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Let’s talk about military recruitment problems….
FRC: The GOP Is Selling Out Evangelicals On Marriage
Another one who thinks his religion’s doctrines should be the laws of the country. We are not a theocracy yet. He doesn’t get to set the definitions of marriage for others. I am so sick of these religious fanatics. Notice he claims the court was activist when they grant rights but not activist when they remove them, like ending Roe. Hugs
Via email from hate group leader Tony Perkins:
Never underestimate the Republican Party’s ability to self-destruct. That’s the one thing years of cultural battles have taught everyone.
Heading into November with the elections on a silver platter, the men and women who rebranded themselves as the forces of anti-wokeness have suddenly gone soft on an issue that should be a political no-brainer: marriage.
After seven years of letting the court take the heat for redefining history’s oldest institution, a surprising number of Republicans are making a fatal mistake — believing they can win back Congress by sounding just as radical as the party set to lose it.
If the GOP’s defectors are making a political calculus, it’s a terrible one. Conservatives who abandon marriage are only endearing themselves to two sets of people: radical Democrats who would never vote for them anyway, and moderates from both parties who wouldn’t make marriage the deciding factor of any vote.
Who they stand to lose, on the other hand, is far more significant this November. Not only do they risk suppressing their evangelical base, but also other Americans who: a) see same-sex marriage as the gateway drug to all of the transgender, LGBT, sex-ed chaos we’re experiencing in society; b) don’t believe an activist court should usurp the democratic process; and; c) disgruntled Democrats who thought the Republican Party would be the counterweight to the Left’s extremism.
They slobbered over a thrice married adulterer among others so fuck off about how marriage is sacred.
Ščŏŧŧ Ċ – 🇺🇦 🕊 Ninja0980 • 31 minutes ago
Yes, Marriage is sacred, and Melanoma was the classiest first lady the country ever had.
Marriage doesn’t belong to evangelicals, Tony. If you don’t support or agree with same-sex marriage, that’s your prerogative. But understand this — your chosen religious beliefs don’t give you the right to tell me that my 33+ year relationship to my husband isn’t as important as yours, or shouldn’t be allowed.
Why should the fucking evangelicals get to decide who gets to be married.
I just looked this up on Pew research.
22.5% consider themselves to be evangelical. That is the same percentage as the Nones/No religion.
Unfortunately, the Nones don’t have a wealthy powerful (and noisy) organization to back them up. And if they did, they would not be Nones anymore.
On NPR I just heard some ignorant asshole’s voicemail comment that he didn’t think there needed to be any federal legislation to protect same sex marriage because you didn’t need to go to a church to get married.
Perhaps he wasn’t a dumbfuck but rather an evil bastard who was trying to throw some false shit out there to try to hold back support for the vote by giving idiots some dumb excuse not to support it.
heleninedinburgh • 33 minutes ago • edited
An activist court is usurping the democratic process.
Surprised to see him complaining about Thomas, Coney Barrett et al.
ChrisInKansas • 32 minutes ago
>>> Not only do they risk suppressing their evangelical base, but also other Americans who: a) see same-sex marriage as the gateway drug to all of the transgender, LGBT, sex-ed chaos we’re experiencing in society;
What the FUCK does this mean??? Gateway drug? Do they think we get married before the whole gay thing kicks in?
He still believes God is going to give the Republicans a landslide in 2022, boy, is he going to be surprised.
S_E_P David Snyder • 30 minutes ago
If they eek out a meagre win after all the roadblocks and tricks they put up to rig the vote……theyll still call it a mandate.
Uncle Mark eats the rainbow • 23 minutes ago • edited
According to the 2020 US Census, only 23% of Americans are Evangelical. Why should 77% of Americans be subjected to their cult, their rules, & their gawd? Furthermore, they lost all moral authority when they made the very epitome of their anti-Christ their new orange messiah.
They can go burn with their loser conman.
“I’m glad you like a book…”
Americans who “b) don’t believe an activist court should usurp the democratic process,” Tony? You mean like the Supreme Court did with Dobbs? But I thought you liked that one.
The Gender Critical Movement has it all wrong
Let’s talk about how Trump already lost a governorship in Maryland….
Christian Nationalism’s Racist Past Precludes Revival Except Among GOP’s Trumpiest
Shapiro Host: No Such Thing As Same-Sex Marriage
This is what we face. Right wing media simply claims same sex marriages cannot be a thing, and it goes along with red states use don’t say gay laws. They want to erase the public acceptance LGBTQ+ people have worked hard to get. As I said before marriage is a legal contract between people and confers state and federal legal benefits. What words mean changes over time and can be broadened when needed. Marriage is not owned by religion. Why do these people work so hard to destroy the rights of the LGBTQ+ that doesn’t affect them in anyway? They are kids crossing their arms and stomping their feet saying they don’t like it. Hugs
“What I suspect it is is that Marco Rubio doesn’t think that gay marriage is real. I think Marco Rubio believes that marriage is between a man and a woman and that there is no such thing as same-sex marriage.
“It’s just that Pete Buttigieg isn’t really married. And it’s hard — I know it’s hard to say that in our politically correct culture. But it’s not because two guys can’t be married to each other.
“Marriage is the union of a man to his wife. A perpetual union of a man to his wife for the sake of the generation and the education of children. That’s what it is. And that’s not possible between two men and two women.
“Marriage essentially has sexual difference at the heart of it. And so, if we call things that don’t have that marriage, we don’t expand marriage, we just get rid of marriage.
“If Pete Buttigieg and Chasten can be married, then marriage has no concrete meaning.” – Daily Wire host Michael Knowles, who also co-hosts Ted Cruz’s podcast.
