8 GOP Candidates to Speak During Anti-Gay Hatecast

[T-Rexx]

Eight (of the remaining eleven) Republican candidates for president will speak tomorrow during an anti-gay hatefest. The hate speech is a webcast to be broadcast to 160 churches in 50 states, sponsored by the Family Research Council. It will also be streamed online. The hatecast is intended to be a "training conference designed to equip people to stand up and champion religious freedom in your city.”

Speaking will be Jeb Bush, Ben Carson, Ted Cruz, Carly Fiorina, Mike Huckabee, Marco Rubio, Rick Santorum and Donald Trump. Not speaking are Chris Christie, John Kasich, or Rand Paul - although it is not clear that their lack of participation is ideological, since all three men oppose gay marriage and gay rights. (Rand Paul, in particular, has been quite adamant in his opposition to gay rights, since "rights should not be based upon a person's behavior.")

There will be other speakers as well, including various fundamentalist religious figures and Mat Staver of Liberty Council, the lawyer who represented Kim Davis. A basic theme of the broadcast will be the perceived reduction in liberty suffered by Christians as a result of extending human rights to gay people.

Every one (100%) of the original 17 Republican candidates for president opposes gay rights. Every one (100%) of the 3 Democratic candidates for president has expressed support for gay rights.

http://www.towleroad.com/2016/01/wa...ntial-candidates-speak-anti-gay-web-hatecast/

 

[TX-Beau]

If rights are not supposed to be based on a persons behavior, what about religion?

Plot hole Rand!

 

[Kabluey]

...A basic theme of the broadcast will be the perceived reduction in liberty suffered by Christians as a result of extending human rights to gay people.

I'm sure the same types of mental giants felt their liberty was reduced by things like emancipation of slaves and the civil rights movement.
Funny how they want to see their ability to harm as a right.

May as well have murderers protesting things like their impaired 'right' to kill anyone.

 

[jbrown329]

I say that all the churches that show that broadcast be stripped of their tax exempt status. They are IMHO no longer a church. They are a hate group. The Southern Poverty Law Center classifies both the Family Research Council and Focus On the Family as hate groups.

 

[jockofstrap]

So typical of the GOP candidates to pander to the bigots of hate and intolerance, forgive me to my gay Republican friends who vote a party that hates the LGTB community.

 

[nycguydowntown]

Hard to believe Trump is anti-gay---but these moron gopers will throw out any kind of hate to feed this hate based party.

 

[eastofeden]

The sad thing about this..it isn't even news anymore...it is expected....and the only thing that would be worthy of note would be the Republican Candidate who DID NOT use hate and fear to garner support....

Gay Republicans...NO EXCUSE!

 

[vidarr]

So, does this mean we can expect to see a few more candidates drop out before the election?

At this point they are riding the media outrage. They've taken after Trump's strategy of "look at me!" because they know they can't touch the Dems.

 

[TX-Beau]

So, does this mean we can expect to see a few more candidates drop out before the election?

At this point they are riding the media outrage. They've taken after Trump's strategy of "look at me!" because they know they can't touch the Dems.

Well, at the time of the election there will only be two. I wish I was so sanguine about the chances of a Democratic victory, but unfortunately the nature of the system will guarantee the right wing asshole at least 40% of the electoral votes.

 

[TX-Beau]

Perhaps it's still too early to start singing Tomorrow Belongs to Me, but the historical parallels are kinda scary.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29Mg6Gfh9Co

 

[eastofeden]

^^^People often use the "Godwin's Law" to shut down any comparison...but comparisons are often VALID...and ignoring history which DOES REPEAT ITSELF because some guy decided to coin a term is insane....

If we learn nothing from our past mistakes...uh....we are doomed to repeat them....

 

[TX-Beau]

^^^People often use the "Godwin's Law" to shut down any comparison...but comparisons are often VALID...and ignoring history which DOES REPEAT ITSELF because some guy decided to coin a term is insane....

If we learn nothing from our past mistakes...uh....we are doomed to repeat them....

I'm usually one of them, but when the front-runner of a major party starts normalizing refugee camps, mandatory minority surveillance, and political violence it's time to call it for what it is.

 

[jbrown329]

I'm usually one of them, but when the front-runner of a major party starts normalizing refugee camps, mandatory minority surveillance, and political violence it's time to call it for what it is.

Sieg heil!

 

[nycguydowntown]

Rachel Meadow just covered last years meeting--where the preacher flat out says gays need to be killed---4 republicans came to that event ---this year a different anti-christ preacher but same message---kill the gays---and more than half of the republicans running for president will show up. Nice.

 

[T-Rexx]

Rachel Meadow just covered last years meeting--where the preacher flat out says gays need to be killed---4 republicans came to that event ---this year a different anti-christ preacher but same message---kill the gays---and more than half of the republicans running for president will show up. Nice.

