Montana Republicans New Official Party Policy: Make Homosexuality Illegal

[T-Rexx]

Montana Republicans met in June to adopt a new official party platform. It was an opportunity for the GOP there to update the platform, get rid of outdated issues, and add new concerns. But they decided to keep in a few planks from the old platform as they revise - including the making of homosexuality illegal.

"We support the clear will of the people of Montana - expressed by legislation - to keep homosexual acts illegal."

Making homosexuality illegal in Montana has been a plank in the Republican Party's platform there for the past 12 years. It was adopted after the Montana Supreme Court struck down anti-homosexual hate laws as illegal in 1997. Republicans say that the court should not be "legislating" - by which they mean it should not, for example, be ruling that homosexuals have rights. If the people of Montana want to pass hate legislation, it is no business of the court to strike down the will of the people in protection of human rights.

"There had been at the time, and still is, a substantial portion of Republican legislators that believe it is more important for the legislature to make the law instead of the Supreme Court," Montana GOP executive director Bowen Greenwood said.

My head spins sometimes at the stupidy and hatred of the Republican Party. What drives those people to such bizarre extremes?


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_gays_in_montana

 

[T-Rexx]

^ That's precisely the point! Even most Republicans realize what they're doing is stupid beyond comprehension - and yet they still do it!

How can a group of people who understand how wrong this is nevertheless push this platform of hate?

Are they really that anti-American?

 

[BostonPirate]

the platform stil lhas that anti gay plank.

its the reality

 

[MoltenRock III]

Republicans are such hypocrites about the Constitution it isn't even funny. They bellow and cry about being "strict Constitutionalists" yet in this current session of Congress Republicans have proffered 42 amendments they want to add/repeal/change.

And they ignore the fact that the extreme rightwing SCOTUS side hasn't "strict Constitutionalists" at all. It's a word game Republicans play to pontificate to people when a judge acts in a way they don't like.

 

[bike10]

I see they join with state of Texas to outlaw homsexuality. What happens to those gay Republicans?

 

[CowboyBob]

Demagoguery at his highest. I can't understand how any gay person can support this political party. Will these few JUB Republicans who post here still agree with them when the police drag their asses to jail for being gay?

Iran hangs you for being gay. We can equate some Republicans with Muslim Iranians.

 

[construct]

I see they join with state of Texas to outlaw homsexuality. What happens to those gay Republicans?

I'll tell you what doesn't happen to gay Republicans in Texas. They don't get display space and the state convention.

Contrast that with the fact that anti-choice Democrats get display space despite the party's commitment to protect a woman's right to choose.

 

[construct]

Demagoguery at his highest. I can't understand how any gay person can support this political party. Will these few JUB Republicans who post here still agree with them when the police drag their asses to jail for being gay?

That would require a federal constitutional amendment to remove sodomy from the protection of the Fourteenth Amendment. That's not going to happen. It wouldn't pass Congress because it couldn't get two thirds of the vote.