Republican national platform 'respectfully' tells gay Americans they aren't getting squat

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Republican national platform 'respectfully' tells gay Americans they aren't getting squat

by Hunter

Well, that didn't take long. The Log Cabin Republicans may be glad to get a sentence in the Republican platform suggesting that all Americans be treated with "respect and dignity," but that's all they're getting. The rest of the document will be an homage to how to respectfully tell the LGBT community that they don't have true American values and need to just shut up already. As noteworthy hate figure Tony Perkins, who for some reason is still perfectly welcome in Republican circles despite that whole "dignity" thing, says:

Family Research Council president Tony Perkins told BuzzFeed: “You should read the entire plank on marriage, which I wrote. I feel very happy about it. I feel pretty optimistic about the outcome here.”

When you've outsourced your marriage policy stance to Tony Effing Perkins, I'm not thinking there's going to be a lot of "respect and dignity" involved. I guess the "respect" part means they don't call for imprisoning gay people, just for an all-out reversal of whatever rights they may have gained in the last decades. From the draft document:

A serious threat to our country's constitutional order, perhaps even more dangerous than presidential malfeasance, is an activist judiciary, in which some judges usurp the powers reserved to other branches of government. A blatant example has been the court-ordered redefinition of marriage in several States. This is more than a matter of warring legal concepts and ideals. It is an assault on the foundations of our society, challenging the institution which, for thousands of years in virtually every civilization, has been entrusted with the rearing of children and the transmission of cultural values. <...>

We oppose the Administration's open defiance of this constitutional principle—in its handling of immigration cases, in federal personnel benefits, in allowing a same-sex marriage at a military base, and in refusing to defend DOMA in the courts—makes a mockery of the President's inaugural oath.

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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/20/1122312/-Republican-national-platform-respectfully-tells-gay-Americans-they-aren-t-getting-squat

Group Of Psychos in full effect. Tony Perkins is the Republican Party.

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1. Kick for

Tony's GOP.

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2. I am actually surprised that the Repigs

didn't just say "Back into the closet, homos, and STFU." That's what these bigoted asshats actually believe. Own it, you pathetic reichwing freaks.