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BeccaM • 16 hours ago • edited
The “founders” would’ve been shocked that we did away with slavery, after going to war over it.
They would’ve been shocked to learn women were granted the right to vote, along with non-white men.
They’d have been shocked to discover we now not only had a permanent standing army, but it receives the lion’s share of the discretionary federal budget.
They’d have been shocked to find out we have rifles which can fire dozens of rounds a minute and are capable of literally shredding the human body. (And that we did not ban them for civilian possession and use.)
And they would have been completely flabbergasted to hear that we had an unfit and manifestly unqualified criminal President who launched a violent coup and threatened the lives of his Vice President and members of Congress so he could stay in power after losing his reelection—and we didn’t immediately arrest and imprison the treasonous, seditious motherfucker.
Joe in NM BeccaM • 16 hours ago
And they would be shocked to learn that a major party wants “religion” as a central theme.
ECarpenter Joe in NM • 13 hours ago
They would be shocked that there is a de facto two party system – they explicitly didn’t want political parties to form.
SilentMike BeccaM • 16 hours ago • edited
… and inter-racial marriage also comes immediately to mind as something they’d be shocked by.
They made the same stupid arguments during the marriage wars.
Houndentenor BensNewLogin • 16 hours ago
And they never stopped believing those things. Did people think that just because they lost in Windsor and Obergefell that they would just give up and quit. They didn’t give up on overturning Roe and they won’t give up on overturning gay marriage either. They never give up. It’s the lesson the left never seems to learn. You don’t win your rights and then you can stop fighting. You win your rights and you have to keep fighting for them so long as there’s any opposition and at least in my lifetime there always will be.
K Elmquist BensNewLogin • 16 hours ago
I’m surprised he didn’t mention marriage was divinely inspired. As well, using his argument that marriage is for the procreation of children would mean that all those married heterosexual couples that either can’t or have chosen not to have children aren’t married either.
Brian Penicook BensNewLogin • 16 hours ago
So straight marriages that have no kids are not real either. I want to punch this guy. I’m pretty sure that’s not the right thing. Don’t like the second class, third rate status we enjoy.
ErnestMc BensNewLogin • 16 hours ago
Yes, those of us who have been involved with the marriage-equality fight have heard all these idiotic arguments 1000 times (and they’ve been shot down 1000 times), yet the bigots always think they’re the first to come up with them.
Randy503 BensNewLogin • 14 hours ago
I still argue with people about this. They claim we aren’t “really” married. I say, it doens’t matter what you think — we are LEGALLY married. You don’t have to believe it’s valid, or like it, or approve of it. And if we are not REALLY married, then why are you trying so hard to ban something that doenst’ exist? That always stumps them.
Marriage is what the state says. Windsor proved the IRS and DOMA could not override state laws about inheritance. Obergefell expanded on this to say that if DOMA could not restrict the IRS, then “full faith and credit” required states to respect same-sex marriages, which should thus be available everywhere.
No religious leader informally deputized to act as an officiant or witness to legal marriages is required to marry people he or she does not want to marry.
House Reps To Get $10K Each For Home Security
What the fuck? Can I get $10,000 for securing my home also? Especially since the republicans are enraging their cult like base to hate the LGBTQ+. Most of them are wealthy, some are very wealthy. Most of them live in gated walled compounds with private security. They have a private police force at work, but the public wonders if they will face a mass shooter at their job. They couldn’t raise minimum wage for the workers, they couldn’t pass bills to lower the public’s costs for medications, they could help the people at all, but they can give themselves more money every time. I am tired of the congress we have where they have disdain for the public they are supposed to be working for and yet think they are above all others. Hugs
The Washington Examiner reports:
House Sergeant at Arms William Walker plans to offer lawmakers thousands of dollars to safeguard their homes at a time when a growing number of members have received threats.
Congressional members and staff were sent a letter announcing the residential security program, an initiative that will pay for up to $10,000 worth of expenses for security equipment such as cameras, video recorders, door locks, and motion sensors at representative’s personal residences.
The program is set to begin on Aug. 15 and will also cover fixed-rate monthly monitoring and maintenance fees up to $150 a month for members.
Read the full article.
SkokieDaddy – wiener dog dad • an hour ago
Drag queens that are targeted by these same members of Congress will receive what?
Longpole SkokieDaddy – wiener dog dad • an hour ago
They’re expendable,
in the minds of the GQP.
Todd20036 Longpole • an hour ago
As are all LBGTs
Melissia Todd20036 • an hour ago
Worse, we’re scapegoats. We ARE the target. Trans people and immigrants have had it the worst, but they were never going to stop there, and anyone who thought they would is a delusional assclown. Our rights, and even our very lives, aren’t safe. Already they’re looking for ways to overturn Lawrence and threaten us with jail unless we closet ourselves again.
Meanwhile the average person is told to either place trust in the police, or buy a gun .
Melissia Melissia • an hour ago
Man it sure upset someone when people point out that congress is doing little to nothing to protect the average person but spending a great deal of money to protect thesmelves.
The only threats that insurrectionist congressional traitors would ever face is from their own cult.
Right… Now we have to weat kevlar vests, bullet proof back packs and install safety glass in our windows instead of arresting threat makers or making firearms illegal.
It’s our own personal arms race.
What’s amusing is most MAGAt congressmen will use the 10 grand for protection, but they’ll say it’s because of those filthy liberals, but really it’ll be because they didn’t tow the line 100% for trump
Hey, I’m surrounded by redneck RW’s. I feel threatened. Where’s my $10,000?
