Evan over at Truth Wins Out has been on this story for a year. I was clueless until I saw a clip (on Hardball) of Marcus Bachmann on some wingnut talk radio show yapping about the Homosexual Agenda:
PING!
There’s absolutely nothing wrong with being gay, of course. Unless you run a taxpayer-subsidized “Christian counseling” clinic that purports to cure children of Teh Ghey. And unless you want to serve as First Lady to a bug-eyed loon who claims that teaching kids tolerance is “child abuse” and that being gay is “from Satan.” Then it becomes problematic.
UPDATE:Sully notices the “eery similarity” between the voices of Mr. Bachmann and Corky St. Clair. By jove, he’s right!
When it comes to dispensing commentary on certain topics, sometimes the way one has lived one’s life is just self-disqualifying. For example, it would be goddamned unseemly for me to lecture another blogger for using profanity. Amy Winehouse probably isn’t your go-to gal for sobriety tips. Kanye West has not been asked to write a column on awards show decorum.
And Newt Gingrich, for the sweet love of Christ, should really clam up on the topic of matrimony. But no:
Republican presidential contender Newt Gingrich on Saturday said the adoption of same-sex marriage in New York showed the nation is “drifting toward a terrible muddle.”
Saying he thinks marriage is between a man and a woman, he told reporters that he “would like to find ways to defend that view as legitimately and effectively as possible.”
“I think the president should be, frankly, enforcing [DOMA], and I think we are drifting toward a terrible muddle which I think is going to be very, very difficult and painful to work our way out of,” he said.
Though probably not quite as painful as receiving divorce papers while recovering from cancer surgery. Look, we all know Gingrich’s “candidacy” is really about receiving free publicity so he can continue his very profitable direct-mail scam enterprise.
I’ve got no problem with that—it’s no worse than parlaying a truncated political career into reality show gigs and book deals for oneself and one’s unemployable offspring. But must the republic endure the further indignity of being lectured on marriage by a serial adulterer who transforms normal women into frightening gynoids? I think not, fellow citizens. I think not.
Just because it wasn’t enough that snark-flatlining Daily Caller cub Laura Donovan can’t recognize irony even when Anderson Cooper titles a segment “RidicuList,” or that she hasn’t the faintest idea how to walk back a glaring error gracefully, one of her DC elders rushed to throw a lifeline to the “professional journalist and columnist”—it says so right at the top of her blog!—and sadly snide whippersnapper.
Cooper had lectured the young lady like an exasperated freshman English professor addressing an especially sluggish legacy student, and didn’t spare the Caller for printing the glorified intern’s misreporting:
“I bet at The Daily Caller, if someone tells a knock knock joke everyone runs to the door and waits to see who comes in.
Naturally, Treacher showed both Anderson and whiny little Laura how real commentary is done: knock-knock, Anderson Cooper is TEH GHEY! Har!
Knock, knock!
Who’s there?
Anderson Cooper.
Well, thank you for stopping by, but we really don’t need any Mary Kay.
Sadly, stampeding employees at the DC never caught Treacher’s punchline, and several had to be treated for doorknob-shaped contusions.
New York State Senator Mark Grisanti made possibly the speech of the night, in a night of speeches both moving and, in the case of one particularasshat, incomprehensible (See GOP Senator Stephen Saland wrestle with Diaz, followed by the roll call vote, cheers, and more Diaz asshattery below the jump):
I’m sure it’s indicative of some awful character flaw, but I must admit I’m enjoying the homophobes’ consternation about New York’s shiny new marriage equality law almost as much as I’m enjoying the fact that the measure passed.
Are you a terrible person too? Then come sit by me, and let’s take a short schadenfreude tour…
Please see Strange’s thread below for as-it-happened reactions of joy, retraction, joy again, plus a damned good argument against any kind of marriage.
But now, snark-free, hooray and amen. Can’t wait to see the happy couples lining up at City Hall.
**UPDATE** The Empire State shows her colors (For Gay Pride, she would usually be just Lavender):
NOM’s Maggie Gallagher threatened to unleash a million dollars in NOM-cash to defeat Republicans who vote for the marriage equality bill in New York, which betrays a certain level of desperation:
Is there a Mr. Gallagher whom she’s afraid will go all homo-gay if a bunch of New Yorkers she doesn’t even know are allowed to tie the knot? As usual, when asked to give reasons why their lives revolve around denying marriage equality to LGBT folks, the NOMbies cite Jeebus and some unspecified threat to children.
Former Giants receiver David Tyree jumped on the NOM bandwagon with a somewhat novel argument: He opposes equal marriage to prevent “anarchy” such as that which exists in places like the Netherlands. Oh wait…
Regardless of what happens in New York this week, marriage equality is coming. And people like Gallagher and Tyree will assume their place in the Pantheon of Bigoted Jerks in American History alongside folks like the jeering rednecks in Little Rock and George Wallace circa 1963.
At least that’s how Michele Bachmann perceived it when two of her constituents tried to carry on a debate with her following a town hall event in 2005. From the (shouty, all-caps) police report (via the Minnesota Independent) Bachmann filed:
BACHMAN [sic] STATED THAT WHEN SHE WAS GETTING READY TO LEAVE SHE WENT TO THE RESTROOM. SENATOR BACHMAN STATED THAT WHEN SHE WAS TRYING TO LEAVE THE RESTROOM, 2 WOMEN BLOCKED IN AND TOLD HER THEY WANTED TO CONTINUE TALKING. SEN BACHMAN STATED SHE WAS AFRAID AND SCREAMED FOR HELP. THE 2 WOMEN LET HER LEAVE THE RESTROOM WHEN SHE SCREAMED. THE WOMEN ARE BELIEVED TO BE W/ THE GLBT GROUP.
