In an infamous moment at the Values Voter Summit over the weekend, captured on video by Dave Weigel, Sen. Tom Coburn’s (R-OK) chief of staff Michael Schwartz made the case against pornography. “All pornography is homosexual pornography,” said Schwartz, quoting an ex-gay friend of his, “because all pornography turns your sexual drive inwards.”
By Julia Rosen Wednesday Sep 23, 2009 11:00am
This is the brand new ad from the Yes on 1 campaign in Maine:
And, this is a Prop 8 ad from last fall in California:
The same consultants behind Prop 8 were hired for exactly this, drive up fear about marriage equality using lies about kids and churches. It goes without saying that Maine does not force school to talk about marriage equality, in fact they don’t have to talk about marriage at all. Dirigo Blue got a comment from the Maine Department of Education Comunications Director David Connerty-Marin:
I cannot comment on Massachusetts education law or decisions made by local school districts in Massachusetts. Here in Maine, our Learning Results standards and education regulations make no reference to the teaching of marriage in any way. So a change in Maine’s laws or definition of marriage places no requirements on local districts regarding whether or how they teach about marriage. Such curriculum decisions are strictly local. Before or after passage of the gay marriage law a district could choose to teach about marriage or not, and to teach about it in any way it deemed appropriate. It simply is not governed by state education law.
But Schubert/Flint seems to be phoning it in a bit. They don’t seem to realize what a far right wacko they picked to be in their ad.
Charla Bansley is a high school teacher at a private Christian school, not an elementary public school teacher as they are implying in the ad. And the leader of the Maine Chapter of Concerned Women of America, which is a hard-right nut-job org (anti-gay, anti-abortion, pro-religion in schools, anti-porn, and anti-UN, yes they hate the United Nations). And she is a teabagger. And tried to get a student expelled for writing a pro-marriage equality letter to the editor as part of a class project.
And she thinks gays are psychotic and deviants. From a speech she gave at a Stand for Marriage Maine rally recently. Louise has much more over at the Blend.
Public display of psychosis and we have dealt with it by redefining decency down so as to explain away and make normal what a more civilized, and ordered, and healthy society would label deviant and the result has been a stunning failure.
This woman is a walking opportunity for opposition research and should be fodder for a while. Her values are not Maine values.
Fight back against this nasty. Fight back against fundie lies. Fight for love and marriage.
Give till it hurts, because if they win, there will be pain for Maine LGBT families.
http://crooksandliars.com/julia-rosen/recycled-lies-yes-1-campaign-maine
“Personhood Florida,” a religious-based group, wants to constitutionally define conception as the “biological beginnings” of life. Language is still being worked out, but this would define life as beginning when the sperm meets the egg. We earlier wrote about the Virginia-based “American Life League” that is promoting this concept, but it’s important to also note the effect it will have on a women’s right to contraception.
The amendment seeks to outlaw all abortions, even in cases of rape and incest. Also criminalized: the morning-after pill and oral contraceptives taken by women, known as the pill. “There are some (birth control) methods that kill a child,” said Pat McEwan, who is leading the Personhood Florida group.
The amendment faces extremely long odds. First, supporters must gather 676,811 signatures to make the ballot — by Feb. 1, to go before voters in 2010.
They’re pushing this in a dozen other states, but only in Colorado has it ever appeared on a ballot. It was rejected there by a 3-1 margin.
At a press conference in Tallahassee, speakers blamed abortion for the financial insolvency of Social Security and the bankruptcy of American auto manufacturers, citing the millions of terminated pregnancies since Roe. v. Wade as costing the nation citizens and customers. They also said that a fetus is a person and should be given protections of law.
“It is obvious in our ultrasounds that that little baby, even at just eight weeks old, is a person,” said Brenda MacMenamin, a Personhood Florida organizer. “Their rights our self-evident and they are inalienable. We want to give the voters of the state of Florida the right to vote on personhood.”
Florida Anti-Abortion Group Wants To Ban Birth Control
September 14th, 2009, 4:47 PM EDT
http://www.alan.com/2009/09/14/florida-anti-abortion-group-wants-to-ban-birth-control/
“If you got to castrate your miserable self with a piece of rusty barb wire, do it.”
“Hear the word of the LORD, America, fag-enablers are worse than the fags themselves, and will be punished in the everlasting lake of fire!”
“You telling these miserable, Hell-bound, bath house-wallowing, anal-copulating fags that God loves them!? You have bats in the belfry!”
“American Veterans are to blame for the fag takeover of this nation. They have the power in their political lobby to influence the zeitgeist, get the fags out of the military, and back in the closet where they belong!”
“Not only is homosexuality a sin, but anyone who supports fags is just as guilty as they are. You are both worthy of death.”
KCAL-TV in Los Angeles played a tape of the married Yorba Linda Republican speaking about sex with two women. He apparently did not realize a microphone was on during a legislative hearing.
Mike Duvall
Assemblyman Mike Duvall (R- Yorba Linda) stepped down after legislative leaders stripped him of his committee posts this morning and launched an ethics probe of his actions.
Reporting from Sacramento – An Orange County lawmaker who inadvertently broadcast explicit remarks about his sexual conquests over an open microphone during a lull in a Sacramento hearing abruptly resigned from office this afternoon.
Assemblyman Mike Duvall (R-Yorba Linda) stepped down after legislative leaders stripped him of his committee posts this morning and launched an ethics probe of his actions.
