Mitt Romney thanks hate group President for his leadership

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Mitt Romney thanks hate group President for his leadership

by Scott Wooledge

Expressing regret that campaign commitments prevented him from attending the Values Voter Summit personally, presidential candidate Mitt Romney thanked the Southern Poverty Law Center-identified hate group, Family Research Council for their leadership, including a specific call-out to president Tony Perkins.

I'd like to thank Tony Perkins and the Family Research Council for their leadership.

Leadership like that time Perkins paid $82,500 to use the phone bank of former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke for an election run-off?

Leadership like explaining to his followers the true nature of all gay people:

“They are intolerant. They are hateful. They are vile. They are spiteful...pawns of the enemy.”

And who can forget Perkins' leadership on the issue of LGBT teen suicide?

(They) “have a higher propensity to depression or suicide because of that internal conflict; homosexuals may recognize intuitively that their same-sex attractions are abnormal.”

Perkins has also called the It Gets Better Project "disgusting."

Perkins' leadership includes comparing gay people to terrorists:

“(B)ack in the 80s and early 90s, I worked with the State Department in anti-terrorism and we trained about 50 different countries in defending against terrorism, and it’s, at its base, what terrorism is, it's a strike against the general populace simply to spread fear and intimidation so that they can disrupt and destabilize the system of government. That's what the homosexuals are doing here to the legal system.”

Romeny also thanks Family Research Council for "bringing all of us together."

Of course, "all of us," does not include LGBT people. Nor does it include women who'd like to make their own reproductive choices. Nor does it include Muslims, atheists or anyone who subscribes to a "whacky, fringe" spiritual belief, including liberal Christianity. (Some Jews are begrudgingly tolerated, so long as they promise to do their part and return to the promise land, enabling the Rapture™.) It also doesn't include liberals, or recent immigrants. Or anyone who loves, supports or has a shred of respect for anyone the aforementioned groups.

But you know, he basically means "all of us in Romney Wingnut land." And like every club Romney joins, it's very exclusive.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/15/1132293/-Mitt-Romney-thanks-hate-group-President-for-his-leadership

The lip smacking makes it even harder to follow the gibberish.

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New NYT/CBS poll shows 5-point increase in marriage equality support in just 2 months

by Chrislove

Yet another poll has shown that a majority of Americans support marriage equality. That a majority is on our side is no longer news. What is news is that this particular poll is showing a five-point increase in Americans' support for marriage equality--in just two months. That's a pretty big frackin' deal.

Just back in July, an NYT/CBS poll found a plurality of Americans in support of marriage equality. 46 percent supported it, while 44 percent were opposed. That's only a two-point spread.

Fast-forward to now. The same NYT/CBS poll is finding 51 percent in favor, bringing the poll into line with other polls finding majority support for marriage equality. And that's not all--add to that the fact that opposition dropped three points to 41 percent. So not only did this poll find that marriage equality support went up five points in a matter of two months, but there's a 10-freakin'-point spread, as opposed to the two-point spread a couple of months ago. Not bad for two months, eh?

Here are all of the numbers from the two NYT/CBS polls:



Sorry, NOM, FRC, and AFA--looks like your tactics couldn't be failing more miserably. It must really suck to put everything you have into drumming up hate against gays and lesbians, only to see something like this.

They can kick and scream and holler until the cows come home, but the opposition to LGBT equality is eroding like never before. What this poll shows more than anything, perhaps, is what we've already known from other polls and from experience on the ground--the anti-gay right is now a minority and looks to be staying that way. Get used to it, haters. There's lots more disappointment where this came from.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/15/1132288/-New-NYT-CBS-poll-shows-5-point-increase-in-marriage-equality-support-in-just-2-months

Right-wing message FAIL!






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[Angry Dragon]

1. Hi!, My name is Willard and I am a vile person ...... please vote for me

[ProSense]

4. Serioulsy,

what's with the lip smacking? He's vile and gross.

[louis c]

2. I Wonder What Richard Tisei WouldTthink?

Richard Tisei is an openly gay republican who gave up a safe State Senate seat and ran on the Republican ticket for Lt. Gov. two years ago. Deval Patrick and Tim Murray won. now, Tisei is seeking to unseat john Tierney for Congress in Mass. (and has a pretty good shot at it).

Now, here's the question, Mitt. If you believe in what Tony Perkins believes, does that mean you agree that Richard Tisei is "intolerant and hateful" and acts like a "terrorist"?

Mitt, my friend, you can either believe in what Tony Perkins is and stands for, or you can believe in what Richard Tisei is and stands for. It can not be both.

Link to Tisei article;
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/239617-mass-house-candidate-could-be-first-openly-gay-republican-in-congress-

[ProSense]

3. Hope he loses

“Gov. Romney is basically right — the goal in our country should be to get everyone insured and the role of the federal government, rather than push a ‘one size fits all’ solution, should be to provide incentives for every state to innovate,” he said, adding that he would push to repeal most of the bill but leave intact the portions that allow requirements for coverage of pre-existing conditions and allowing people to stay on their parents’ healthcare plans until age 26.

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Tierney’s campaign also blasted Tisei for wanting to repeal the national healthcare law, for calling the extension of the payroll tax cut “gimmicky” and for refusing to disown the Ryan Plan.

[porphyrian]

5. Reference: Family Research Council

http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/groups/family-research-council

Hate Map: http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/hate-map

[ProSense]

6. Thanks. n/t

[porphyrian]

7. The entry makes it difficult to argue that they are not a hate group. n/t

[nc4bo]

8. Yes, vile, pandering worthless piece of human flesh. nt

[ProSense]

9. Yes. n/t