Citing the end times and quacks, Republicans block civil unions bill in Colorado

[ck4829]

Last night, Colorado’s House Judiciary Committee failed to advance Senate Bill-172, which would have allowed residents to enter into civil unions and provided same-sex couples with critical legal protections. The bill passed the Senate last week, but a motion to move the measure onto the Committee on Appropriations did not garner a majority and fell in a 5-6 party line vote. As the Denver Post reported, “it was clear that the vote was painful for some Republicans, including Rep. Brian DelGrosso of Loveland, whose uncle is gay. He bowed his head when voting “no.” “It was tough,” DelGrosso said afterward.”

Douglas Napier of the Alliance Defense Fund led the formal opposition against the bill and maintained that civil unions would likely lead to same-sex marriage, despite a 2006 voter-approved constitutional amendment that defined marriage as a union between a man and a woman. The debate quickly disintegrated from there, as witnesses began quoting the Bible, regurgitating thoroughly debunked claims about ex-gay therapy and even predicting the end of times. The Family Research Institute’s Dr. Paul Cameron — whose so-called ‘research’ on homosexuality has been condemned and refuted by most major medical organizations in the United States and Canada — provided the most colorful testimony.

http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2011/04/01/co-unions-fail/

[RKP5637]

1. Bigots and fucken crazy religious nut cases. n/t

[gratuitous]

2. Well done, Brian DelGrosso

You'd rather serve your selfish party's selfish political interests than see your uncle, your own flesh and blood, granted even a similitude of the full rights of citizenship. Sleep the sleep of the cowardly, you snivelling sham of a man.

[RKP5637]

3. Stabbed him right in the back, so typically republican. In my lifetime I've watched

republicans move from once being a rational counterbalance with some good ideas to these outrageous monstrosities we have today.

[KamaAina]

6. I hope his uncle brings a special dish to Thanksgiving dinner

and spits in his portion. :P

[Tesha]

7. Well, "it was tough"...

...but it apparently wasn't *THAT* tough.

Tesha

[walldude]

9. Right? And then to complain that it was "hard" to vote?

No, hard to vote would have been to do the right thing. You took the sniveling, whiner, way out you fucking waste of flesh...

[Turbineguy]

4. So if I understand this correctly

they hope to stave off that Day of Reckoning when all good christians will be raptured?

Don't they have any faith?

[Rex]

5. Oh Lord, why did you make such stupid creatures?

Was it to punish the slightly less insane ones or just a big 'haha' cosmic joke, Lord. Please rapture your flock within the next 5 minutes...amen.

'Hung his head'? How do you look your uncle in the eyes after that?

Fucking pathetic.

:eyes:

[joshcryer]

8. So don't fucking vote no. Jeez.

Whatever happened to doing the easy thing? :P