Tea Party leader says anti-gay bullying is ‘healthy peer pressure’

[Linus]

Originally Posted by Mister Bent

The sad thing is, even as a joke, they still do their damage. Phelps has his followers, and he won that suit brought against him by the family of one of the soldier's who's funeral he protested.

Michele Bachmann recently signed the pledge to uphold "traditional" marriage, which includes rejection of Sharia Islam, supporting legal advocacy for DOMA and

"Fierce defense of the First Amendment rights...especially against the intolerance of any who would undermine law-abiding American citizens and institutions of faith and conscience for their adherence to, and defense of, faithful heterosexual monogamy."

The pledge also manages to slip in that homosexuality is both a choice and a health risk and calls for banning female pornography "in an effort to protect women from 'seduction into promiscuity and all forms of pornography . . . and other types of coercion or stolen innocence.'" What's interesting about that to me (in the sense that I am interested in institutionalized hypocrisy) is that they condemn Sharia law and other "anti-woman...forms of totalitarian control" while reinforcing the notion that sexualized women are part of the problem with fidelity and the decline in "family values."

Unfortunately, while many of us can see that this is all serious crazy talk, there are enough people - especially among fundamentalist religious types - who think this is precisely what's required to "turn this country around" and so Bachmann's campaign coffers grow.

Interesting pledge. So many Americans will agree with it and will say that it's their right as a straight person to be able to defend themselves. And will probably also couch it with "I don't hate gays. I have gay friends".

Hrmm... that sounds awfully familiar, no?

[CherylNYC]

I fervently hope that someone arrests Mr. Swier in a public men's room for his 'wide stance'.

Then it would be Michelle Bachman's turn to get arrested for assaulting her undocumented immigrant housekeeper.

Ms. Bachman's husband will be caught sexting his penis pics to his boyfriend Fred Phelps, who will die of a stroke brought on by the stress of exposure. Upon his death, the Westboro group will find that their organisation is bankrupt since Mr Phelps has spent the donated money on rent boys who he hired to 'carry his luggage'.

Mr. Bachman will appeal to his old friend Rush Limbaugh to help him out with his marriage. Ms. Bachman is not pleased because the press has been leaking her husband's gay sexts one by one over the week. She does, however, like that they take the focus off her own legal troubles. Rush manages to broker a deal between them, and they've arranged to meet behind the local 7-11 at Mr.Limbaugh's request. (He had to meet his dealer there, first.) The local tabloids have hacked Ms. Bachman's phone and they send a stealth news team to cover the event.

Unfortunately, Rush will proceed to OD in the Bachman's car with them at his side. Mr. Limbaugh's dealer will be arrested just after he cops, and the dealer will instantly give him up to the arresting officers. The local constabulary will descend upon the suspect car just after the news team starts filming the Bachman's trying desperately to drag the larger-than-life body of Mr. Limbaugh into the drainage ditch behind the dimly lit parking lot.

Did I leave anyone out?