The bigotry that dares not speak its name
According to Sue Everhart, chair of the Georgia Republican Party, the push for marriage equality isn’t about equality at all.
It’s a massive financial scam.
As she told the Marietta Daily Journal:
“Say you had a great job with the government where you had this wonderful health plan. I mean, what would prohibit you from saying that you’re gay, and y’all get married and still live as separate, but you get all the benefits? I just see so much abuse in this it’s unreal. I believe a husband and a wife should be a man and a woman, the benefits should be for a man and a woman. There is no way that this is about equality. To me, it’s all about a free ride.”
That’s the kind of weirdness you get when irrational bigotry tries to rationalize itself. Rather than acknowledge to yourself that yes, you are indeed treating people as second-class citizens, you invent a reason that you find less threatening to your self-image:
“I’m not a bigot. I’m just …. concerned about fraud. Yeah, that’s the ticket. Fraud! Abuse!”
Everhart also made it clear that “I’m not saying that we ostracize (gay people) or anything like that. I’m just saying I’m against marriage because once you get the gay marriage you get everything else.”
I’m not sure what that “everything else” might be. I’m not sure I want to know.
– Jay Bookman
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saywhat?
April 1st, 2013
11:45 am
first!
Bigotry tries to hide in all kinds of silly transparent ways.
Normal, Plain and Simple
April 1st, 2013
11:46 am
Back when I was in the Navy, it was common for waves and sailors to get married and collect separate housing/living/dependent benefits, so what she says could happen. There will always be the scam artists among us. A minor percentage of people who will taint the whole game. What is sad though is those people who will focus on that small percentage to try to bring the whole game down…those are the true scam artists…
stands for decibels
April 1st, 2013
11:48 am
Sue Everhart, chair of the Georgia Republican Party
holy crap–this national-news joke-of-the-week, she’s actually the GA GOP chair?
I didn’t realize that.
(Wonder for how long?)
stands for decibels
April 1st, 2013
11:50 am
“I’m not saying that we ostracize (gay people)”
mighty white of her.
Joe Hussein Mama
April 1st, 2013
11:51 am
Nitwits in the GA GOP — like Sue Everhart — are a big part of why I don’t want any part of the GOP any more.
stands for decibels
April 1st, 2013
11:52 am
Props to our own J-Reb, who said downstairs:
I don’t know much about Sue Everhart, but she needs a reality check. Gay marriage is not about fraud and including fraud in talking points is ridiculous and for us Repubs embarrassing.
Yeah. I would think so. We’ll see.
Fred ™
April 1st, 2013
11:52 am
It’s better to be fast to not be bitten by a werewolf and then you’ll be turned into one and you’ll have to stay in and then you’ll have to get shaved because you’ll get to hot and then you’re like roar roar roar roar roar roar roar roar, which means I wish I was back to a human………….
And what?
It’s not complicated…….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDL8V_Xu8us
Logical Dude
April 1st, 2013
11:53 am
It’s because there’s so much fraud already with straight couples that with gay couples, we’ll double the fraud!
Oh wait. . .
Sagegirl
April 1st, 2013
11:53 am
Hey Jay, you scooped my scoop from below. LOL
Look before I leap...
April 1st, 2013
11:53 am
OK. Let me get this straight (NPI).
Gay marriage will lead to pedophile goat-effers who commit fraud?
Just wanna make sure I get the talking points down correct.
CJ
April 1st, 2013
11:54 am
RE: “…what would prohibit you from saying that you’re gay, and y’all get married and still live as separate, but you get all the benefits…”
Applying Everhart’s logic (using the term loosely), what prohibits a man and a woman from getting married specifically to “get all the benefits?”
Erwin's cat
April 1st, 2013
11:54 am
To say it hasn’t or won’t happen would be foolish, it would be equally as foolish to think it is/will be widespread
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
April 1st, 2013
11:55 am
She’s only just now seen I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry ?
Geez….
