But things in this country are getting worse rather than better and next year thy have the opportunity to get far worse.That doesn't seem to be the case with gay rights at all.
"[Marcus] Bachmann may be dishonest about his practice, but he’s not the one running for president. Yet in describing herself as a small-business owner, Michele Bachmann clearly takes partial credit for Bachmann & Associates, and so its activities reflect on her. Besides, she’s made it clear that Marcus exerts authority over her, telling one church audience that she bowed to her husband’s instructions to study tax law because 'the Lord says be submissive. Wives, you are to be submissive to your husbands.' That means his character and beliefs are more germane to her candidacy than those of other political spouses. He’s the head of the woman who wants to be the head of country. He’s also a man with dubious qualifications running a clinic whose counseling techniques can ruin lives."*posted by ericb at 10:45 AM on July 11, 2011 [5 favorites]
"One more thing … the LGBT community has been calling out others quite a bit in the past two years for anti-LGBT bullying. The assumption that a child might be gay because of the way he or she acts or speaks or even walks, has caused some horrific retribution from classmates, teachers and even parents generation after generation.posted by ericb at 10:52 AM on July 11, 2011
'Dr.' Marcus Bachmann’s sexuality is known only to him and whoever else he wants to know. Some are concerned that our assumptions about him based on the way he acts, speaks and walks might be hypocritical and might be a bad message to send young people — that he should be called 'gay' simply because of his mannerisms.
It’s a tough discussion, because no, we absolutely should not make assumptions based on outdated stereotypes.
But at the same time, Bachmann himself has inadvertently alluded to the fact he might be gay on more than one occasion by using the 'we' pronoun instead of 'they,' and with hints like that, coupled with the fact that he is a public figure potentially responsible for the suicide of LGBT people, his actions and possible hypocrisy must be spoken about openly."*
“I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out then under another Democrat president Jimmy Carter. And I’m not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it’s an interesting coincidence.”posted by ericb at 11:02 AM on July 11, 2011 [14 favorites]
“I’m a foreign correspondent on enemy lines, and I try to let everyone back here in Minnesota know exactly the nefarious activities that are taking place in Washington.”
“But we also know that the very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in the United States.” .
“Pelosi is committed to her global warming fanatacism to the point where she has even said she is trying to save the planet. We all know someone did that 2,000 years ago.”
“This is a very serious matter, because it is our children who are the prize for this community, they are specifically targeting our children.”
“It’s part of Satan I think to say that this is “gay.” It’s anything but “gay.”
“If you’re involved in the gay and lesbian lifestyle, it’s bondage. It is personal bondage, personal despair and personal enslavement.”
“Don’t misunderstand. I am not here bashing people who are homosexuals, who are lesbians, who are bisexual, who are transgender. We need to have profound compassion for people who are dealing with the very real issue of sexual dysfunction in their life and sexual identity disorders.”*
"Untrammeled homosexuality can take over and destroy a social system. If you isolate sexuality as something solely for one's own personal amusement, and all you want is the most satisfying orgasm you can get - and that is what homosexuality seems to be - then homosexuality seems too powerful to resist. The evidence is that men do a better job on men and women on women, if all you are looking for is orgasm .... It's pure sexuality. It's almost like pure heroin. It's such a rush. . . . Marital sex tends toward the boring end. Generally, it doesn't deliver the kind of sheer sexual pleasure that homosexual sex does."posted by ericb at 11:19 AM on July 11, 2011 [6 favorites]
"Bachmann received support from 25 percent of likely Iowa caucus goers in the poll, while Romney is backed by 21 percent. The poll also shows signs of growth for former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty, who now stands in third place in statistical tie with Herman Cain at just under nine percent. Ron Paul finished with six percent, Newt Gingrich with four percent, Rick Santorum with two percent, and Jon Huntsman rounded out the field with one percent."posted by ericb at 1:19 PM on July 11, 2011
Notice that in their logo, in The Marriage Vow document, and throughout their website, the “I” in FAMiLY is never capitalized? . . . women who are unwilling to subordinate and sacrifice themselves to populate America’s economic and political war machine are selfish with a capital “I” - s.e.l.f.I.s.h.
Female self-abnegation is a core principle of the growing “Quiverfull” contingent of the Evangelical community’s “Biblical Family Values” movement which calls upon submissive wives to stay at home to conceive and birth large quantities of ”foot soldiers for Jesus” to advance the Kingdom of God on earth.
If that was what you were advocating it would be fine. What you're actually doing is asserting that the hypocrisy exists because he MUST be a big ol' flaming gay because of his speech and mannerisms. So based on that proof of his gay-ness he's a hypocrite.First of all I don't really know if there's a real connection between these mannerisms and the gay. There are a lot of regional mannerisms that can seem gay. Like upper class British or upper-class deep southern guys sometimes.
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