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Posted on Sep 28, 2006
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Want to see unbridled hate masquerading as a defense of “values”? Watch Rep. Marilyn Musgrave (R-Colo) call the prevention of gay marriage “the most important issue we face today.” (More important than global warming, terrorism, etc.)


ThinkProgress:

Rep. Marilyn Musgrave (R-CO), the lead sponsor of the constitutional ban on gay marriage in the House, spoke this weekend at the Family Research Council’s Values Voter Summit. (Other virulently anti-gay speakers were featured at the event.)

Musgrave declared that gay marriage “is the most important issue that we face today.” She told the audience that “when you’re in a cultural war like this, you have to respond with equal and hopefully greater force if you want to win,” and warned that the future is grim “if gay marriage is not banned.” Watch it:

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By OCPatriot, September 30, 2006 at 8:30 pm Link to this comment
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This smacks, by the way, of the same type of cover-up when you talk about gay marriage and Foley has resigned because of sex crimes—the type of cover-up that the Catholic Church has now disavowed.  It cost the Church millions of dollars and resulted in great shame.  Hastert & Co. are as smarmy as the Church was in their cover-up.  One, they need to go in shame.  Two, a fund needs to be created for the interns affected by all this, carved out of Hastert’s personal fortune, or a lawyer needs to be appointed to charge Hastert with conspiracy and perjury, and to sue for injuries and damges.  If those who perpetrated this, and helped to conceal it, are taken care of, the Republican Party can claim clean hands.  Remember, this is not the rank and file, this is the Leadership of the Party.

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By TruthPlease, September 29, 2006 at 9:10 am Link to this comment
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Do I smell a red herring here?  Looks like the Republicans are getting pretty damn desperate, if this is what they’ve got to show….but never, ever forget how dangerous and unpredictable desperate people are. These folks have taken us to unbelievably new lows of behavior and action - in the name of ‘Christian values’?  Jesus hung out with the outcasts of his day, and had NOTHING to say in any of his teachings about same sex relationships.  He did, on the other hand, have a LOT to say about war mongering, treatment of the poor and vulnerable, and most of all - he spoke of loving one’s neighbor as thyself.  Do you think any of those people would accept me or you telling them who they can love? Methinks not.  But hypocrisy is just as popular today as it was with the Pharisees of Jesus’s day, it seems. Wish those guys would actually read their Bible, instead of just thumping it and waving it around!

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By kevin99999, September 29, 2006 at 7:01 am Link to this comment
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And just when you thought that the GOP could not get any more stupid.

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By Joel, September 28, 2006 at 6:41 pm Link to this comment
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Its funny how quick they are to jump on other people’s “flaws”, when they’re doing pretty terrible on the marriage issue in their own right. In a state by state comparison, the ‘Red’ states seem to have worse divorce rates that the ‘Blue’ states. Hmm. Makes you wonder…

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By veive, September 28, 2006 at 2:18 pm Link to this comment
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So what else is new?  Why should the USA not be as nutty as the rest of the modern world?  Obviously orgasm delivery participants are far more important than the nation’s viability.  Hopefully even more lunatics will make it to Congress in November.  That noise ya hear, Founding Fathers, is the sound of your dreams being flushed down the toilet.  That fella pulling the chain is George W. Bush, the Great UniteDivider.  RIP

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By Ryan, September 28, 2006 at 1:33 pm Link to this comment
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I cannot believe Marilyn Musgrave, I am in her district here and Colorado and I have been trying to get as many people as possible to vote for her opponent D-Angie Paccione.  Although both have been involved in what I think are terrible mud slinging ads, I believe that most people see through Marylyn Musgrave and her veil of “values” and see the truth. That she is a puppet of the Bush administration and hate mongerer disguised as Christian Values. How can a culture war of stopping 2 people, who love each other, from getting married be more important than stopping global warming, terrorism (which I believe is a symptom of a bigger issue), and our war in Iraq.

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By xena, September 28, 2006 at 1:24 pm Link to this comment
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attention girls- get this musgrave bird drunk, dance with her and screw her. she’ll shut up.

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By Crystal, September 28, 2006 at 9:34 am Link to this comment
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It blows my mind that these people can beleive that a marriage of the same sex, happening somewhere in the United States could actually taint the sactity of their own marriage.
Weird.

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