Fred ™
April 1st, 2013
11:56 am
OK. Let me get this straight (NPI).
Gay marriage will lead to pedophile goat-effers who commit fraud?
NO they’ll be bitten by a werewolf then you’ll turn into a werewolf and……………….
Joe Hussein Mama
April 1st, 2013
11:57 am
L. Dude — “It’s because there’s so much fraud already with straight couples that with gay couples, we’ll double the fraud!”
“Oh wait. . .”
My wife had a friend in college who did the fake straight marriage thing. From what my wife tells me, her circle of friends included a young fellow from one of the countries that once was Used-To-Be-Slavia, and he got some kind of draft notice from his home country. I guess he didn’t want to get his bohunkus shot off, and apparently there was some kind of exemption he could get so long as he was married to a foreign national and living in her country.
So this guy apparently talked one of my wife’s friends into it and they got hitched. No idea what happened after that; p’raps I’ll ask my wife if any of her Facebook friends are still in contact with the girl that married the guy.
Logical Dude
April 1st, 2013
11:57 am
Quoting Sue Everhart above: “I just see so much abuse in this it’s unreal.”
That’s right, because it’s in your imagination.
Or does that mean she sees that much abuse NOW with married couples? Does that mean she thinks straight folks shouldn’t marry because they might abuse the system?
If I could shake my head at this, I think my head would wobble as bad as those creatures from hell in that movie with that demon.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
April 1st, 2013
11:57 am
What’s to keep straight people from doing the same thing?
Brosephus™
April 1st, 2013
11:58 am
Said it downstairs, and I’ll say it again. Just damn!!!
stands for decibels
April 1st, 2013
12:00 pm
Anyone seen the Marietta Daily Journal story Jay’s linked?
Talk about burying the lede! this GOP chairwoman’s comments are twenty-six (26) grafs down–she basically gets cast as the fuddy duddy party pooper who doesn’t like all those Face-Bookers choosing that red Equality graphics for their profile pics.
Sagegirl
April 1st, 2013
12:01 pm
I worry about people like her. I bet she has trouble finding her way to work.
Erwin's cat
April 1st, 2013
12:01 pm
I never knew my benefit package could be MY benefit package…I’m deep in shallowness
Fred ™
April 1st, 2013
12:02 pm
EC? You never knew your package had benefit?
Brosephus™
April 1st, 2013
12:02 pm
Fred @ 11:52
stands for decibels
April 1st, 2013
12:03 pm
I’m deep in shallowness
indeed. that wasn’t funny at all and I am not stealing it. no sir.
East Cobb RINO, Inc (LLC)
April 1st, 2013
12:03 pm
“…once you get the gay marriage you get everything else.”
Gay affairs with the pool boy, gay divorce, gay spousal support payments, gay re-marriage. All the fun and excitement us heteros get to experience with marriage.
Cherokee
April 1st, 2013
12:04 pm
LOL Fred….
Erwin's cat
April 1st, 2013
12:04 pm
EC? You never knew your package had benefit?
i’ve got a special purpose
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymucqmjJs20
larry
April 1st, 2013
12:04 pm
Every time that i think its safe to say i was born and my family is from Cobb County, the stupid raises their ugly heads.
Chair of the Georgia GOP, yep that says alot. I wonder if she put her invisable ink on and was actually sitting in that chair Eastwood was arguing with last summer.
Brosephus™
April 1st, 2013
12:06 pm
You first have to open the box to determine whether the package benefits or not.
F. Sinkwich
April 1st, 2013
12:06 pm
What she said was silly.
Obamacare will force employers to eliminate spouse coverage anyway.
Doggone/GA
April 1st, 2013
12:07 pm
“Applying Everhart’s logic (using the term loosely), what prohibits a man and a woman from getting married specifically to “get all the benefits?””
