Dude, the first Republican who announced he was running for president had a crowd that was mandated to be there or face a fine. Why do we continue to be surprised about how backwards these people are?
Huckabee: Gay-Rights Movement 'Won't Stop Until There Are No Churches' http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/mike-huckabee-gay-no-churches
It sucks, because I think I really want to identify (at least in part) as conservative, but the majority of republican beliefs just have so many negative qualities. I can't take the bad, as it outweighs the "good" things I do agree with.
in a way i feel like that also. i don't understand how people can support this party when they feel like this about certain things. seriously what the hell is mike huckB even talking about?? strawman arguments to the point that it has to be exhausting. just give gay people the same rights as everyone else and move on. that point you can worry about something else that is ruining the world because it certainly is not gay people.
It's worth quoting what the clown said, Dubious. A nice, if depressing, find. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) said on Wednesday that gay-rights activists wouldn't be satisfied until there are no more churches or Christians in America. “It won’t stop until there are no more churches, until there are no more people who are spreading the Gospel,” Huckabee said on a right-wing radio program while discussing the backlash against anti-gay religious-freedom legislation in Arkansas and Indiana. "I’m talking now about the unabridged, unapologetic Gospel that is really God’s truth," he said. Huckabee made the remarks during an appearance on the conservative Family Research Council radio program “Washington Watch with Tony Perkins." Earlier in the program, he accused critics of the legislation of engaging in "true discrimination" and seizing on a "manufactured" crisis. http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/mike-huckabee-gay-no-churches It sickens me to read this crap. And they call themselves Americans. Wrapped in the flag and babbling inanely about "freedom," as long as it is freedom on their terms, which is no freedom at all, in my humble opinion.
Well, at least now they are fighting themselves. http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/idaho-sharia-law-fear GOPers Put Idaho At Risk Of Losing $46 Million Over Fear Of Creeping Sharia Law BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho officials face a looming deadline to maintain tens of millions of dollars in funding after a bill that would have brought the state into compliance with federal rules was killed when conservative legislators said it would have subjected the state to fundamentalist Islamic law. The state Health Department said Monday that without a revision in the next two months they stand to lose access to programs that process child support payments and track down scofflaws in addition to $46 million in federal payouts. The conflict started last week after a House committee narrowly rejected a bill that had sailed through the Senate after some lawmakers said it would have required Idaho to uphold Sharia law — a contention others said was baseless. State Sen. Sheryl Nuxoll, a Republican from the small northern community of Cottonwood, raised the objection during the House Judiciary and Rules Committee hearing. She testified that the federal law Idaho was adjusting to incorporated provisions of an international agreement regarding cross-border recovery of child-support payments, the Hague Convention on International Recovery of Child Support and Family Maintenance. None of the nearly 80 countries involved in the treaty — which the U.S. entered in 2007 — are under Sharia law. But Nuxoll and other skeptics said their concerns were valid because some nations in treaty informally recognize such courts. They added that the provisions of the deal wouldn't leave Idaho with the authority to challenge another nation's judgment, particularly if it were under hard-line Islamic law. The criticisms tapped into the conservative, and often isolationist, sentiment that can pop up in Idaho's Republican-controlled Statehouse, where lawmakers frequently balk at federal mandates. Rep. Luke Malek, a Coeur d'Alene Republican, however, called the debate an example of "heavy-handed opportunistic theatrics at the expense of single-parents and children." He and others said the bill's opponents don't represent Idaho's GOP caucus. The Rules Committee voted 9-8 to nix the compliance bill and the legislative session adjourned hours later, throwing the funding into question. Since the issue affects the state budget, lawmakers could be called into a special session to revisit the matter. The governor's office released a statement Monday, saying officials were "analyzing the impacts of the committee's actions and what they mean for the 400,000 people who depend on Idaho's system." The state Attorney General's Office has said compliance wouldn't interfere with Idaho's rights as a state. Gov. Butch Otter and Attorney General Lawrence Wasden both are Republicans. Idaho Health and Welfare Department officials plan to meet with U.S. Health and Human Services representatives this week. They expect to have 60 days to address the matter from that point. "This is a new experience for Idaho," the department said in a statement Monday. "We have been told the federal support for Idaho's Child Support Program will end if Idaho is not in compliance." Without federal tools, parents who are owed child-support payments will have no means to receive them. Idaho uses federal programs to process in-state and out-of-state child support payments. About 80 percent of payments are garnisheed from paychecks, but noncompliance would prevent Idaho from making such collections.
