Indeed, Teabaggers and their defenders keep claiming that their movement has nothing to do with social issues, gays are welcome in the teabagging tent, etc. Really?
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa — About 35 people gathered for a Tea Party rally in Council Bluffs calling for a ban on gay marriage and stricter abortion laws in Iowa.
Republican legislator Kim Pearson, of Pleasant Hill, was among the speakers at Saturday afternoon’s gathering at the Mid-America Center. The Daily Nonpareil reports that Pearson said a ban would be quicker to pass than a constitutional amendment.
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Same old Religious Right, just fitted with tri-cornered hats now!
Oh they’re anti-gay all right. This shows more clearly than words the contempt and hatred they have for GLBT people.
[...] Oh, But I Thought the Tea Party Wasn’t Anti-Gay! Read more [...]
They’re also racist. In every group photo of them all you see is White tea, never Black tea. Most of them have probably never even heard of Green tea–too Asian and ‘elitist’.