None. I knew a couple who were life partners for years, but not married. When she became ill with an incurable, but protracted disease…they were married so she would be covered by his insurance. I do NOT see that as a “scam” but simply a way to deal with the reality of a wonderful partnership that got slapped upside the head(s) by a changing situation.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
April 1st, 2013
12:08 pm
“When packages are outlawed, only outlaws will have packages.”
– Thomas “Ron Jeremy” Jefferson
East Cobb RINO, Inc (LLC)
April 1st, 2013
12:08 pm
The proper way to work that scam would be with 2 gay guys and 2 lesbians. The gay guys “get married” to the lesbians. Then they all 4 share the same house.
stands for decibels
April 1st, 2013
12:08 pm
You know what’s actually kind of sad about this?
Read her remarks again–Jay quoted them already but I’m gonna copy/paste that same graf, again:
“You may be as straight as an arrow, and you may have a friend that is as straight as an arrow,” Everhart said. “Say you had a great job with the government where you had this wonderful health plan. I mean, what would prohibit you from saying that you’re gay, and y’all get married and still live as separate, but you get all the benefits? I just see so much abuse in this it’s unreal. I believe a husband and a wife should be a man and a woman, the benefits should be for a man and a woman. There is no way that this is about equality. To me, it’s all about a free ride.”
Think about what is REALLY behind this. What she is saying is that a man and a woman can’t form a friendship like two people of the same sex might do, in order to do this sham-marriage thingie that keeps her up nights. I guess she’s thinking that if two opposite sexers who were “straight as an arrow” were to even try such a thing, why, they’re gonna want to do the nasty-nasty with each other, and, then… IT’LL BE A REAL MARRIAGE! JUST LIKE IN THE MOOVIEZ!
Did I say it was sad? mostly it’s just stupid. But I felt this point needed makin’.
Look before I leap...
April 1st, 2013
12:09 pm
I can’t help but think that when you join the GOP, you get put on an email list and you get a daily notice titled, “Stupid sh(i)t to say today”.
Erwin's cat
April 1st, 2013
12:10 pm
Then they all 4 share the same house.
and become a reality show
Brosephus™
April 1st, 2013
12:10 pm
Kam
williebkind
April 1st, 2013
12:10 pm
Here we go again using the B I G O T. When someone has a deep belief that has stood for thousands of years and the progressive liberals decided it is a good way to target their political enemies out comes the word bigot. Well Jay call me a bigot because I will not give up my values and beliefs so a man can put his body part in a t*u*r*d and call it normal.
David Granger
April 1st, 2013
12:10 pm
When I was in the army, two gay couples got married. Each of the two men in one gay couple married one of the women in the other gay couple. They all rented a two bedroom apartment and the men shared one bedroom, while the two women shared the other. Each one got an adjusted “quarters” and “food” allowance…and they were doing pretty well. Sham marriages have been around a long time.
DebbieDoRight - Minister Of Propaganda
April 1st, 2013
12:10 pm
Wow! I’m amazed! You mean to tell me there’s a republican who’s actually crazy, irrational, semi-bigot, who can’t do math, unconcerned with America only concerned with their party, AND they’re claiming to know whats best for the country?
Boy! Who woulda thunk it!!
jconservative
April 1st, 2013
12:11 pm
I will vote to outlaw “gay” marriages just as soon as the rest of you vote to outlaw “straight” divorces.
Jefferson
April 1st, 2013
12:11 pm
There’s a saying…now what is it ?
williebkind
April 1st, 2013
12:12 pm
“I can’t help but think that when you join the GOP, you get put on an email list and you get a daily notice titled, “Stupid sh(i)t to say today”.”
Hey unless you have a loss of memory the liberals have been doing it for a hundred years. Are you saying the liberals do not tell you the whole truth?
Fred ™
April 1st, 2013
12:12 pm
EC: Believe it or not, I have NEVER seen that movie. I’ve always wanted too and was always GOING to, but I have never done it lol. Seen bits and pieces of it, and remember the premises from his album “Let’s Get Small” but have never actually done it.
