How do you know you really hate TEH GAY? When you use your last few lame-duck days in office to stir up some good old-fashioned prejudice. Hell, everyone but Arizona’s doin’ it:
Gov. Mitt Romney, fighting to end same-sex nuptials in his waning days in office, yesterday mailed copies of the state constitution to 16 area lawmakers he said violated their oath of office by dodging a vote on a gay-marriage ban.
Romney plans to ask the state’s high court later this week to go around the Legislature and put the gay marriage ban directly on the ballot for voters to decide.
Pink triangles must really piss you off to waste those last few governating hours on the gay marriage ban.
Winners of the 2006 Mitt Romney “Most Adorable Tots” Award
What would possess a man to make such an asshole (tender, inviting asshole) of himself?
Targeted lawmakers slammed the outgoing GOP governor for trying to appease national voters as he weighs a run for president.
Ohhhh, I get it. Romney thinks that by hating on the rainbow he’ll resemble one of the Nazi plush toys to which so many frightened Christians cling at night.
Available at Wal-Mart this Christmas!
The actual scary development is that Romney thinks this is the issue his prospective voters care about most. He did not make a symbolic move to beef up security or denounce a bad war or cut government spending or protect corporations or pretend like he cared about small business or privatize/deregulate anything or kiss a baby. No, he hated on gays as publicly as possible, something he hadn’t made a point of doing previously.
Anti-gaiety appears to be what conservatives feel will be their sexiest play going into a presidential election.
I don’t think that the number of homophobes this move could get to the polls that won’t vote otherwise will balance the number of people he pisses off with his pandering.
Nah, they aren’t Prussian enough. Remember, we have to respect the “racialists”.
I don’t see the gay community and its supporters overcoming that kind of irresistable marketing.
I do. When civil unions came into effect in the UK, at least one of the conservative tabloids celebrated with a picture of their supposedly newly-wed page 3 girls. It should be easy to win over the “Girls Gone Wild” fans, at least.
The dissonance in that photo is dreadful by the way. Lovable children with “Hates” on their T-shirts?
I couldn’t resist the opportunity to mention it though, because it struck me at the time how different the possible patriarchal reactions were: From “Oh no, gays!” to “Ooh, lesbians!”
The “becoming used to it” factor is exactly why legal gay marriage is so important. The sooner it becomes an unremarkable occurence, the sooner (some) of the stupidity will be defused.
That’s why I hope morons like Romney get slapped down. However, the fact that most of the anti-gay-marriage props in the recent election were passed leaves little doubt there is still plenty of power in anti-gay bigotry…
Okay, I know it’s not just me. How many of you think those kids will GROW UP to be GAY? (Like Rod and Todd!)
That’s not even the worst of it. Romney has been doing everything everything everything he can to distance himself from the people whom he governs. Hell, the man is hardly ever in the state, anymore– he’s always out touring across Jeezusland telling everyone how hard it is to be a ‘red dot in a blue state’. He hates queers, he’s slashed repro-rights funding, he hearts abstinence-only like woah, even on environmental stuff he’s being a total bastard.
My favourite demonstrators at the constitutional convention were the radical queers holding a banner that said ‘Mass Equality, Get Off Your Knees! Marriage ≠ Liberation!’