The preacher of whom you speak, Kevin Swanson, hosted an event in November at which Cruz, Huckabee, and Jindal (among the 2016 GOP presidential candidates) spoke. Let me say that again: three presidential hopefuls from a major American political party spoke at a rally where (at least some) of the leaders were advocating death to a minority for no reason other than unprovoked hatred of that minority. In many western democracies, such hate speech would not be legal.

The anti-gay event planned for tomorrow is analogous to 8 GOP candidates for president speaking at a KKK rally. It is astounding that the candidates would even want to associate themselves with such an event, let alone be cheered on by their party for participating.

 

[jbrown329]

Huckabee said that LGBTs should be interned. Camps.

 

[Benvolio]

Rachel Meadow just covered last years meeting--where the preacher flat out says gays need to be killed---4 republicans came to that event ---this year a different anti-christ preacher but same message---kill the gays---and more than half of the republicans running for president will show up. Nice.

Obama, for twenty years, attended a church where the preacher literally cursed America: "God damn America".
By attacking marriage, as it has historically been known, gays have unnecessarily increased hostility against themselves. Gays already had the right to marry and live together in all but government involvement.
It is wrong to say or think that Republicans hate gays because they oppose the change in the definition of marriage. Some may hate gays, just as many gays hate Christians and Republicans and whites and the rich and corporations, etc. But few Republicans would agree with the word hate.

 

[rareboy]

This kind of post is why you disgust everyone on this forum.

Firstly...

Obama, for twenty years, attended a church where the preacher literally cursed America: "God damn America".

As a politician he did not espouse or support the statements made by Jeremiah Wright.

By attacking marriage, as it has historically been known, gays have unnecessarily increased hostility against themselves.

This is the kind of sentence that either betrays you as the saddest, closeted, self hating homosexual on this site or as a straight, middle aged church lady who spends her time trolling homos. The notion that asking for equal rights and recognition under civil law is an attack on marriage is repugnant.

Gays already had the right to marry and live together in all but government involvement.

This is an outright lie. Homos did not have the right to marry. They could live together and they could draw up legal contracts to form a civil partnership, but this has never been marriage and the people living in same sex partnerships even today would be living under the threat of dire consequences if the Supreme Court had not finally ruled on the side of the angels.

It is wrong to say or think that Republicans hate gays because they oppose the change in the definition of marriage.

No. They hate gays because in addition to wanting to prevent homos from having the same right to marry the person they love, many want to strip them of rights altogether.

Some may hate gays, just as many gays hate Christians and Republicans and whites and the rich and corporations, etc. But few Republicans would agree with the word hate.

Who cares with what Republicans as a whole would agree with as a term? As long as they continue to support political candidates who espouse notions ranging from criminalizing homosexuality to internment camps...as long as they fight against protection from being fired or denied housing because of sexual orientation...they are aligning themselves with a party of hate.

But thanks for chiming in and demonstrating the contempt that you actually have for everyone on this site.

 

[Benvolio]

Alas you missed the point. You say: "As a politician he did not espouse or support the statements made by Jeremiah Wright." But you want to believe that everyone who attended the meeting, where someone allegedly advocated death for gays, agreed with what was said. That is logical fallacious, and it was one time, not twenty years.
For the early years of the United States, the governments did not get involved in marriage. No license was required and the state kept no record. Judges could marry, but most marriages were entirely religious. And in the US, after Lawrence v Texas at least, gay marriage was legal in all states. Gays could marry, in church, with tuxedos, a reception, cake, honeymoon and live happily ever after as husband and husband. Little purpose has been served by insisting on government licensing, divorcing and prosecution of bigamy. Any legal advantage to licensed marriage can be handled by contract, and must be weighed against the need for divorce on break up. Nor does it justify the hostility which it has created.

 

[rareboy]

And of course, lest we forget who's preaching to the choir....

Huckabee added: “As for gays and other communities similar to them, I really do feel that concentration camps would be a good solution. And I don’t just mean that in a way that would enable them to socialize with other members of their kind; that kind of approach would also give us a one-of-a-kind opportunity to study them and their behavior while they’re in their natural surroundings. We might even bring in some cameras, like maybe National Geographic, Discovery and the like. But, for this particular occasion, my money would be on Animal Planet. Yes, I would definitely like to see them do a series about gays in captivity.”

“I mean, I always try to do my job with a 100%, pedal-to-the-medal approach. So, you can rest assure that no gays, lesbians and other fornicators would be spared from the roundup, regardless of whether they happen to be my friends or not. And the best part about the whole idea is the fact that we would most likely be able to develop a cure in such conditions. We would have unhindered access to many members of the population, which means a constant source of test subjects in laboratory conditions. We’d better learn how to spot the symptoms early on and prevent the disease before it reaches adulthood.”

http://politicalo.com/gays-camps/

This kind of talk is so repugnant as to produce a visceral reaction and bring tears to my eyes.

Remind you of anything???????

And the worst part is that the Republican Party candidates and party power brokers remain silent.

In less than a century after the same kind of banal evil and hate led to the holocaust.....the idea that any legitimate contender for the office of president of the United States would go on record with this type of resonant threatening talk is beyond decency.

If this is not hate...what is hate?