As far as the silly equals thing…….. when are the gays gonna quit stealing everything, the words gay, partner, pride. The rainbow. The thumb ring. NOW the equal sign?
Pretty soon us straight folks ain’t gonna have nothing left and are gonna have to start stealing things back for our own code signs.
The we’ll tunr into a werewolf and we’ll have to stay in and……….
I liked this one the best. Whoever thunk it up is smart on several levels.
http://hereandnow.wbur.org/files/2013/03/0328_liberty-equals.png
DannyX
April 1st, 2013
12:12 pm
“Lord, I’m going to get in trouble over this…”
-Sue Everhart
This should be the new Republican slogan.
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
April 1st, 2013
12:12 pm
Well, I don’t know about you but I ain’t a bigot. I’m just a eensy, teensy bit prejudiced but that don’t make me a bigot. I mean, just because I don’t like Gays or Those People or a few other kind of folks don’t make me a bigot.
Anyhow, I think this woman might could be in the market for my Daddy’s white sheet and hood. Course, Bookman would never give me her name or telephone #. He won’t do it just to spite me.
Anyways, I’m against Free Rides for anybody. If you’re going to get married then I say marry a woman and be miserable like the rest of us. You won’t never get to talk again and your freedom is over. But that’s the price you got to pay to file a Joint Return and stuff like that.
Not that I’m a bigot when it comes to women or anything. Have a good lunch everybody.
DebbieDoRight - Minister Of Propaganda
April 1st, 2013
12:13 pm
That’s not news! Here’s some news:
NEWSFLASH!! Republicans Embrace Diversity, Equality AND Free Lunches For School Children!!
Or
NEWSFLASH!!! Republicans Take Off Their Shackles That Entwined Them With The 1%ers And Are Now Going To Represent Every American — Not Just The Rich Ones!!!
williebkind
April 1st, 2013
12:13 pm
DebbieDoRight – Minister Of Propaganda
April 1st, 2013
12:10 pm
What was the outcome of the vote for prop 8 in California. Come on debbie the bright one tell me.
williebkind
April 1st, 2013
12:15 pm
Well I said liberals are misogynists! That is two women the liberals have attacked today. I guess if a woman is not gay the liberals do not like her.
MANGLER
April 1st, 2013
12:15 pm
Too bad nobody in her family is gay. That seems to be what makes a GOP’er “evolve” on the issue.
Oscar
April 1st, 2013
12:15 pm
Jay, you have got to be making this up. Nobody would be stupid enough to make those statements. Is this even a real person.
Another April Fool’s joke. Got to me.
skipper
April 1st, 2013
12:15 pm
Differences of opinions do nt always define bigotry. Anybody who does not subscribe to the latest theory is a bigot, right?????????????
Fred ™
April 1st, 2013
12:15 pm
Well Jay call me a bigot because I will not give up my values and beliefs so a man can put his body part in a t*u*r*d and call it normal.
For all of you who think I have no filter just read this post and my LACK of response. Oh the thing I WANTED to say…….. it would have been FUNNY too, but perhaps not in the best of taste…………..
Regnad Kcin
April 1st, 2013
12:16 pm
” I will not give up my values and beliefs so a man can put his body part in a t*u*r*d and call it normal’
Because your personal phobias should control EVERYBODY, right?
willie lynch
April 1st, 2013
12:16 pm
“Once you get the gay marriage”? What the…??? This helps me understand why Georgia ranks in the bottom 5 in education year after year. These people are just plain stupid.
indigo
April 1st, 2013
12:16 pm
There is always fraud in America and there are always people trying to find new ways to con the Govt.
But, to suggest an avalanche of people are going to perpetuate gay marriage fraud on the Govt. is ludicrous.
What’s scary is that she is a high ranking member of the Republican Party.
