Here is Rick Perry talking to New Hampshire voters. Draw your own conclusions. I like the part where he gets really gay, around 2:45.
Note from Wayne: If you are a man and you have slept with Rick Perry or you can prove that Rick Perry hit on you, please contact me immediately at wbesen@truthwinsout.org. That little gay part that Evan alludes to at the 2:45 mark was just too much. It seemed like an unintentional crack in the alleged closet door. I heard many rumors down in Texas when I was recently in Houston. If you can confirm them, we’d like to hear from you.
Oh, Maggie Gallagher and Brian Brown, would either of you know the truth if it smacked you across the face and sang you a big gay showtune?
Rachel Maddow reported last night on NOM’s latest ruse, a pathetic effort to make it appear as if their campaign to repeal marriage rights in New Hampshire has broad popular support — as Rachel points out, supporters of the law outnumber those who want to rescind equal marriage rights by two to one. It seems that Jeremy discovered that, in a sad, sad attempt to make it look as if they have friends people are on their side, the NOMsters have resorted to photoshopping Barack Obama’s crowds to make them look like they’re watching Brian Brown speaking.
As grotesque as it is bitter, as lonely as it is hilarious, these are the actions of losers. Losers who lie a lot.
In 2009, the New Hampshire legislature voted to allow same-sex couples the freedom to marry. Since that time, support for marriage equality has only grown in the Granite State. In 2010, control of the legislature flipped to the GOP, and as a result, marriage rights for same-sex couples have come under attack from anti-gay extremist elements of the New Hampshire GOP.
This extremism flies in the face of public opinion. Newspapers have editorialized against efforts to overturn the state’s marriage equality law. A poll released earlier this month by the non-partisan University of New Hampshire Survey Center showed that 62% of New Hampshire residents oppose repealing marriage equality, with these results being nearly identical to those obtained in a February poll asking the same question. Even if you only count New Hampshire Republicans, support for overturning the law fails to win a majority.
Earlier this year, it looked as though New Hampshire Republicans were putting marriage repeal on the back burner when the House Judiciary Committee voted to push the issue to 2012. But Freedom to Marry is now reporting that a vote on the repeal bill is scheduled in the House Judiciary Committee for tomorrow, October 25. It looks as though despite strong and widespread public opposition, anti-gay extremists are indeed moving forward with their attacks on New Hampshire’s same-sex couples and families.
The next time you hear a marriage equality opponent spouting nonsense about “the will of the people” (as though minority rights should ever be subject to a majority vote…), tell them about what’s currently going on in New Hampshire. The truth is that wingnuts don’t care about the “will of the people,” only about imposing their will on the people.
Truth Wins Out will continue to monitor this attack on marriage in our neighboring state. In the meantime, please consider “liking” Standing Up for New Hampshire Families on Facebook to show solidarity with those fighting back against these attacks on equality and keep up with the latest developments out of the Granite State.
According to Reuters, all six members of Michele Bachmann’s New Hampshire campaign staff resigned en masse yesterday.
From here in Vermont, it certainly looked as though the Bachmann campaign was ignoring our neighbors in New Hampshire. Apparently, we weren’t the only ones who thought so:
“New Hampshire’s WMUR television said the reason given was due to the Bachmann campaign’s lack of focus on New Hampshire, which holds the country’s first primary election.
‘It certainly underscores the impression that New Hampshire isn’t a priority for her. She’s totally written us off,’ said former Republican state legislator Fran Wendelboe.”
Things sure aren’t looking good for Michele Bachmann. You’d think that if God told her to run, the campaign would be going a little better…
Igor Volsky went to a Tea Party rally in New Hampshire and asked the people there if they had seen any changes in the state since marriage equality passed. It doesn’t seem to have affected them.
Here is your caveat, though: This is New Hampshire. Gay wingnuts are already crowing, seemingly because they think they have a point to make, that “See, I told you the Tea Party weren’t bigots!” Again, this is New Hampshire.
It’s got to burn the Religious Right, though, seeing videos like this. At least in some places, even the craziest of the wingnuts aren’t riled up by the gays anymore.
