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Archae

(46,337 posts)
Tue Jun 30, 2015, 05:12 PM Jun 2015

The worst part about this congressidiot?

He's my congressman.

GOP Rep: Marriage Equality Decision 'Offensive' To Civil War Dead Because They Were 'Fighting To Further A Christian Lifestyle'

Submitted by Miranda Blue on Tuesday, 6/30/2015 4:37 pm

Rep. Glenn Grothman, Republican of Wisconsin, joined Milwaukee-area radio host Vicki McKenna on Friday to discuss the Supreme Court’s ruling striking down state bans on same-sex marriage. Grothman told McKenna that the Supreme Court’s reasoning, which was based on the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause, was an affront to the Americans who died in the Civil War because it was “a strong religious war to further a Christian lifestyle by getting rid of slavery.”

- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/gop-rep-marriage-equality-decision-offensive-civil-war-dead-because-they-were-fighting-furth#sthash.aK8ZR3gk.dpuf

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The worst part about this congressidiot? (Original Post) Archae Jun 2015 OP
OK, WTF is going on with Wisconsin? Is it the cheese... TreasonousBastard Jun 2015 #1
Three letters... Archae Jun 2015 #4
Has he actually read the Bible? Slavery seems to be OK if the owners are the right people Shrike47 Jun 2015 #2
The worst part? 2naSalit Jun 2015 #3

TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)
1. OK, WTF is going on with Wisconsin? Is it the cheese...
Tue Jun 30, 2015, 05:16 PM
Jun 2015

too close to the Northern Lights, an influx of illegal Canadians...

What?

Archae

(46,337 posts)
4. Three letters...
Tue Jun 30, 2015, 06:30 PM
Jun 2015

G...O...P...

The republican party began in Racine, WI, but "liberals" like Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Nixon or Reagan would be thrown out of the Teabagger-heavy GOP today.

2naSalit

(86,647 posts)
3. The worst part?
Tue Jun 30, 2015, 05:31 PM
Jun 2015

That they are a waste of good air which should be put to better use by endangered species?

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