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Wed Apr 22, 2015, 03:03 PM Apr 2015

When Florida Man gets elected to congress...



Ted Yoho, Anti-Gay Group Spox Blame Democrats For LGBT Rights 'Distraction'

Submitted by Brian Tashman on Wednesday, 4/22/2015 2:05 pm

When the Family Research Council’s Craig James was guest-hosting the organization’s “Washington Watch” program last night, an interview with Rep. Ted Yoho, R-Fla., inevitably turned toward the upcoming Supreme Court arguments on the constitutionality of same-sex marriage bans. Remarkably, James, whose group lives and breathes opposition to LGBT rights, blamed liberals for pushing marriage equality in order to distract voters “away from reality.”

- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/ted-yoho-anti-gay-group-spox-blame-democrats-lgbt-rights-distraction#sthash.FT3ujApl.dpuf
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When Florida Man gets elected to congress... (Original Post) Archae Apr 2015 OP
Sour grapes - I heard it on Rush Ahole the other day underpants Apr 2015 #1

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1. Sour grapes - I heard it on Rush Ahole the other day
Wed Apr 22, 2015, 03:41 PM
Apr 2015

He actually said that "Republicans have avoided social issues for the last 20 years" and that liberals have drawn them back into it as a setup. In other words- they lost and now want to claim that they never wanted to play in the first place.

God Guns & Gays were the three main columns of the Reagan Revolution courtesy of Atwater and Rev. Moon.

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