He's back!!! Tom DeLay: I have a ‘right’ to not serve gay sinners

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Former House Speaker Tom DeLay (R-TX) blasted the governors of Indiana and Arkansas this week for changing religious liberty laws to prevent discrimination against LGBT people.

“This is the result of the gay agenda,” DeLay told Newsmax host Steve Malzberg on Monday. “We’re now seeing what the gay agenda is all about. Our religious liberty, as you know, Steve, is the bedrock of our country. As it’s described in the Declaration of Independence, that we get our rights from our creator, somebody bigger than us. And from that, we get truth, with the values by which we live. And from that, we’re good people that can govern through the Constitution.”

“Religious liberty is the foundation of this country, and what they’re trying to do is undermine religious liberty so that they become an accepted sexual orientation,” the former House Speaker continued. “And we have got to fight this battle to the bitter end because when you let the government dictate to you what you believe and what your values are, this county is finished.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/04/tom-delay-i-have-a-right-to-not-serve-gay-sinners-because-they-undermine-my-religious-liberty/comments/#disqus

[trusty elf]

1. .....

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[Trillo]

2. Another religious bigot. NT

[malaise]

3. Do we have the right not to serve ex-cons?

Fuck that fucker!

[Maeve]

4. And I remember a time when his ilk believed they had the right

NOT to serve blacks...or mixed-race couples...or anyone who looked foreign...

Wrong side of history, BugMan.

[napkinz]

5. what part of separation of church and state doesn't he get ...

[Initech]

16. He must have failed both religion and history then.

[Gothmog]

18. These memes are great

[herding cats]

6. Exploitation of religion is a DeLay specialty

Remember the Schiavo circus? That was brought to you thanks to Tom DeLay. It's no surprise they'd dig up this relic from the past to work the show again.

I still don't understand how he managed to overturn his conviction.

[still_one]

7. no you don't asshole, not if you serve the public

[sinkingfeeling]

8. Who? He's been replaced with bat-shit crazy Cruz.

[napkinz]

9. memories ...

[One_Life_To_Give]

10. They gonna force us to sell food and water to them thar gay's?

that can't be right! It's my Constitutional Right to only sell food and water to the good god fearing members of the Church of NewEngland.


How quickly people forget the reasons why we put a stop to such nonsense in the first place.

[Takket]

11. amazing how many "lawmakers" in this country know nothing of what laws we have or what the

Constitution says.

[Skidmore]

12. He needs to crawl back under the rock at the end of his drive.

Slug.

[longship]

13. BTW, Tom Delay was NEVER Speaker. Please correct. nt

[jmowreader]

14. I have rights too

Like the right to not serve anyone who commits a Matthew 6.5-13* violation.

*Matt. 6.5-13 is the part of the Bible where Jesus tells you to pray in private.

[onenote]

15. Has Delay actually read the Declaration of Independence? The part about "all men are created equal"

and "are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness"


It would be a fair question to ask how Delay gets from the idea that all men (and by men we now understand it to mean humanity) are created equal with certain unalienable rights, which include not only the right to Life and Liberty but also the pursuit of Happiness -- to a right to treat certain people as less than equal and deny them their inalienable right to the pursuit of happiness through, for example, marrying the person they love.

The answer, of course, is that he ignores the actual words of the Declaration of Independence and relies on the words of hate in his head.

[Gothmog]

17. There are rumors that DeLay is going to run for his old seat in 2016

The current occupant is a little worried.

[olddots]

19. the term " shit for brains " comes to mind

hey Tommy go away .

[Rob H.]

20. He's okay with forced abortions and inhumane working conditions, though

Jack Abramoff CNMI scandal

In testimony before the Senate, it was described that 91% of the private-sector workforce were immigrants, and were being paid barely half the U.S. minimum hourly wage. Stories also emerged of workers forced to live behind barbed wire in squalid shacks without plumbing. A Department of the Interior report found that "Chinese women were subject to forced abortions and that women and children were subject to forced prostitution in the local sex-tourism industry." The Senate passed the Murkowski worker reform bill unanimously. The bill was then blocked by Tom DeLay in the house.

...

Abramoff later arranged an all-expenses paid trip to Saipan for Tom DeLay on New Year's Eve in 1997. Although House ethics rules at the time prohibited House members from accepting such gifts from lobbyists, the trip was funded directly by the CNMI and thus was technically allowable. An internal memo from Preston, Gates, and Ellis stated that these sort of trips are "one of the most effective ways to build permanent friends on the Hill." While on the trip, at a benefit dinner for Willie Tan of Tan Holdings Corporation, DeLay was quoted as saying:

"When one of my closest and dearest friends, Jack Abramoff, your most able representative in Washington, D.C., invited me to the islands, I wanted to see firsthand the free-market success and the progress and reform you have made." [7]

An undercover investigation by ABC News captured Willie Tan speaking on a hidden camera about a conversation with DeLay about labor reform laws. According to Tan, &quot DeLay) said, 'Willie, if they elect me majority whip, I make the schedule of the Congress, and I'm not going to put it on the schedule.' So Tom told me, 'Forget it, Willie. No chance.'"

After the trip, Abramoff helped DeLay craft policy that extended exemptions from federal immigration and mimimum-wage labor laws to Saipan industries, though the island is part of the U.S. Commonwealth. Brian Ross at ABC News for 20/20 on March 13, 1998 alleged that factories on Saipan have forced their workers to have abortions in order to keep their jobs.

[tanyev]

21. Aw, Tom. Don't you remember when you did a samba to Why Can't We Be Friends?

Don't tell me you were lying about that.

[onethatcares]

22. oh Jesus,

would he just marry sarah and get that word salad straight?

[spanone]

23. tommy boy, i think we're seeing what the 'christian agenda' is all about, and it ain't Christ-like

[Action_Patrol]

24. Poorly written. He was never the Speaker of the House