Jim Crow laws for LGBT

[jbrown329]

This isn't germane for anyone outside of the USA. Don't trash me for using Jim Crow, it's the headline of the article.

This is from the party that the Log Cabin Republicans support. And just when this shit ever stop? NEVER.
Republicans Just Endorsed A Jim Crow Law For Gays
Author: Oliver Willis August 23, 2015 8:52 pm

The Republican National Committee gave its backing to a law designed to treat gay Americans as second class citizens. After the Supreme Court ruled on Obergefell v. Hodges, which made same-sex marriage legal in the entire United States, the Committee recently passed a resolution urging Congress to pass the so-called First Amendment Defense Act (FADA).
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[Brian Smith]

That's like laying inroads for giving federal backing to hate groups.

Sounds like Berlin in the early 20th Century, ladies and gentlemen.

Is it okay to just say that conservatives are evil YET?

 

[thewiz]

I have to wonder how gay Republicans can look at themselves in the mirror. I've gone to a number of their functions in DC and I always have to ask them how they can participate with a group that hates them; that seeks to undermine their existence; that seeks to deny them rights; and relegates them to a "table in the back" if at all?

 

[mightbe]

Is it okay to just say that conservatives are evil YET?

No, just Republicans.

 

[ChickenGuy]

Is it okay to just say that conservatives are evil YET?

No.

If they TRULY were, gays would be being executed live on TV across the Bible Belt, bombs would be going off at American gay pride parades in Southern states killing dozens, and all their much-loved guns would be used by mobs to massacre gay people every week or month who gather anywhere. In short, GENOCIDE.

(que some people trying to erroneously claim I'm a full-blooded Republican supporter as a means to distract and divert attention away from my paragraph above - and even if I WAS, my point would still stand)

Wake up and stop the irresponsible hystericlal runaway rhetoric.

 

[jbrown329]

I have to wonder how gay Republicans can look at themselves in the mirror. I've gone to a number of their functions in DC and I always have to ask them how they can participate with a group that hates them; that seeks to undermine their existence; that seeks to deny them rights; and relegates them to a "table in the back" if at all?

Years ago I was down at the park. They had a table set up there. As I walked by, one of those asshats tried to talk to me and hand me some literature. Yeah right. I gave him the dirtiest look I've ever given someone. Then told him where he could stuff that literature. I also called him a few choice names.

 

[MisterB]

I have to wonder how gay Republicans can look at themselves in the mirror. I've gone to a number of their functions in DC and I always have to ask them how they can participate with a group that hates them; that seeks to undermine their existence; that seeks to deny them rights; and relegates them to a "table in the back" if at all?

I'm curious to hear just what type of responses you get from these folks to your questions?

 

[rareboy]

I'm curious to hear just what type of responses you get from these folks to your questions?

I can answer that. They are pocketbook republicans who more often than not are also unrepentant racists. Those are their priorities.

 

[jbrown329]

I'm curious to hear just what type of responses you get from these folks to your questions?

I finally quit going to the Pride parade here. Assholes like that standing on the parade route screaming the most vial things. When I damn near squeezed some prick's neck until his head popped like a zit, I knew it was time to not go again.

 

[T-Rexx]

Is it okay to just say that conservatives are evil YET?

No, just Republicans.

It is well to remember that the Republican Party is NOT an American conservative party. The party that adheres most closely to traditional conservative principles in the USA is the Democratic Party. Compare the UK conservatives with our Democratic Party and you will find our Democrats to the right of the UK conservatives on many issues.

The Republican Party is an American fundamentalist religious party of the right. While it often claims to represent a conservative ideology, its behavior in office has been anything but. And while our Democratic Party often claims to be "progressive" in outlook, it has in fact been quite conservative in office.

 

[jbrown329]

"This Republican Party of Lincoln has become a party of theocracy."
-- U.S. Representative Christopher Shays, R-CT, (New York Times, March 23, 2005)

 

[hotatlboi]

That's like laying inroads for giving federal backing to hate groups.

Sounds like Berlin in the early 20th Century, ladies and gentlemen.

Is it okay to just say that conservatives are evil YET?

It's an absurdly broad and ridiculous statement. A lot of conservatives support equal rights and marriage equality these days. It's mainly the GOP party leadership where no support exists.

Nondiscrimination in housing and employment has consistently polled in the 70-80% range over the past few years, that obviously includes a lot of conservatives and Republicans.

