to fit their political agenda. It used to be called heresy.
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Yep. There’s a certain element of oppression that forces the person suffering it to view the elevation or escape of others suffering it as perhaps effecting their chances of elevation or escape…as if the world is narrowed to zero sum.
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Crabs in a bucket.
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I’ve heard that one. Two Corinthians walk into a bar…
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Apparently the real victim is not the LGBTQ community, it is the Florida Republican Party given that the leadership says Hill “owes his colleagues an apology and he owes the Republican caucus a better example of political courage.”
One man’s religious terrorism is another man’s religious freedom. I doubt that Justice Alito and the four other Justices who joined him in Burwell v Hobby Lobby would see a problem here. Hill was simply expressing his “sincerely held religious beliefs” and it is not the Court’s place to question those beliefs.
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Non-Joe the non-plumber comes to mind. He’d never been a person who made $250K a year or anywhere near it, but he identified with people who did as an aspiration and challenged Obama on the taxation of same. It’s not exactly analogous but he certainly had that inability to see and empathize with people in his own situation.
Anyway, I’m struck that all this guy had to do was say he thought the question was outrageous and his policy is to just calmly move on and not get hijacked into an argument premised on that outrageousness. Personally I’d have accepted that. But to get all offended for your own victimized self is pretty cheesy.
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Mr. Hill, exactly at what moment did you, allegedly, decide to be, allegedly, heterosexual?
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What I see is desire to use a religious proclamation to make a law. The first and foremost response to the request would be a rebuke of the suggestion to impose a Christian form of Sharia on Americans.
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Or a mortar round of rainbow glitter.
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Is that guy going to also suggesting that we punish sexual immorality and carousing, drunkenness, gluttony…
Bad news for He Who Shall Not Be Named.
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There was a book written during GWB (I think) but that had a resurgence of popularity during the ACA process in Obama’s first term because a number of Congress people and US Senators were exposed as being members or at least beneficiaries of grossly underpriced Washington D.C. housing. It is called C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to Democracy. Written by Jeff Sharlett. Disgraced GOP Nevada Senator John Ensign was resident there when he paid $100,000 in hush money to the husband of the aide he was having an affair with. The relevancy to this particular article is that this Fundamentalist Group, which began the yearly National Prayer Breakfast in Washington DC, has expanded its political ratfuckery to Africa. The group obtained the actual passage of a death penalty for homosexuals statute in Uganda. It was changed to life imprisonment. But still. So if anyone thinks this is just some off the wall, over the top machismo inspired joke, they would be mistaken.
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That’s been their big thing as fundamentalist support has waned in the US; they’ve turned to Africa and Russia (among other places) to evangelize their extremist beliefs. They’ve thrown around the vast sums of money they accumulated from the willing rubes in the US and used it to win over influential members of the government in those countries in order to pass those bills that have been increasingly abandoned or overturned here.
The target countries usually have underdeveloped concepts of human rights, so it’s easier to lead the population by the nose to the execrable endgoal that they are unable to achieve in the US and other Western nations.
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Ha…true…altho…in that situation, don’t you want to be the crab on the bottom?
I also see this current example of why it was so refreshing and surprising back in 2008 when the McCain shut that woman down about Obama being a Muslim. I do believe that Rep. Hill probably has a sincerely held religious belief that we must kill all the gays and that is why he laughed, instead of taking a page out McCain’s playbook and explain to the man that we don’t kill people because they are different. What he believes or doesn’t believe shouldn’t matter if you are a member of the law and order political party.
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Insert black people here and see what he has to say. Fucking dumbasses come in all colors, shapes, and sizes.
“I am horrified by what I just heard, hate of any kind cannot be tolerated,” Florida Republican party chair Joe Gruters tweeted late last week. “Mike Hill should immediately apologize.”
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An apology is not enough. This guy should be thrown (bodily) out of the legislature. On his keester. Without his belongings. Lock the door behind him.
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Irony was never part of the GOP mind set. Nor for that matter the federal government either.
Yes, and in the 1950s there were a group of fundamentalists who called for the enactment of laws based on the book of Leviticus.
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Would Mr Hill laugh at this behavior?
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