I read that article about Idaho yesterday. I think I'm more amazed at how amazed I can be at just how f***ing stupid some people can be. There is nothing about what those people in Idaho are doing can't be described as just plain moronic.
He's right, they're seizing on a crisis that was manufactured by bigots. Similar to the hand-wringing about Sharia Law creeping into Ida****ingho.
Damn! Foiled again! Rep. Steve King: Obama Is Importing Millions Of 'Undocumented Democrats' Rep. Steve King (R-IA) during a radio interview Thursday on “The John Fredericks Show” accused President Obama of importing “undocumented Democrats” and essentially buying votes.
They don't care if the facts support their contentions. Fox has told his constituents that undocumented immigrants not only can, but DO vote, so King can make these kinds of statements and the sheep just nod along.
Poor lost soul's dying request. North Carolina man's obituary: 'Do not vote for Hillary Clinton in 2016' (CNN) Larry Upright died just one day after Hillary Clinton announced she was running for president. And in his obituary, his family made just two requests: please donate to a children's hospital, and please don't vote for Clinton. Upright, a staunch Republican, died Monday at a North Carolina hospital. He was 81. "In lieu of flowers, memorials may be sent to Shriners Hospital for Children," his obituary reads. "Also, the family respectfully asks that you do not vote for Hillary Clinton in 2016. R.I.P. Grandaddy."
Michelle Bachmann, the gift that keeps on giving. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/20/michele-bachmann-obama-rapture_n_7104136.html Michele Bachmann: The Rapture Is Coming And It's Obama's Fault Michele Bachmann says the rapture is coming, thanks to President Barack Obama’s policies on Iran’s nuclear program and marriage equality. In a radio interview last week, Bachmann, the former Minnesota Republican congresswoman, told "End Times" host Jan Markell, “We need to realize how close this clock is getting to the midnight hour.” “We in our lifetimes potentially could see Jesus Christ returning to earth and the rapture of the church,” Bachmann said. “We see the destruction, but this was a destruction that was foretold.” Bachmann cited the Obama administration’s nuclear negotiations with Iran as a cause. The U.S. and five partner nations are discussing a deal with Iran that would prevent the country from developing or obtaining nuclear weapons. “We are literally watching, month by month, the speed move up to a level we’ve never seen before with these events," Bachmann said. "Barack Obama is intent. It is his number one goal to ensure that Iran has a nuclear weapon.” Later in the interview, Bachmann again tied her rapture prediction to Obama’s foreign policy. “If you look at the president’s rhetoric, and if you look at his actions, everything he has done has been to cut the legs out of Israel and lift up the agenda of radical Islam,” she said. Obama has said repeatedly that the goal of the nuclear talks with Iran is to prevent the country from developing a nuclear weapon. Bachmann also blamed abortion and gay marriage, arguing that God is punishing the United States for “embracing a pagan view.” “Any nation that accepts God and his principles is blessed, and those who push away are cursed. That’s what we’re seeing happen to the United States,” she said. “We will suffer the consequences as a result.” Some Christians believe those who are saved will be transported to heaven just before armageddon, which they call the rapture. This is not the first time Bachmann has predicted extreme consequences from the Iran deal. Earlier this month, she claimed the deal would lead to "World War III." And in a Facebook post, she compared Obama to Andreas Lubitz, the pilot who crashed the Germanwings airliner into the French Alps in March.
Um, why does Michelle Bachman not want to meet Jesus? Wouldn't this be a good thing for those who believe in the rapture?