Are they all this silly? Or, what is more likely, does she know the Georgia Republican electorate is, for the most part, actually dirt dumb enough to believe this?
williebkind
April 1st, 2013
12:16 pm
“outlaw “straight” divorces”
I could vote for!
Erwin's cat
April 1st, 2013
12:16 pm
I’m not sure what to think Fred
I bring up my “package” and my “special purpose”…and you come back with “Let’s Get Small”…the irony
Fred ™
April 1st, 2013
12:16 pm
Differences of opinions do nt always define bigotry. Anybody who does not subscribe to the latest theory is a bigot, right?????????????
Nathan Bedford Forrest……..
Logical Dude
April 1st, 2013
12:16 pm
williebkind @ 12:10
So, if a heterosexual couple did the same thing, you would not want them to be married either? Just because they do something you think is not natural?
See, this is where logic begins to fail in your argument.
If it’s okay for a straight couple to do it, but not for a gay couple, then your argument fails.
redneckbluedog
April 1st, 2013
12:17 pm
BUSTED…!!!!! HAHAHHAHAHA….I’ve been doing that for years..:-)….I’m living in Atlanta with my boyfriend, but he dresses up like a woman and we say we’re married so we can get benefits….and he just had lipo and laser surgery and we put it on the GA taxpayer dime…..HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA
williebkind
April 1st, 2013
12:17 pm
“But, to suggest an avalanche of people are going to perpetuate gay marriage fraud on the Govt. is ludicrous.”
Have you ever heard of welfare! You are surely one of the uninformed.
Fred ™
April 1st, 2013
12:18 pm
LOl EC. Talk about unintended consequences. That is so funny though that I WISH I had intended it……….
Probably my “best” line all year and it was an accident………
only in Georgia
April 1st, 2013
12:18 pm
This is just too funny…fraud comes in all kinds of disguises. What about the ministers that claim to be men of God and put politics in the elections (Billy Graham)?
MANGLER
April 1st, 2013
12:18 pm
skipper, considering the definition of the word bigot is someone who treats others with hatred or intolerance based on their own prejudices … yeah, I’d say her opinion pretty much defines the word bigot.
Carlos
April 1st, 2013
12:19 pm
Save us from this gay fraud !!!
williebkind
April 1st, 2013
12:19 pm
Logical Dude
April 1st, 2013
12:16 pm
That is a stupid argument but keep trying I am sure some other liberal will tell you what to think and say.
DannyX
April 1st, 2013
12:19 pm
“Well Jay call me a bigot because I will not give up my values and beliefs so a man can put his body part in a t*u*r*d and call it normal.”
Willie, what do you do in the sack?
Fred ™
April 1st, 2013
12:19 pm
Well I said liberals are misogynists! That is two women the liberals have attacked today. I guess if a woman is not gay the liberals do not like her.
This is what passes for logic amongst the foxbot crowd…………..
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
April 1st, 2013
12:20 pm
I am sure some other liberal will tell you what to think and say.
Self identified Rush Limbaugh dittoheads say, “What?”
williebkind
April 1st, 2013
12:20 pm
only in Georgia
That is another stupid argument. You guys should get some advice but you post idiotic statements like that.
Seriously Folks
April 1st, 2013
12:21 pm
So I guess the Georgia GOP is against “same sex” corporations merging? It “IS” two alike “people” getting “married”….right?? (maybe that is where she gets her comparisons to “gay” people committing fraud!!! LOL)
Fred ™
April 1st, 2013
12:21 pm
This is just too funny…fraud comes in all kinds of disguises. What about the ministers that claim to be men of God and put politics in the elections (Billy Graham)?
Billy Graham puts politics in ELECTION? Oh the horror…………
See? You just can’t make stupid crap like this person up. Stupid just flows naturally………
williebkind
April 1st, 2013
12:22 pm
“This is what passes for logic amongst the foxbot crowd…………..”
This is a subdued version avoiding the truth and pointing their finger at someone else. Liberals do it so goooood.
