Keep Speaking Rick
You have to hand it to the Republicans – they simply have no idea how to filter their insanity – and NONE of them have learned from George “Macaca” Allen – that everything you say stays alive forever. Since most of the Republicans and Teahadists in public office think we are still living in the age of the chastity belt – expounding views that make 80% of the country cringe is becoming common place. Hard to say which of the current crop of inmates disguised as Presidential candidates spews the most offensive bile – but based on the past week it is fast becoming the frothy one – Rick Santorum. From Think Progress – Mr Santorum seems to think daddies or mommies in prison are preferable to two daddies or two mommies.
For the second time in as many days, Rick Santorum waded into the issue of gay marriage, suggesting it was so important for children to have both a father and mother that an imprisoned father was preferable to a same-sex parent. Citing the work of one [unnamed]anti-poverty expert, Santorum said, “He found that even fathers in jail who had abandoned their kids were still better than no father at all to have in their children’s lives.”
Allowing gays to marry and raise children, Santorum said, amounts to “robbing children of something they need, they deserve, they have a right to. You may rationalize that that isn’t true, but in your own life and in your own heart, you know it’s true.” [...] The students at Dublin School, which runs from ninth through 12th grade, were primed for Santorum’s visit, said headmaster Brad Bates. He said three students in the audience had gay parents, though they were not among those who asked about the topic.
Who knew that during World Ware II, all the non-Jewish kids whose parents were shipped off to Dachau or Auschwitz for being Roma or Communists or Slavic or Jesuits or Gay or some other unacceptable were actually better off! (Jewish kids were lucky – they got to stay with Mommy and Daddy as they were all shipped to Auschwitz).
I will not stop saying this – these GOP/Teahadists speak of and extol policies that are leading this country down the same highway as 1930′s Germany
I will not stop saying this – these GOP/Teahadists speak of and extol policies that are leading this country down the same highway as 1930′s Germany
I don’t disagree, Axel.
But our biggest problem is that our alleged opposition party, the Democrats, is happily going along for the ride in exchange for a cut of the proceeds from the plutocrats funding the entire crappy adventure ride.
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They are fascists, indeed…nodoubt about it.
Harsh words but true. And we haven’t got a chance of confronting this reality until we’re willing to speak plainly about it. Thanks for having the courage to do just that.