"Why Sarah Palin decided to get in the race is beyond me. I don't know why she feels compelled to get into primaries all over the country. … Well, yes, I wish she [would butt out of contested primaries] because what she is doing is dividing the Republican Party at a time when we don't need to be divided," – Congressman Jack Kingston.
Man is he in for a shellacking.
"Most great powers unravel from within before invading armies (or in America's case, terrorists) conquer them. A preacher might develop a good sermon on how nations fare when they mock God. No less a theological thinker than Abraham Lincoln concluded that our Civil War might have been God's judgment for America's tolerance of slavery. If that were so, why should "the Almighty," as Lincoln frequently referred to God, stay His hand in the face of our celebration of same-sex marriage?" – Cal Thomas, losing his shit, Washington Examiner.
He makes no actual argument, of course, on why civil marriage cannot be extended to gay couples.
"Conservatives cannot deny that our Founders intended the judiciary as an equal and independent branch of government purposed to ensure the protection of every citizen’s rights. The Supreme Court has previously ruled that the right to marry is a fundamental constitutional right.
When an unpopular minority is denied the right to marry, it is indeed the role of the courts to protect the rights of that minority, especially when a majority would deny them. This is why Judge Walker’s opinion reads, “That the majority of California voters supported Proposition 8 is irrelevant, as fundamental rights may not be submitted to [a] vote; they depend on the outcome of no elections.”
Not to mention that conservatives have a flawed history with civil rights, a trend that began when Barry Goldwater opposed the Civil Rights Act as unconstitutional. While Goldwater was no racist there is clearly a conservative precedent for a breakdown at the intersection of ideology and reality," – Fox News contributor Margaret Hoover, in an open letter to "fellow conservatives."
The spawn of the spawn of Kristol:
Wonkette finds an "Anti-Manhattan Mosque Rock Anthem" that could have been plucked from the Team America soundtrack.
"Republicans won’t get away with this Cantor-like dodge for long. They will lose, and they should lose, credibility with the public if they can’t be far more specific than Mr. Cantor," – Pete Wehner.
"If this ruling is upheld, millions of Americans will face for the first time a legal system that is committed to the view that our deeply held moral views on sex and marriage are unacceptable in the public square, the fruit of bigotry that should be discredited, stigmatized and repressed. Parents will find that, almost Soviet-style, their own children will be re-educated using their own tax dollars to disrespect their parents' views and values," – Maggie Gallagher.
No. Unlike the far right, we gays believe in total freedom of religion. You are free to tell your children that the earth was created 6,000 years ago and that they must not eat shell-fish or mix fabrics and that gay people are condemned to hell. You are free to preach this from the rooftops. You can encourage your children, even the gay ones, to marry opposite-sex wives and husbands; you can disseminate information that stigmatizes gays; etc etc. But you cannot disenfranchise your fellow citizens in a civil institution because of your religious beliefs.
You cannot erect a Christianist legal version of Dhimmitude vis-a-vis gay people. Not in America.
“I am running against Iowa’s chief sodomite,” – Dave Leach, who is running for state Senate District 31 in Des Moines against Democratic incumbent Matt McCoy
"One of the things Obama’s been doing is deliberately trying to increase the percentage of our population that is dependent on government for your living. For example, do you know what was the second biggest demographic group that voted for Obama? Obviously the blacks were the biggest demographic, y’all know what was the second biggest? Unmarried women. 70% of unmarried women voted for Obama. And this is because when you kick your husband out, you’ve got to have Big Brother Government to be your provider. And they know that. They’ve admitted it. And they have all kinds of bills to continue to subsidize illegitimacy… The Obama administration wants to continue to subsidize this group because they know they are Democratic votes," – Phyllis Schlafly. "The blacks" – nice touch.
"Muslim Day at Six Flags is inappropriate for a multitude of reasons and I'm saddened and shocked by the ignorance of the Corporate folks and by the action that now must be taken by the rest of us. … Islam is dying in America because Americans are learning (finally) what Muslims are about, what their 'faith' is based upon, how they're recruited, how they prey on the weak, their idea of 'rights' how they cannot ever respect our constitution because it's in direct violation with Sharia and how they must abide by a set of laws called dualism, compelling them to lie to others.
It is becoming WELL KNOWN that ISLAM IS DYING IN AMERICA, despite what you might be hearing from CAIR and others – the more it dies, the more frantic they become and the more they put out press releases about how 'fabulous' things are, new mosques, etc…(except they are broke and hitting others up for funds)
STOP placating them – in addition, there is no such thing as a moderate muslim, regardless of what you've heard – from the mouth of the son of a well known Imam. Islam is as Islam does. And Regardless of what you might think, there is no such thing of a 'mild' muslim, even the 'quiet' ones who live on the street corner, drive the BMW and work in the dr's office…they go to mosque, satisfy the pillars, pray, etc…and the money they are giving, that is funding terror.
it is funding terror – and by your silence, YOU are funding terror. YOU are funding terror.
STOP THE SILENCE. STOP THE NONSENCE. STOP THE MUSLIM DAY – THEY ARE NOT AMERICANS. THEY DO NOT ABIDE BY OUR CONSTITUTION – THEY ARE NOT ONE OF US – YOU ARE EITHER WITH US OR AGAINST US – MAKE YOUR DECISION.STOP THE MUSLIM DAY – THEY ARE NOT AMERICANS. THEY DO NOT ABIDE BY OUR CONSTITUTION – THEY ARE NOT ONE OF US," – official Tea Party blogger, Annie Hamilton.
The GOP and the Tea party are slowly morphing into a movement that opposes not just Jihadism and terror, but Islam itself as a religion, and Muslim-Americans as a legitimate minority. The rhetoric on the right is now about Islam being a "cult" or an "ideology" – and thereby outside the protection of the First Amendment.
And for the record, one of the founders of the event at Six Flags was a Muslim killed on 9/11, and the September 12 date is to mark the end of Ramadan on September 10, and was moved specifically to avoid the 9/11 date.
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