Sean Bielat, who is running to unseat the openly gay congressman from Massachusetts, Barney Frank, was asked in the Boston Herald how he felt about gays serving in the military, and had this to say:

“There’s no absolute right to serve. Men under the height of 5 feet, 2 inches can’t serve – I don’t see anybody protesting. Where are the people standing in front of the White House, the short guys standing in front of the White House? You don’t see it,” Bielat said. “We understand that there’s no absolute right to serve in all these other areas.”

Unbelievably stupid or stupidly unbelievable? What is wrong with Bielat’s comparison here? Jim Newell at Gawker explains:

Yeah, where are all the lil’ fellas handcuffing themselves to the White House gates in protest? They know they’re too damn short to go about warring; why can’t gay people realize they’re too damn attracted to members of the same sex? Hard to argue with Bielat’s logic, as presented.

Except that one group isn’t physically able to serve, while the other is. It’s not like “gay” means, say, you have zero arms and charcoal for eyes. You just like banging people of the same sex, in your free time.

Um, yeah.

And as I noted in the headline, Bielat has been endorsed by GOProud.

This has nothing to do with gay issues, but it’s too entertaining not to share.

To any who think Colbert is somehow being disrespectful of the halls of Congress, I only ask:  Have you seen Congress lately?

[h/t Andy]

They revel in being low-information voters.  They really, really love it.  They are ignorant toads, here them roar.

I can only shake my head.

[h/t Joe]

When the ad lists all the things that are supposedly on the “lame-duck” agenda, it should make you marvel at the myriad things wingnuts are afraid of, almost NONE of which even exist!

If these people ever confronted their real problems, they’d simply dissolve into puddles of spittle and regret.

Rep. Tammy Baldwin today chaired a Congressional hearing in strong opposition to pending legislation in Uganda that would outlaw all same-sex attraction and make any form of sexual relations between people of the same gender punishable by life imprisonment or execution.

Minnesota Republican Rep. Michelle Bachmann loves controversy and is a regular on cable news. The New York Times reports, however, that she is severely and habitually truth challenged and has trouble separating fact from fiction.

Bachmann is a fan of conspiracy theories, such as this doosie reported in the Times article:

And in April, Ms. Bachmann told an interviewer that she found it interesting that “it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out then under another Democrat president, Jimmy Carter.” She added, “And I’m not blaming this on President Carter; I just think it’ an interesting coincidence.”

As it happens, the scare of the 1970s came in 1976, PolitiFact found. Gerald Ford, a Republican, was president.

Needless to say, when you are as nutty as Bachmann, you are probably anti-gay. According to the congresswoman.

“If you’re involved in the gay and lesbian lifestyle, it’ bondage. It is personal bondage, personal despair and personal enslavement.”

Yes, entering relationships that are emotionally, physically and spiritually satisfying is “bondage”. While marrying someone out of convenience or religious guilt is “healthy” for both partners. Typical Bachmann “logic”. Interesting how this dishonest Bible-thumper never brings up the “false witness” section of the Good Book.

Bachmann also believes GLBT relationships are are larger problem than a failed health care system, an absence of new jobs and even terrorism. On March 20, 2004, Bachmann said on a KKMS-AM radio program, “Prophetic Views Behind The News”:

[Same-sex marriage] is probably the biggest issue that will impact our state and our nation in the last, at least, thirty years. I am not understating that.”

Bachmann is also an End Times enthusiast, saying on the same KKMS program:

“We’re in a state of crisis where our nation is literally ripping apart at the seams right now, and lawlessness is occurring from one ocean to the other. And we’re seeing the fulfillment of the Book of Judges here in our own time, where every man doing that which is right in his own eyes‚Äîin other words, anarchy.”

I suggest that everyone read today’s New York Times articles about Bachmann’s aversion to honesty. This is not a brave woman who speaks her mind. But a intellectually dishonest person who sows fear and division to drive her political career. That Republicans take this individual seriously, shows how far they have strayed from the mainstream in recent years.