GOP leader calls gays "intolerant bigots"

[davidinalameda]

http://www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?ID=9962&sd=09/24/03

The National Stonewall Democrats have denounced Republican National Committee chairman Ed Gillespie for referring to gay Americans as intolerant bigots. On Tuesday, Gillespie told The Washington Times, "I think when people say, 'Well, no, that's not enough that you accept me for who I am, you have to agree with--and condone--my choice,' that to me is religious bigotry, and I believe that's intolerant. I think they are the ones who are crossing a line here." Gillespie also said that the RNC will move to oppose civil recognition of same-sex marriage in its 2004 platform.


All I can say is that it takes one to know one!

[meegbear]

1. religious bigotry?

Black, meet kettle.

[htuttle]

2. The Republicans have obvously decided...

...that psychological projection is an effective political strategy.

[goobergunch]

3. "...oppose civil recognition of same-sex marriage in its 2004 platform."

So they can be officially enshrined as bigots...knowing the language that Repukes like to use, it won't be too hard!

[mac56]

4. Any comment from the Log Cabin Republicans?

nm

[StopTheMorans]

6. "we value money over principles"

n/t

[davidinalameda]

8. there was a response from the LCR executive director

Log Cabin Republicans executive director Patrick Guerriero took issue with Gillespie's support of the proposed constitutional amendment. "We should not marginalize gay families," Guerriero said. "And to be true to our conservative roots, we should not tinker with the sacred United States Constitution to score temporary political points.

"We win elections by addition, not subtraction," Guerriero continued. "With the electorate evenly divided, a small number of fair-minded swing voters who embrace tolerance and inclusion will decide this election. They want our party to focus on jump-starting the American economy and winning the war on terror, not igniting the failed cultural wars of the past."

[jonnyblitz]

14. oh I bet Andrew Sullivan is stewing over this.

He goes through some heart wrenching soul searching whenever any of his political allies make homophobic comments. I feel for him. :puke:

[StephNW4Clark]

5. Sign of desperation

The fact that they are appealing to fundamentalist Christian right-wingers signals how desperate they are to not only appear to be on the attack, but how they also know they can't win on any other platform. So they're going for super-ego moral self-righteousness.

Of course, I would LOVE to see them have to say that to the family of a gay soldier who died in Bush's War in Iraq.

Duplicitous bastards.

[eyesroll]

7. So would Gillespie call me a religious bigot because my marriage is legal?

I'm not of the same religion as my husband, you know.
But the state recognizes it anyway.

Or my cousin Marsha, who is married to Larry -- she's white! He's black! The state recognizes that marriage, even though her own mother didn't. Does that make Marsha a religious (or racial) bigot, because she expected the state to be OK with her choice?

[cprise]

9. Then mixed-marriages must be all about bigotry

...because it wasn't always legal and they had to make the rest of us accept it.

This just proves the Republican are cornered on every issue, so they choose to pick on the people who are already the most disenfranchised (on paper at least).

PS- How absurd. Please note the Orwellian war-is-peace, black-is-white tendencies of these propagandists. I think the reason why these people go around accusing all kinds of people of being Communists is that the very idea of repression and totalitarianism gives 'em a big, fat boner!

[Terran]

13. excellent point n/t

:thumbsup:

[w4rma]

10. insane (n/t)

[joshdawg]

11. Sounds like Gillespie

is the intolerant bigot here and not the gays. Unless he is gay. Hmmmmmm!!! Nah! That would be insulting to gays.

[Stuckinthebush]

12. God, I hate the GOP

Bastards.

[RedSox02]

15. The Jews were intolerant of the Nazis

Where'd they find this guy? What great logic! Watch the Dems retreat now!!!!!!

Give me a break.

The Nazis thought the Jews had to go, so were the Jews being biggoted by resisting?

[JohnKleeb]

16. *eyeballs Ed Gillespie*

:eyes:
lol Ed, and your party is tolerant.

[murphymom]

17. Don't understand

why a loving, committed relationship between 2 gay people is considered less valid than some of the celebrity marriage "flavor of the month" relationships that get all the press.

The only possible difference that I could see with gay marriage would be in parental rights and responsibilities (as a child born into a gay marriage would be the biological child of only one of the people). Not a lawyer here, but doesn't the law make the assumption that a child born into a marriage is legally the child of the two people, unless some action is taken to prove otherwise? Of course custody and parental responsibilities are dealt with all the time with "blended" families.

[MarianJack]

18. What was his next statement?

I bet it had something to do with those bigoted African Americans and Jews who have the temerity to dislike the kkk. :crazy: :tinfoilhat: :silly: :wtf: :spank:

[kwolf68]

19. LMAO

I have never seen a group of people make such hyperbolic statements.

From what I have seen all gay people want is a few rights granted to hetero couples, a chance to make it in this world and to be left alone. That's pretty much it.

They don't say you have to be gay...they don't say you're an evil beast for not being gay...They just say they are gay and are happy about it.

The Reich is on a real mission. There is no truth to these people anymore. With the election just over a year away, it is time to rachet up the attacks.

Not only are these people pathetic and wrong in their attempts to disseminate their version of propaganda, but they are hateful and hypocritical. Politics for the reich means to succeed at all costs no matter how many careers or reputations (or lives) are ruined along the way.

There is no real ideology to the Reich as there never was. Any “limited government” political party that would not only increase spending on nukes, guns and bombs, but also “socialistic” programs like Medicare, Medicaid, drugs and education is working in a very limited political sphere.

It’s very simple. The reich will give America the parts of socialism we do want (Education, Medicare) so their true agenda (to advance their moral and self-righteous crusade) can come to fruition. Hitler himself said that victory can only be won through working within the German National Socialist Party.

The Republicans are vile vermin and the only thing that will place them into check is TRUTH. Eventually truth was found out about the Nazis, but sadly it was well after the last lighters of the furnaces had been distinguished.

[FredScuttle]

20. I follow his line of logic...

rape victims are intolerant of their attackers
blacks in the 50's were intolerant of their lynchers
molested children are intolerant of their molesters
nails are intolerant of hammers

and so on, and so on, and so on....