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Thursday, August 4, 2011

2012 / LGBTQITSLFA Republican Presidential Candidates Bravely Team Up to Battle Bullying Against Bigots

Posted by Paul Constant on Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 4:01 PM

Right Wing Watch (via Slog tipper Matt) says three Republican presidential candidates have signed a pledge that stands against the bullying that "supporters" of "traditional marriage" have had to endure, the poor dears:

In kicking off the event, NOM has announced that Santorum, Bachmann, and Mitt Romney have all signed a five-point "Marriage Pledge" [PDF] that includes a promise to establish a "presidential commission" to "investigate harassment of traditional marriage supporters"

In full, the candidates have agreed to...

...establish a presidential commission on religious liberty to investigate and document reports of Americans who have been harassed or threatened for exercising key civil rights to organize, to speak, to donate or to vote for marriage and to propose new protections, if needed.

Well, of course. Gay people simply don't understand what it's like to be bullied. Do you know that the climate has gotten so toxic that people actually want to know if you donated to bigoted causes? Like that's supposed to be public information or something? Who do they think they are? If you want to give a lot of money to a cause that you're not even brave enough to put your name to, that's your Constitutional right!

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Oh yeah, Teabaggers, the GOP's got your back. You may not have a job or any equity in your house, but by God if a gay needs bashing, they've got your back.

Posted by Prettybetsy on August 4, 2011 at 4:06 PM

The pledge also includes defending DOMA and supporting a constitutional amendment defining marriage. Do a little of your own work next time.

Posted by Edmund Burke on August 4, 2011 at 4:10 PM

If only Johnson had created a presidential commission to investigate all the bullying the segregationists endured.
Poor, wittle things.

Posted by Cui Bono on August 4, 2011 at 4:34 PM

I wonder if this will lead to glittering being made a level-one felony.

Posted by David Schmader on August 4, 2011 at 4:39 PM

The other day at the beach I was holding this dudes head under that water because, well, you know, it's a FAMILY beach, and he was there with his FRIENDS. NOT THE SAME THING.

Anyways, so he's all splashing about, flailing his arms, making a total SCENE about not being able to get air, so all these people gather round and started bullying me, all "Let him go! Stop it! He can't breath asshole!" until one of them finally pulled me off him. Can you believe it? Who is going to stand up for people like me?

Posted by Dougsf on August 4, 2011 at 4:42 PM

Conservatism is nothing without paranoia, projection, and victimization. We see evidence of that every time one of them posts here on Slog, or on any conservative media program. That's why it appeals to the dim-witted.

Posted by Catalina Vel-DuRay

on August 4, 2011 at 5:28 PM

How do they keep turning out these evil pledges? Oy vei.

Posted by samktg on August 4, 2011 at 6:54 PM

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/30/books/…
Reconstruction Era whites in the South used this same tactic while terrorizing the newly freed slave population and those who would help them. Listen to any GOP blow hard with a radio show or Fox News program blame their ills on the "liberal media" and you see this is a tried and true conservative tactic.

Posted by TORMATO on August 5, 2011 at 4:14 AM