Next time, go ask Alabama Teabaggers what they think about marriage equality, and you’ll get a very different set of responses.
There is no limit to the dumb crap wingnuts will believe, no mental contortion too great, no combination of dogwhistles too insane, when it comes to propping up the completely disproven, intellectually bereft worldview of the American fundamentalist bigot. Consider this video round-up of the most insane things said by wingnuts in the hearings on whether or not to rescind marriage equality in New Hampshire. I’ll let Igor Volsky set it up for you:
Below is a video compilation of some of the most outrageous claims levied by opponents of the measure, along with a musical surprise from a supporter of marriage equality:
- REP. ALFRED BALDASARO: “The same thing happened in Canada, where they passed gay marriage. Now they’re fighting in the courts to get 3 husbands, 3 wives.”
- SEN. FENTON GROEN: “[Homosexuality] will significantly increase their risk of serious diseases and can be expected to significantly shorten their lives.”
- HOWARD KAUFMAN: “A future redefinition of marriage that permits polygamy would facilitate the introduction an aspect of Sharia or Islamic law that permits a man to have up to four wives.”
Sharia law. Oh, dear god. Watch it:
It’s a wonder how they figure out how to put on pants in the morning.
Yay, it’s 2004 again! Joe Sudbay has a piece up where he details the anti-gay activities of bigots in early battleground states, and suggests that, when looked at together, they show an emerging strategy to try to gin up hatred against gay people, yet again, to bring rubes out to the polls. He says it nicer than that:
Opponents of same-sex marriage have created a three-pronged effort that insures the issue will be a key topic in the Presidential election. There are efforts underway by Republicans legislators in Iowa, the first caucus state, and New Hampshire, the first primary state, to end their existing marriage laws. In Iowa, the GOP-controlled House has begun the process of passing a bill to put a ban on the ballot. In New Hampshire, both the House and Senate are now GOP-led and they could try to repeal the law later this year or in 2012. In Congress, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) indicated that he’s going to push legislation to block DC’s marriage law.
It’s like an anti-marriage perfect storm. These efforts guarantee that the GOP presidential candidates (except, of course, Fred Karger) who are traipsing through Iowa and New Hampshire will try to burnish their right-wing cred by engaging in the usual gay-bashing. And, the effort by GOPers in Congress adds fuel to the fire. We’ve already seen potential Republican candidates, Tim Pawlenty and Rick Santorum, groveling before the haters. We can expect a lot more of that. And, just wait til the debates start. The GOP candidates will be doing contortions to show their base just how much they hate the gays.
He goes on to point out that in all of these cases, it’s no longer about denying gay people rights, but the even more cruel, bigoted activity of taking existing rights away.
Here are the other things open in my browser that I didn’t have time to write about today. Read them and write me two pages on each, single spaced:
1. There’s some new ludicrous group of gay activists who are against marriage equality. Oh, you’re sooooo 90′s, sooooo Berkeley, sooooo counter-culture. Whatever. Grow up.
2. Wingnuts are trying to take away marriage equality rights in New Hampshire, because we must always remember that it is ALWAYS about hurting gay families for them, 24/7.
3. The “Institute on Religion and Democracy” is very upset with Hillary Clinton’s State Department for not protecting the rights of anti-gay genocidal thugs in Third World nations.
4. A new poll says that, even before DADT repeal, the LGBT community’s feelings about President Obama were a lot sunnier than a lot of people would have you believe.
Focus calls a bill prohibiting violence on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity “pro-gay” and criticizes the proposal for not only prohibiting violence, but also inserting lessons against such violence into the curriculum.
Focus instead wants any antiviolence program to deny the existence of gay and transgender students.
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire legislators have approved a measure that would make the state the sixth to allow gay marriage.
Gov. John Lynch is expected to sign the legislation Wednesday afternoon.
He had promised a veto if the law didn’t clearly spell out that churches and religious groups would not be forced to officiate at gay marriages or provide other services.
The Senate passed the measure Wednesday, and the House followed later in the day. The House vote was 198-176.
Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine, Vermont and Iowa already allow gay marriage. Maine opponents hope to overturn that state’s law with a public vote.
