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OK, so it’s not news that politicians are hypocrites. But, my goodness. This just takes the hypocritical cake. As reported by PageOneQ.com, two infamous senators have signed on to the bill of Mississippi Republican Sen. Roger Wicker to establish a constitutional amendment codifying marriage as between a man and a woman. You probably only need two guesses as to which two senators announced they were co-sponsoring the bill today — David “John” Vitter and Larry “Wide Stance” Craig. The actual wording of the amendment and the status of Vitter and Craig as co-sponsors can be seen here.
I mean, really now. How much further down the rabbit hole can we go? A man who pleaded guilty to lewd conduct in propositioning an undercover police officer for anonymous sex in a bathroom, and a man who allegedly has a diaper fetish exerting their moral authority over the rest of us. How can it have come to this? Sure, we know that the moral high ground was ceded by the far right a long time ago. It all depends just how far back you want to go. The list of disgraced fundamentalist zealots reads like a Who’s Who of giddy peccadilloes: Jimmy Swaggart, Jim Bakker, Ted Haggard and on and on. But, generally speaking, once they’ve been outed as self-loathing perverts, they try not to come down on the rest of us anymore.
Perhaps we should send a message to Vitter and Craig, because obviously, it hasn’t hit them yet: You. Do. Not. Get. To. Tell. Us. How. To. Live. Any. More. You lost the right to moralize about the same time you strapped on a pair of adult diapers and/or opened your stance a little too wide. People who moralize lead first by example. You think Ghandi ever hooked up in a men’s room?
How can people take these clowns seriously?
#20 – Lyin’ Mike
Why would a white guy’s vote on affirmative action be hypocritical?
In this case (Diapers and Wide-Stance), two guys who have spent a good portion of their lives engaging in sexual conduct that most people would consider “unconventional”, and a lot of people would consider perverted, are throwing their support behind “traditional marriage” (like they have any first-hand experience with what the fuck that is), and seeking to criminalize a large number of patriotic, tax-paying Americans.
Can you see why people are laughing at us?
It’s like if Bill Clinton supported a bill providing jail time for anyone who stained up a fat girl’s dress.
The faster we can get these Repuke fucks out of office, the faster we can repair the damage they’ve done.
#19 – I knew if I let you type long enough your hypocrisy would show. It’s not about the privacy of your bedroom (as you dishonestly claim) it’s about forcing others to accept and pay for it.
So, since you want it in the arena of public policy, the public get a say.
#22 – Paddy-O
What if the “public” had a say in giving equal rights (and pay, and benefits) to jigaboos, coons, and bluegums?
I suggest you go back to middle school and take an intro class in civics. Maybe they’ll teach you something about civil rights.
The fact that you’re a bigoted homophobe has no bearing on whether all citizens of America should be afforded the same civil rights as others.
And you never answered the question; do you chafe under the law that says you must give benefits to the darkies, spics, high yellers, inter-racial couples, etc.??
Get with the program, dude. If the Founding Fathers had wanted to ban same-sex marriage, they would have put it in the Constitution. Oh, that’s right; the Constitution GRANTS rights, it does not take them away.
#22, Patrick,
It is starting to appear that you want to be able to discriminate and justify it at the same time. That doesn’t make you a hypocrite. It does mean you’re a bigot though.
If you want to run a business then good for you. You do have to run it within the laws of the land though. And if that means providing health insurance or not discriminating then that applies to you as well. If you don’t like the law then cry to your elected representatives that you want the law changed or hire a lawyer and challenge the law. Or I guess you could disobey the law and run the risk of being fined or jailed.
A white guy who benefited from white privilege now wants to outlaw it.
#25 Lyin’ Mike
>>A white guy who benefited from white privilege
>>now wants to outlaw it.
What the fuck are you talking about? Are you taking rhetoric lessons from Bobbo?
These ass-clown perverts are going to tell me and my partner of 12 years we’re not “morally” fit to be married and we’re damaging marriage? These scum bags (including McCain, Newt and the rest of the ‘dump the old wife for the new younger one’) are going to lecture ME on morality? That’s…amazing. And my friends wonder why even though I’m a basic ‘conservative midwest’ guy I never vote Republican. You don’t get to spit in my eye, call ME a threat to America’s morality while you’re cheating on your wives and then expect my vote. Kiss MY ass.
“How can people take these clowns seriously?”
People take Al Gore and Obama seriously and they’re just as credible as Vitter and Craig.
You mention Gandhi, but Gandhi was an admitted gambler, smoker, meat-eater, and adulterer. He hired a prostitute. No mention of a ‘wide-stance’ but in his later years he was known to sleep with little girls(but without sex we’re told).
He beat his wife while preaching non-violence.
#29 Whoa, with a track record like that was the a drunk too?
Unless you are mental, what other excuse can you use?
So are you guys going to object and put up a blog post if former Klansman Robert Byrd votes on civil rights legislation? Is he sponsoring the Equal Rights Amendment?
I think a lot of conservative leaders still don’t understand that “family values conservatism” has been totally and irrevocably discredited.
>> MikeN said,
>> So are you guys going to object and put up a blog post if former Klansman Robert Byrd votes on civil rights legislation?
If Larry Craig had been gay for about twenty minutes in his youth, your comparison would be valid.
Didn’t these REPUKE UNWASHED RECTUMS promise a BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT and a TERM LIMITS AMENDMENT ??? So, why, when they controlled BOTHT THE CONGRESS AND THE OVAL OFFICE DIDN’T THEY PERFORM ??? Do you think they were LYING ??? And now they whine on and on about an amendment to ban gay marriage ??? Its time to turn these LYING SACKS OF SH*T AND STEAMING TURDS OUT OF OFFICE FOR GOOD !!! ***NEVER VOTE FOR A REPUBLICAN EVER AGAIN*** !!!
#18 Patrick: Not wanting to pay for health benefits or other burdens?!? Ever heard of irony? You do realize, don’t you, that because the state refuses to recognize my male partner and accord him health benefits that he is getting free health care from the state. Wait, not so free. YOUR TAXES pay for his medical checkups, blood tests, medications and any of his other needs up through and including hospital procedures, dental work and eye exams. It would be far LESS expensive for you if he were covered under my plan.
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