 

[thewiz]

I can answer that. They are pocketbook republicans who more often than not are also unrepentant racists. Those are their priorities.

Ding..ding...ding. That is exactly their point. They are "conservative" and want to "keep every dollar I make."

I have found it ironic on two occasions when two who almost screamed how I could be a Democrat ended up taking advantage of the safety net they would have cut for everyone else. One was a young man, in his prime and who questioned my sanity for switching to being a Democrat. Well, after he had an unexpected health issue that threw him $18,000 in debt, then he lost his job because the restaurant he worked at closed, and then he got drunk at a Republican fund raiser and had his contract cancelled where he worked on the hill -- he found himself without a place to sleep, eat, or survive. We let him crash on our couch for a few weeks until he could find another restaurant job. We still get his mail for all the dunning notices and collection agencies which we mark "no forwarding address" and send back. He didn't seem to have a problem going to the assistance office to see about help or to get his PReP prescriptions renewed (under DC health care provisions).

The other guy was an attorney. He, too, had no use for "people that can't pay their bills -- those welfare bums." After he lost a contract at a defense contractor (for coming to work intoxicated), he lost his house, lost his apartment, lost his car, and spent two nights sleeping on a bench in Dupont Circle. He went to Whitman-Walker Gay Men's Clinic and was provided a housing subsidy until he can get on his feet again. He was shaking from detox and smelled like a bum when he came to our house and the hubby cut and styled his hair so he didn't look like a street person. I asked how he felt about that safety net and he just looked at the floor.

Yup, it's easy to look down on people; it is much harder to have to look up.

Miracles can happen. Our friend Jimmy just left the Republican Party and has a book coming out in October. Some do see the light:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/...d-co-founder-gives-up-leaves-Republican-Party

 

[chrisrobin]

I have to wonder how gay Republicans can look at themselves in the mirror. I've gone to a number of their functions in DC and I always have to ask them how they can participate with a group that hates them; that seeks to undermine their existence; that seeks to deny them rights; and relegates them to a "table in the back" if at all?

I have to wonder how gay Republicans can look at themselves in the mirror.

What if there's no reflection?

 

[Vitamin]

What if there's no reflection?

This needs to be a test for gay Republicans as I suspect they are really witches: If you can hold their heads under water for 30 minutes and they die it's because the Lord has ripped their souls out of their bodies and denied them their reflections on the water's surface, and are therefore clearly a witch.

 

[luckynumbah7]

No.

If they TRULY were, gays would be being executed live on TV across the Bible Belt, bombs would be going off at American gay pride parades in Southern states killing dozens, and all their much-loved guns would be used by mobs to massacre gay people every week or month who gather anywhere. In short, GENOCIDE.

What makes you think they're not itching to? Just because the 'gay panic!' defense is no longer as popular doesn't mean they aren't still killing lgbt ppl. Tho in the case of trans people the gay panic defense is still quite popular when paired with the 'your very existence is deceptive', which happens along with a holst of other shit like denying generic medical care that's illegal unless you happen to be trans. Then again, it isn't just republicans on the trans panic/let them die score, is it.

I mean, come on. When was the last time you heard someone was murdered because they had the gall to be straight?

 

[TX-Beau]

I have to wonder how gay Republicans can look at themselves in the mirror...

When you are bent over grabbing your ankles you can't see the mirror. It's the ultimate bottom, no matter how soundly they get gang-fucked, they enjoy it anyway!

 

[jbrown329]

^^^ word ^^^
That was for luckynumbah7's post.

 

[TX-Beau]

No.

If they TRULY were, gays would be being executed live on TV across the Bible Belt, bombs would be going off at American gay pride parades in Southern states killing dozens, and all their much-loved guns would be used by mobs to massacre gay people every week or month who gather anywhere. In short, GENOCIDE.

(que some people trying to erroneously claim I'm a full-blooded Republican supporter as a means to distract and divert attention away from my paragraph above - and even if I WAS, my point would still stand)

Wake up and stop the irresponsible hysterical runaway rhetoric.

Silly boy. I'd love to put you in a honkytonk in rural Mississippi where you could appreciate the tender mercies of the far right.

Gay men in the South get bashed on a regular basis - the cops don't care, because they think your perversion deserves it.

 

[Zu-Mendel]

And people wonder why I carry a gun on me wherever I'm legally able to.