Comedian Jon Stewart slammed Republican senators Thursday after they blocked the passage of a bill that would expand health care coverage for veterans exposed to burn pits and other toxins during their service. Francis Maxwell reports.
A brilliant ad released by the Mothers Against Greg Abbott clearly shows the emotional and traumatizing experience women go through while trying to access reproductive care in states with abortion bans and trigger laws. The doctor in the ad says only one man can make the decision for a woman to have a medically induced abortion, and that man just happens to be Gregg Abbott, the governor of Texas. Ana Kasparian and Farron Cousins discuss on The Young Turks.
This insufferable bastard! Hey my son is gay and found someone to marry, he can have marriage equality, but not your son or daughter they don’t have that right. My daughter needs an abortion, she can have one but not you or yours, they don’t have that right. If it is good for his son, and he is as happy for his son as he claims, vote for the law to protect it nationwide. Hugs
“First of all, obviously, we hope right from the beginning, it’s all about having a healthy child. But it’s about being healthy. It’s about them being healthy. We hope for safety. We’re hoping that they find their way, find opportunity, they find inspiration.
“And as they grow and as they get a little older, we also hope and pray they’re going to find that one true love so that they have the opportunity to experience that: Someone to grow old with.
“So we’re just really thankful that you’re here. It actually goes beyond that, as parents. We love it when they find their one true love, especially when they become a part of our families then. That’s what we’re rooting for.
“We’ve been fortunate with three sons, and [REDACTED]’s done a great job of adding to the family. Every kid showed up through cesarean section so it wasn’t all pleasant, right! So this has been a really good experience, especially for Penny, to have a new son enter the family!
“So we’re just blessed, and we just want to say thank you to everyone here as part of the celebration.” – GOP Rep. Glenn Thompson, speaking at the wedding of his gay son after voting against codifying same-sex marriage.
There’s audio of the speech at the link.
Listen to the speech a Republican lawmaker gave at his gay son's wedding days after voting against marriage equality. https://t.co/csFT9wYu4w
Lauren Boebert is opposed to marriage equality and agreed with Charlie Kirk that opposing “homosexual marriage” could be “a signal boost” for Republican candidates “if handled correctly.” pic.twitter.com/MTkfDsnYDz
Boebert slammed the legislation as an “assault on America’s traditional values” on Kirk’s podcast.
“I think the federal government should not be involved in marriage,” she said. “My marriage between my husband is really between me and God, not between me and the government. But this was absolutely unnecessary. They have attacked our institutions. They have weakened the nuclear family and undermined masculinity and even femininity.”
She went on to say that the Republicans who voted in favor of the legislation—including Rep. Elise Stefanik, the No. 3 House Republican, and Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney—did so because they wanted to avoid a political backlash.
Newsweek has contacted Boebert’s office and House Republicans, including representatives for Stefanik and Cheney, for further comment.
“They are absolutely afraid of attack ads,” Boebert said of the Republicans who voted in favor. “That always is the conversation that is taking place on the House floor.”
She continued: “This happens on a regular basis, whether it be infrastructure, whether it be funding whether it be sending more money to Ukraine… but they do not want the political attacks to come against them. And Charlie, I arrived in Washington D.C. on attack ads, so I’m not really afraid of another one.”
Kirk then seemed to suggest that opposing same-sex marriage “could be a signal boost if you handle it correctly.”
“Absolutely,” Boebert responded.
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) speaks during the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit held at the Tampa Convention Center on July 23, 2022 in Tampa, Florida. Boebert has said the same-sex marriage bill that passed the House “undermined masculinity.”JOE RAEDLE/GETTY IMAGES
“Look at the people who are fleeing the Democrat Party and coming over to the Republican Party,” she said.
“The only way we lose the midterms this November is if we start acting like Democrats, so we have to be firm we have to stand tall and and remain true to our principles. That is what keeps our base with us and is what is attracting Democrats to come to our party.”
The Respect for Marriage Act has bipartisan sponsorship, with Republican Senator Susan Collins serving as a co-sponsor. Republican Senator Rob Portman also recently announced he would co-sponsor the Respect for Marriage Act. Other Republican senators have also said they would vote for the bill—or were still considering it— NBC News reported.
In the Senate, which is evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans, 60 votes are required to end unlimited debate and bring legislation to a vote. Though legislation only requires a simple majority to pass the Senate, lawmakers can use the unlimited debate tradition, called a filibuster, to indefinitely delay a vote on legislation.