“I am deeply saddened that my inappropriate comments have become a major distraction for my colleagues in the Assembly, who are working hard on the very serious problems facing our state,” Duvall said in a written statement. “I have come to the conclusion that it would not be fair to my family, my constituents or to my friends on both sides of the aisle to remain in office. Therefore, I have decided to resign my office, effective immediately, so that the Assembly can get back to work.”
Legislative leaders had earlier expressed disgust at the comments of Duvall, who was vice chairman of the Utilities and Commerce Committee and a member of the Rules Committee. And at least one Republican Party official had said the lawmaker should consider resigning.
His remarks were caught on videotape during a July hearing of the Assembly Appropriations committee and aired on a KCAL television news report Tuesday night. In the videotape, the married, socially conservative Duvall talks with a colleague in uninhibited detail about his apparent trysts with two women, neither of them his wife.
The KCAL report says one of the women is a lobbyist for a major utility with business before Duvall’s committee. In the videotape, Duvall says her birthday is July 6, the same date as a Sacramento lobbyist for the San Diego-based energy firm Sempra.
The company issued a written statement this afternoon, saying it “takes very seriously any reports involving the conduct of our employees.”
“We are investigating this matter and the recent media reports that named one of our employees,” the Sempra statement said. “The employee has denied the speculative media reports. Our investigation will be conducted to ensure not only that our policies on employee conduct are strictly adhered to, but also that our employee is treated fairly.”
Duvall, who had declined to answer questions about his remarks, posted an apology for the July comments on his campaign website this morning.
“I made a mistake and I sincerely apologize,” the statement said. “I deeply regret the comments I made in what I believed to be a private conversation. This is a private matter and I ask that everyone respect the privacy of all involved.”
On the tape, Duvall describes the “little eye-patch underwear” worn by one of the women. He refers to the age gap between her and him, after a recent birthday made them 18 years apart. “Now, you’re getting old, man, I am going to have to trade you in,” he said he told her.
Later, he tells the colleague about a second woman.
“Sher, Shar, Shar – oh, she is hot. I talked to her yesterday. She goes, ‘So are we finished?’ ” Duvall says, adding that he replied no. He continues: “And I go, ‘You know about the other one, but the other one doesn’t know about you.’ ”
Before Duvall resigned, Orange County Republican Party Chairman Scott Baugh said he had seen the video, “and there’s absolutely nothing you can defend in anything that was said by Assemblyman Duvall.” He added: “My heart goes out to his family, but I think he should go home and consider resigning.”
The Capitol Resource Institute, a conservative, self-described “pro-family” advocacy organization that had given Duvall a “100%” score for his voting record on issues of concern to the group, denounced the lawmaker in a statement today.
“It is always disappointing when a champion of traditional values does not practice the same in his private life,” said Karen England, executive director of CRI. “And this appears to be the case with Assemblyman Duvall.”
The scandal has erupted as lawmakers scurry to act on dozens of bills with just three days left in the legislative session. They have yet to finish work on the state’s prison overcrowding crisis, its water infrastructure problems and other major issues.
“I am terribly disappointed by the situation surrounding Assemblyman Duvall’s comments,” said Assembly GOP Leader Sam Blakeslee of San Luis Obispo. ” The statements he made were inappropriate and unacceptable.”
Assembly Speaker Karen Bass (D-Los Angeles) said Duvall’s comments left her “saddened and disappointed. . . .The Assembly has some very important policy work to complete in the next couple of days and we will not allow this situation to become a distraction.”
shane.goldmacher@latimes.com
patrick.mcgreevy@latimes.com
Times staff writer Eric Bailey contributed to this report.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-duvall10-2009sep10,0,2300584.story?track=rss
The Republicans welcomed the Neocons with open arms: the Taliban welcomed
al quaeda with open arms.
The Republicans sheltered the Neocons: the Taliban sheltered al quaeda.
The Republicans defended the Neocons: the Taliban defended al quaeda.
The Republicans bought and pursued the Neocon agenda: the Taliban bought
and pursued the agenda of al quaeda.
The Republicans have become a religious movement: the Taliban are a
religious movement.
The Republicans want to implement biblical law: the Taliban have Sharia.
The Republicans want to dictate a womans rights: the Taliban give no
rights to women.
The Republicans torture: so do the Taliban.
The Republicans are brainwashed daily by Limbaugh, Hannity and Coulter:
the Taliban are brainwashed by Mullahs.
The Republicans speak of a “Crusade” against Moslems: The taliban
practice genocide.
The Republicans bribe the ignorant into a military: the Taliban
conscripts.
The Republicans and the Taliban are indistinguishable.
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Originally Posted by Curly Surmudgeon on September 1, 2009, 4:46 pm
http://www.rittercnc.com/cnc/Republicans-The-American-Taliban-43834-.htm
I recently found out about the whole “American Taliban”, I didn’t even realize there was a name for the evil that has been perpetrated against the people that choose not to live their lives by an outdated text (The Bible).
It is now my mission in life to expose the hypocrisy of the so called “Right Wing Fundamentalists” who have been terrorizing not only their own followers (By spreading HATEFUL LIES about anyone that isn’t like them)
Finally we get to put a name to the terror!
That’s why I started The S.T.A.T. Foundation (Stop The American Taliban).
Help me and others that would like to expose who is creating the real terror, if you find something that will educate others on the subject, please send us a link to the media, and we will post it.
Let FREE SPEECH LIVE STRONG support The S.T.A.T. Foundation!!!!
Support equal rights, protect the right to privacy and don’t let fundamental terrorism flourish on US soil by any means.
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