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By: Danny Libre

Danny Libre — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:02:53 +0000

That's funny, i like it. happens all the time Follow me on Twitter

By: Dennis

Dennis — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 02:09:57 +0000

DId anyone notice, or did I hear wrong, around the 8:10 mark – did Peter Sprigg actually admit he thinks people are born gay (“they do not choose to have homosexual attraction but they do choose to engage in it” or something to that effect)? Regardless of the idiocy of the rest of his comments, that’s fairly interesting.

By: Gays With Guns Send Bigots Into Derangement | The Agitator

Gays With Guns Send Bigots Into Derangement | The Agitator — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:23:49 +0000

[...] Family Research Center flack Peter Sprigg (which, come to think of it, wouldn’t be a bad gay porn name) flat cut to the case. He just wants to outlaw the gays entirely. [...]

By: zoe kentucky in pittsburgh

zoe kentucky in pittsburgh — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:47:37 +0000

It’s people like Peter Sprigg (and all of the other crazy professional anti-gay folks in the beltway) that keep me from being too angry and vindicitive towards the Dems. I want to scream whenever I hear any of my fellow lefties act like letting the GOP back in power is somehow a punishment that the dems need and deserve. It just goes so show that they’re not adequately scared enough of how crazy the right-wing is and what they would try to do if they thought they could get away with it.

My partner and I have been together for over 10 years. I don’t ever pretend that that shit couldn’t get ugly/crazy enough in this country that we couldn’t be rounded up and prosecuted. I suppose my identity as a Jewish lesbian sort of helps me never forget that things can go in a very bad direction when you least expect it.

There are more of us than there of them BUT they don’t have doubts that they are completely right and would pretty much do anything to get their bigoted beliefs enshrined into law.

By: celticdragonchick

celticdragonchick — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:27:55 +0000

After watching this segment, I only wonder that people ask me why I am armed.

I know that there men like Sprigg who are willing to use the coercive power of the state and even deadly force to enact their religious agenda on everybody else. They are dangerous and they are not going away.

If I think for one moment that somebody like him is in any way a threat to my person or my family, I will keep shooting until I am satisfied that he won’t be a threat again.

Never take for granted that the freedoms we have now are permanent. Never assume that history trends towards justice. There are an awful lot of very wealthy and very motivated “conservatives” who are willing to throw me and you into prison or see us dead…and they vote.

By: Poll finds many Republicans disconnected from reality; Wapo calls Obama disconnected despite its own polling data « blahgblog

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:57:40 +0000

[...] As Sargent points out, when asked whether Obama “understand the problems of people like you,” 57% said yes, 42% said no and 2% were undecided. And the Post chooses to portray this by asserting “almost half” of the respondents feel he is disconnected. They’re not even trying anymore; just like the guy on Hardball yesterday who, in explaining his opposition to ending DADT, said he wanted to outlaw homosexuality. [...]

By: Interrobang

Interrobang — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:50:22 +0000

Just remember, whenever you see a right-wing organisation with "Family" in the name, the name will always make more sense if you substitute "Patriarchy" instead. Chuck Butcher: I fail to see how the belief in the lack of something is more credible than the belief in the existence of something. That's because atheism isn't a belief in the lack of something (*headdesk*), it's a lack of belief in something. There is no "lack," to believe in; there's just no belief. If you're having trouble getting your head around that idea, spend a few moments pondering how you believe there's no such goddess as Innana. Or how you believe there's no such god as Inkadu. Or how you believe there's no such spiritual figure as The Coyote. Sounding ridiculous yet? The thing is, you don't believe there's no Innana, Inkadu, Coyote, Thor, Anansi, whoever; you don't believe in any of them. Personally, I believe in one less god than most Christians, is all...

By: Mike in NC

Mike in NC — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:34:37 +0000

Old saying in Afghanistan—Women are for procreation. Boys are for recreation.

That’s the way they played it in Bahrain, and pretty much all over the Middle East.

By: soonergrunt

soonergrunt — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:16:34 +0000

@bob h:
Yes. It is so. I searched a TB safe house once and we found a huge stash of man/boy and a much smaller one of man/girl (as in younger than 10) porn.
Old saying in Afghanistan—Women are for procreation. Boys are for recreation.

By: AxelFoley

AxelFoley — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:50:01 +0000

@inkadu:

Did I say flame-retardant? I meant flame-special-needs.

LOL, I see what you did there.

By: Homogenic « The Poor Man Institute

Homogenic « The Poor Man Institute — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:39:44 +0000

[...] 3, 2010 Homogenic Posted by curv3ball under Uncategorized Leave a Comment This exchange from a Chris Matthews interview with the Family Research Council’s Peter Sprigg makes me [...]

By: Trumanesque « 5280.5

Trumanesque « 5280.5 — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:37:04 +0000

[...] good recaps of the hearing are here, here, and here. Honestly, I’m a bit bummed it’ll take a year, but I’d rather they do this right so when it [...]

By: Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony

Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:32:05 +0000

The Family Research Council never hid it.

By: toujoursdan

toujoursdan — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:43:04 +0000

My Brooklyn, NY Episcopal Church is about 1/3 gay. We have a gay priest who has been in a relationship for ten years. The parish in the neighbouring area also has a gay priest. Our bishop is heterosexual but has a lesbian daughter who is married to another women and living in MA.

When he became bishop he ordered all openly gay priests in relationships in the diocese to get married/civil unioned so that their relationships are taken just as seriously as straight marriages.

A rather small percentage of the Episcopal Church (at most 5-10%) is gnashing their teeth over gay people in their midst but most people accept it, have moved on and treat gay couples like anyone else. Many gay people (particularly ex-Catholics and ex-Orthodox) end up at Episcopal churches because they like the worship but are tired of the rejection.

By: Remember November

Remember November — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:52:37 +0000

@Ted the Slacker: but to them getting a hummer from a hooker is not "sodomy"