FFS. I spent over a decade beating back these stupid arguments. I thought with Obergfell it was over. Now we have to deal with this crap all over again.
Sorry dearie, but God has nothing to do with your marriage. Marriage is a legal contract between two people — and, while many religions enjoy services which proclaim the marriage, those services are not legal, nor necessary to be married – at least in the USA. So it’s about time you read up on the actual law in the matter, for the law is the only thing that counts in this country.
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.
Christians Cannot and Must Not Support Same-Sex Marriage.
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.
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.
>>> 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?
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.
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.
Today we’re going to talk about the Gender Critical movement, why their views on science and social issues are wrong, and what the real problems are that we should all be concerned about. Spoiler alert, violent hate crimes and discrimination are more important than guessing people’s chromosomes.
A group of Texas Republican legislators sent a letter to one of the biggest law firms in the U.S. threatening the company and its lawyers with disbarment and prosecution if they facilitate abortions, even outside of Texas, according to a report. The letter says the 11 members of the Texas Freedom Caucus have become aware of Sidley Austin “reimbursing travel costs of employees who leave Texas to murder their unborn children.”
Rep. Mayes Middleton, the Chair of the Caucus who signed the letter, warns Sidley Austin abortion is a felony in Texas unless the mother’s life is in danger. Middleton notes the law covers “drug-induced abortions if any part of the drug regimen is ingested in Texas, even if the drugs were dispensed by an out-of-state abortionist.” Middleton threatens, if Sidley Austin violates the law, the firm and all of the partners will be subject to criminal prosecution and disbarment.
A group of Texas Republican legislators sent a letter to one of the biggest law firms in the U.S. threatening the company and its lawyers with disbarment and prosecution if they facilitate abortions, even outside of Texas.https://t.co/KCKJnwULNj
Given that the vast majority of Americans are in favor of abortion rights, abortion rights need to be a “front and center” issue in Democratic campaign ads leading up to the November elections.
Are you a woman? Are you going to vote for a political party that doesn’t trust you with regard to your personal decisions? A party that doesn’t want you to have freedom to control what you do with your body?
And the anti-Semitic/fascist fringe has gone all in for Mastriano. One of his major consultants is Gab CEO Andrew Torba, who stated that non-Christians are not welcome in their campaign, and even stated that right-wing Jewish commentators like Ben Shapiro and Dave Rubin are not welcome “unless you repent and renounce your Jewish faith”. Gab is a neo-Nazi site which helped inspire the Tree of Life mass shooting in Pittsburgh.
I appreciate your optimism, Ross. Wish I could share in it but I’m not quite there. Perhaps the Roe decision will in fact help the Democrats in November. Perhaps.
I’m pinning my hopes on some sort of mega-bombshell coming out of the 1/6 Committee. Something really really big that totally occupies the airwaves and sends the Rethugs running.
Imo something like that is our best hope of preventing the seditionists from winning back control of the House.
But it may not matter. SCOTUS looks likely to allow states to throw out election results they don’t like without having to prove fraud or whatever BS excuse they are using. Just a vote in the legislature would be enough. That on top of voter suppression efforts (we ain’t seen nothin’ yet!) will mean that the majority’s opinion doesn’t matter.
Its all about creative semantics. Oh, that money is not for an abortion, its for the excellent work that she does for the firm. She has the best penmanship that we have ever seen. In fact, we are sending her to our Chicago office for 3 months to show them how pretty she can write.
They can say “Due to HIPPA laws, we are not allowed to ask why our employees had medication or medial procedures. Also, due to HIPPA laws, you can’t ask a woman or her out-of-state doctor what medical procedures were done [legally] out of state.
I heard someone comment that women at these type of white-collar companies won’t really use this benefit, because they don’t really want to let their employer know they had an abortion. It’s really lower-income people who need the benefit. But is a nice benefit to offer to signal employees that they support their rights.
“We decided she could really use a nice long weekend retreat” – hell, the gop has tons of vague phrases they’ve used for decades to get abortions for mistresses without admitting to it, I’m sure there’s a cheat sheet that can be copied…
Rachel Maddow looks at the racist, antisemitic roots of “Christian nationalism” as advocated by American politician Gerald L.K. Smith in the 1950s, and the renewed embrace of the tenets of that disgraced movement by supporters of Donald Trump like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Republican candidate for Pennsylvania governor Doug Mastriano.
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