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TexasTowelie

(112,489 posts)
Fri Feb 28, 2014, 10:03 PM Feb 2014

Harris County Republican Party to rally against “sodomite” marriage, “dictator” judge on Monday

Calling gay people “sodomites” and U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia a “would-be dictator,” the Harris County Republican Party announced it will host a news conference Monday morning in response to Garcia’s ruling Wednesday striking down Texas’ bans on same-sex marriage.

The event at county GOP headquarters seems like a pretty obvious ploy to energize the conservative base in advance of Tuesday’s primary — when, among others, Chair Jared Woodfill faces a challenger from within the party.

According to a release sent out Friday afternoon, party workers and eleted officials will “stand shoulder to shoulder with people of faith to denounce the lawless ruling of a federal court seeking to impose the whims of unelected judges on the people of Texas.”

“President Obama set a precedent of lawlessness by intimating that he would now use his ‘pen’ and ‘phone’ to circumvent the will of the people and their elected representatives. Now every petty would-be dictator this side of the Rio Grande is advancing personal agendas by decree,” said Woodfill, who is referred to as “a staunch advocate of family values.”

More at http://www.lonestarq.com/harris-county-republican-party-rally-sodomite-marriage-dictator-judge-monday/ .

Equality Texas is planning a nonpartisan prayer vigil outside Harris County Republican Party headquarters to counter the GOP’s “Stand for Marriage” rally. Read more here.

Cross-posted in the LGBT Group.

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Harris County Republican Party to rally against “sodomite” marriage, “dictator” judge on Monday (Original Post) TexasTowelie Feb 2014 OP
Woodfill, the current Harris County chair, is a tea party type Gothmog Feb 2014 #1
Those types of people make me sick. TxDemChem Mar 2014 #2
Hotze is a nut case Gothmog Mar 2014 #3

Gothmog

(145,631 posts)
1. Woodfill, the current Harris County chair, is a tea party type
Fri Feb 28, 2014, 11:42 PM
Feb 2014

Woodfill is facing a challenge from the sane faction of the party funded by the County Judge. The current chairman lost his.sugar daddy, Bob Perry

TxDemChem

(1,918 posts)
2. Those types of people make me sick.
Sat Mar 1, 2014, 08:53 AM
Mar 2014

I wish I could smack each and everyone of them in the face with the constitution. They have no understanding of equality.

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