Intown
April 1st, 2013
12:22 pm
Will I ever vote for a Republican for anything? Prospects look rather dim.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
April 1st, 2013
12:22 pm
Oh dear, Wonkette has picked up on this and we are being mercilessly mocked.
http://wonkette.com/509395/georgia-gop-chair-worried-i-now-pronounce-you-chuck-larry-will-be-a-real-thing
DebbieDoRight - Minister Of Propaganda
April 1st, 2013
12:23 pm
The we’ll tunr into a werewolf and we’ll have to stay in and……….
I’d go Rrrraaa Rrraaaa Rrraaa Wooofff
Which means, “I wish I was back to a Human”…………
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqKJahgLXlA
gdrla
April 1st, 2013
12:23 pm
I’m a professional tax preparer (13 years now) & I see this each & every year between HETERO couples. Why would this be limited to GAY couples? People who are married but live separately fighting about where to send the refund check, etc. Or married folks who try to get me to file them separately with 1 of them filing as Head of Household to get the EIC and/or Child Tax Credits so their refund is bigger. Why isn’t anyone concerned about the existing abuse in the HETERO world?!
williebkind
April 1st, 2013
12:24 pm
Intown
April 1st, 2013
Since you are so ill informed you better off not voting at all. Help our country and not vote!
alex
April 1st, 2013
12:25 pm
Goodness, must have graduated from an APS ..which is a MUCH more important story about one persons misplaced worries…..Something about “might white of her ” from stands… is very disappointing, more bigots..both sides have got ‘em
williebkind
April 1st, 2013
12:25 pm
“Which means, “I wish I was back to a Human”…………”
I wish you were not gay liberal.
Fred ™
April 1st, 2013
12:25 pm
This is a subdued version avoiding the truth and pointing their finger at someone else. Liberals do it so goooood.
You didn’t subdue your lie at all. Women weren’t “attacked” stupid ideas were. Just like I’m not attacking YOU when I say you post stupid crap like this, I’m attacking your IDEAS or lack of them actually.
You are just too goofy.
Isn’t it about time for you to pretend you are working and get off the couch and clean up around your trailer while telling us you have “productive Republican American work to do?”
only in Georgia
April 1st, 2013
12:27 pm
williebkind no problem…
Rev. Billy Graham goes political, backs Mitt Romney
With days to go before Nov. 6, Rev. Billy Graham took his boldest step into politics and threw his support behind Mitt Romney.
In full-page ads and a new website featuring the 93-year-old Graham’s signature and photo, he urges voters to back candidates who oppose abortion and support traditional marriage. Although his “vote biblical values” campaign does not mention candidates by name, it comes shortly after Graham met with Mitt Romney and told the Republican nominee he would “do all I can to help you.”
williebkind
April 1st, 2013
12:27 pm
“Why isn’t anyone concerned about the existing abuse in the HETERO world?!”
Who said it was not? Earned income credit gets a discussion every year. Tax loop holes are brought up too. Why do you have such ill informed selective memory?
Look before I leap...
April 1st, 2013
12:29 pm
Fred and Bro
Had to go downstairs to get the whole package and “special purpose” meaning.
You two need to get a room.
arnold
April 1st, 2013
12:29 pm
How do we grow these people? Better yet, why do we continue to produce these people in quantities?
UNCLE SAMANTHA
April 1st, 2013
12:31 pm
A QUESTION FOR JAY
DO YOU THINK BIGAMY AND POLYGAMY BETWEEN CONSENTING ADULTS SHOULD BE LEGAL?
Sagegirl
April 1st, 2013
12:32 pm
And just think, these people are our neighbors, are in our schools, in our church’s, and apparently sit in our state house. Be afraid Georgian’s. Be very afraid.
FrankLeeDarling
April 1st, 2013
12:32 pm
Well Jay call me a bigot because I will not give up my values and beliefs so a man can put his body part in a t*u*r*d and call it normal.
You mean that thing you do with your head ?
