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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Wed Apr 29, 2015, 06:34 PM Apr 2015

Texas GOP lawmaker: ‘What is going on in Baltimore’ is because of too many gay marriages

Republican U.S. House Representative Bill Flores of Texas argued this week that violence in Baltimore could be linked to the legalization of same-sex marriage in the United States.

On the Wednesday edition of the Family Research Council’s Washington Watch radio program, Flores told FRC President Tony Perkins that crowds of conservatives were showing up at the U.S. Supreme Court to urge justices to support the “rights of tradition marriage.”

Perkins suggested that the government was just creating more problems for itself as courts throughout the nation continued to rule that LGBT people should have equal marriage rights.

“A lot of these problems are created by the breakdown of the family, which the redefinition of would only accelerate,” Perkins opined. “You’re exactly right, Tony,” Flores agreed. “Let’s talk about poverty for instance… The single best indicator of whether or not a child is going to be in poverty or not is whether or not they were raised by a two-parent household or a single-parent household. And so the breakdown of the family has contributed to poverty.”

“You look at what’s going on in Baltimore today, you know, you see issues that are raised there,” the congressman continued. “And healthy marriages are the ones between a man and a woman because they can have a healthy family and they can raise children in the way that’s best for their future, not only socially but psychologically, economically, from a health perspective.”

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http://www.rawstory.com/2015/04/texas-gop-lawmaker-what-is-going-on-in-baltimore-is-because-of-too-many-gay-marriages/

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Texas GOP lawmaker: ‘What is going on in Baltimore’ is because of too many gay marriages (Original Post) DonViejo Apr 2015 OP
Well, at least he didnt say it is the fault of black culture, you know, where they aint got NoJusticeNoPeace Apr 2015 #1
Damn. I thought for SURE it would be Louie Gohmert when I clicked on this! nt Buns_of_Fire Apr 2015 #2
Neither the instrument nor the mathematics has yet been invented hifiguy Apr 2015 #3
*facepalm* sakabatou Apr 2015 #4
Flores and all GOP congresscrittes are idiots Gothmog Apr 2015 #5

NoJusticeNoPeace

(5,018 posts)
1. Well, at least he didnt say it is the fault of black culture, you know, where they aint got
Wed Apr 29, 2015, 06:38 PM
Apr 2015

no daddies at home


Wait, could that be because we put them in jail at a higher rate than anyone else for the same crimes?

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
3. Neither the instrument nor the mathematics has yet been invented
Wed Apr 29, 2015, 06:39 PM
Apr 2015

that can quantify the extent of this kind of purely cement-headed imbecility.

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