Bachmann bolted out and fled, crying, to an SUV outside. Then she called the police, saying, according to the police report, that she was “absolutely terrified and has never been that terrorized before as she had no idea what those two women were going to do to her.”
They were going to shackle her to the toilet and take turns raping her with strap-on dildos, obviously. This is what lesbians—even 5-foot-tall ex-nun lesbians—do.
The Washington County attorney, however, declined to press charges, writing in a memo, “It seems clear from the statements given by both women that they simply wanted to discuss certain issues further with Ms. Bachmann.”
Yeah, but the Washington County attorney wasn’t in that bathroom to see the unbridled lust for a hunk o’ Michele-meat gleaming in their eyes.
ANNAPOLIS, FEBRUARY 24, 2011 - Today the Maryland Senate voted 25-21 to pass SB 116, the Civil Marriage Protection Act, legislation that would end the exclusion of gay and lesbian couples from marriage in Maryland. Equality Maryland, along with members of the Senate and everyday Marylanders who believe in fairness, celebrate this victory and acknowledge the work ahead to make marriage equality a reality.
Seriously. His spokespeep’s official response to Obama’s announcement that he believes DOMA is unconstitutional and the DOJ will no longer defend it was:
While Americans want Washington to focus on creating jobs and cutting spending, the President will have to explain why he thinks now is the appropriate time to stir up a controversial issue that sharply divides the nation,
Are you kidding me?!? Since the latest Congress convened the Repubs have not done one thing that could be considered “job creating”. Instead they have focused on redefining “rape” to require that women be beat up or it doesn’t count, and trying to ram through massive spending cuts, including de-funding public broadcasting and Planned Parenthood’s community health centers. And given the news that these spending cuts could eliminate up to, count ‘em, 1,000,000 jobs, Speaker John “Let Them Eat Cake” Boehner responded “so be it”.
I guess I should be deeply offended that, after doing nothing whatsoever to create jobs, Boehner criticizes Obama’s announcement regarding DOMA because he should be out there creating more jobs instead!!! However, for those who are incapable of multi-tasking, people like Obama must make them feel rather inadequate and inclined to lash out irrationally. Plus IOKIYAR.
UPDATE Bahahahahaha! Mike Huckabee says gay marriage doesn’t just kill jobs it kills heterosexual marriages!
Huckabee opposes gay marriage on the grounds that, according to him, it destroys traditional families.
“There is a quantified impact of broken families,” Huckabee said. “[There is a] $300 billion dad deficit in America every year…that’s the amount of money that we spend as taxpayers to pick up the pieces because dads are derelict in their duties.”
Millions of dads are abandoning their families because . . . GAY MARRIAGE! Who knew? Man, they are really getting desperate with their *arguments*.
In a major reversal, the Obama administration has notified Congress that it will no longer defend the federal law that says marriage can exist only between a man and a woman.
Attorney General Eric Holder says he has recommended, and the president has agreed, that the law unconstitutionally discriminates against same-sex couples who are legally married but whose status is not recognized by the federal government.
But there’s really no difference between Republicans and Democrats. Don’t make a big deal about it. The NOM-NOMs aren’t:
WASHINGTON – The National Organization for Marriage responded to President Obama calling upon the Department of Justice to stop defending the Defense of Marriage Act:
“We have not yet begun to fight for marriage,” said Brian Brown, president of NOM.
“The Democrats are responding to their election loss with a series of extraordinary, extra-constitutional end runs around democracy, whether it’s fleeing the state in Wisconsin and Indiana to prevent a vote, or unilaterally declaring homosexuals a protected class under our Constitution, as President Obama just did,” said Brown. “We call on the House to intervene to protect DOMA, and to tell the Obama administration they have to respect the limits on their power. This fight is not over, it has only begun!”
Heh. Anything that makes those homophobic jackwagons all sputtery is full of win.
A new Daily Kos/Research2000 poll shows that former Vice President Dick Cheney is among the frontrunners for the 2012 Republican nomination for President.“This poll confirms that former Vice President Cheney would be a formidable candidate for President in 2012,” said Christopher Barron, an organizer of Draft Dick Cheney 2012, a 527 organization formed to convince the former Vice President to seek the GOP nomination for President in 2012.
It is anyone’s guess who’ll receive the 3rd Annual GOProud Tramp Stamp of Approval on February 10, 2012. However, it is a safe bet he (or she) will be rabidly conservative, loathsome, filthy rich and so full of himself that he’s stacked inside himself like a set of matryoshkas.
The anti-gay bigots at National Organization for Marriage (NOM) hotlinked a cartoon at their blog. “That was a mistake,” said the cartoonist, Zach Weiner, who promptly changed the image and sent a message NOM didn’t want to hear:
Heh! And speaking of awesome guys named Zach, the NOM blog highlighted the debate in Iowa over whether it’s proper to deface the Iowa State Constitution with anti-gay graffiti, a subject addressed by engineering student Zach Wahls, whose moving defense of his family was linked here a couple of days ago. Even the NOM-NOMs had to give it up for Mr. Wahls, despite disagreeing with his “understanding of marriage.”