DebbieDoRight - Minister Of Propaganda
April 1st, 2013
12:34 pm
Will He Be Blind — Proposition 8 passed in 2008…………..barely
Yes or no Votes Percentage
Yes check.svg Yes 7,001,084 52.24%
X mark.svg No 6,401,482 47.76%
IMO if it were up for vote today, the outcome AND the turnout would’ve been a whole lot different.
Erwin's cat
April 1st, 2013
12:35 pm
Someone once asked me if I was gonna bring both my wives to the company Christmas party…I said, sure why not?…He said it was mighty bigamy! ….queue the rim shot
John Buck
April 1st, 2013
12:35 pm
OMG…someone disagrees with me…..BIGOT….RACIST….BIGOT RACIST….
Pete
April 1st, 2013
12:36 pm
God, what an idiot! It’s no wonder GA is a backward state with nuts like this running it. Doesn’t she know that heterosexual couples commit fraud? Everything she said could apply to them too. The Bible thumpers will keep our state in the dark ages until a majority of people wake up and do something about it…maybe when people realize that attitudes like this will keep our economy from growing because business and industry will not locate here if we continute to have a 50’s mentatlity.
UNCLE SAMANTHA
April 1st, 2013
12:36 pm
DOES THE STATE AND/OR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAVE THE RIGHT TO DEFINE MARRIAGE?
IF IT IS ABOUT EQUAL PROTECTION UNDER THE LAW…….. THEN CONSENTING BIGAMISTS AND POLYGAMISTS SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO MARRY LEGALLY???????
JKL2
April 1st, 2013
12:37 pm
Jay- According to Sue Everhart, chair of the Georgia Republican Party, the push for marriage equality isn’t about equality at all. It’s a massive financial scam.
I’ve been saying that since before they started work on getting rid of Don’t ask, don’t tell.
-That’s the kind of weirdness you get when irrational bigotry tries to rationalize itself.
I guess the truth would seem like a strange notion to you Jay. Talk the benefit provisions out of gay marriage an that topic would drop like a rock.
ansbach
April 1st, 2013
12:38 pm
So is she stating that only homosexuals would commit this type of fraud? That heterosexual people would not try this? Does that mean one group is more or less ethical??/ Sheeesh
Logical Dude
April 1st, 2013
12:38 pm
What some of us are trying to show you [bigots] is that if you claim that fraud will occur, and thus marriages should not happen between homosexual couples, then that means that since FRAUD ALREADY OCCURS WITH HETEROSEXUAL COUPLES, THEN HETEROSEXUALS SHOULD NOT GET MARRIED.
Do you see now why this is a stupid argument?
Look before I leap...
April 1st, 2013
12:39 pm
I wonder how long it will be before TYPES IN ALL CAPS brings out the goat argument.
DebbieDoRight - Minister Of Propaganda
April 1st, 2013
12:39 pm
I wish you were not gay liberal.
I wish you had a brain………….
only in Georgia
April 1st, 2013
12:39 pm
Billy Graham Faces Backlash Over Mormon ‘Cult’ Removal
(RNS) The Rev. Samuel Wynn admired Billy Graham and his evangelistic association for decades, joining its spiritual crusades and urging fellow Christians to do the same. But no more.
“I will never again support anything by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association,” said Wynn, the superintendent of a United Methodist Church district in Fayetteville, N.C.
The source of Wynn’s ire: The BGEA’s recent removal of language on its website calling Mormonism a “cult.”
The scrubbing followed GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s pilgrimage to Billy Graham’s mountaintop home in Montreat, N.C. After the Oct. 11 meeting, Graham pledged to “do all I can to help” Romney, according to a campaign aide.
The BGEA said it cut the “cult” language “because we do not wish to participate in a theological debate about something that has become politicized during this campaign.”
But Wynn and other conservative Christians accuse Graham of putting partisanship above piety and risking Christian souls to help Romney, a Mormon, win the White House.