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Sen. Coburn’s Aide: All Pornography Is Gay Pornography

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Posted on Sep 21, 2009
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Hey, you can really learn some interesting and revealing stuff at the Values Voter Summit! Take, for example, this startling declaration made Saturday by Michael Schwartz, Sen. Tom Coburn’s chief of staff, about how all pornography is gay and can make viewers gay ... or at least less attentive to their wives.  —KA

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By No_Man's_Land, September 22 at 12:12 pm #

So what does it mean if its your wife who makes you more inattentive to her? Does that mean that straight marriage could make you gay? Does that also mean that gay marriage could make you straight?

And anything that makes you turn your sexual desire inward now makes you gay… So that quick little glance he gives to those well-mannered young ladies in the audience must have been tough. I’m sure the lemon-aide and cookie reception afterward made him near suicidal. Yep those little repressed gals who bear a strange resemblance to a tribal band of lonely, shushing librarians… kind of makes me want to go one of those events an—Oh God! This is Pornography Too! OH NOOOOOOOO!

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By LostHills, September 22 at 11:25 am #

Hunting, fishing and football must be gay, too….

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By Howie Bledsoe, September 22 at 9:35 am #
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Well, it´s true then, I really AM a lesbian trapped in a man´s body!

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By bogi666, September 22 at 8:30 am #

Gayness is also a crime I suppose. Seems like Coburn’s chief of staff is projecting what he is onto everyone else. This Senator is a total nut case which put in question the ability of the voters in Oklahoma and not restricted to Oklahoma.

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By Fat Freddy, September 22 at 6:12 am #

Mr. Schwartz went on to say, that gay porn will make you straight. Which is why he has a large collection of it.

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By photoshock, September 22 at 5:48 am #

Boy, Howdy! This is the most staggering news to me.
I have a collection of pornographs, and they are the most vivid examples of womanhood imaginable.
I thoroughly enjoy the female body in all its myriad shapes and sizes, colours and schemes. Yet to know now that this collection of female pornographs, is actually homosexual, well this is the most devastating news to one so attracted to women such as I.
Yes, I must be homosexual, because I am 51 have been married once, separated and now am living alone, with my cat. This makes me the uber-homo that I have always feared, in the eyes of all my fellow citizens.
Yet, I long for the companionship and love of one woman more than anything. Given these facts, according to the aide of Sen. Tom Coburn, OK., I am the uber-homo that he fears is going to ruin this country and be the downfall of civilization as he knows it.  BULLSHIT! PLAIN and SIMPLE!

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By Fat Freddy, September 22 at 5:26 am #

So if this idea is true, is anything that makes men “less attentive to their wives” gay?

I dunno. I’m 43 and don’t have a wife. I guess that in itself makes me gay. Add to that, I have a hard drive full of porn…I must be SUPER GAY

Thanks for clearing that up for me. I’d have never known.

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By General Reason, September 22 at 3:32 am #
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The writer actually has a point (despite being buried very deep), unfortunately
he is discussing it within completely the wrong context. This should not be
about porn or the multitude of things that can make men and/or women less
attentive to their spouse… does porn make someone less attentive to the
person they are with…. probably (it does focus on selfish gain).... but, who are
we to judge that person?... As a Catholic, I understand that God loves all of His
children, regardless of their decisions here on earth, God has unending love for
His entire creation, and everyone is put here on this earth for a purpose… a
purpose that is beyond our understanding, no matter whom the person is… I
also realize that no person has the right to judge other people here on earth.
There are far too many cases today of people judging others and not
understanding the other person’s entire rationale,context, or history. We do not
have the right to judge others, there is only One who has that right. No matter
how far beyond our comprehension or understanding, and no matter how
much we may disagree with a point of view, there is always another side - God.
Human decision and interpretation can get in the way, however, the ultimate
decision is always left in the loving hands of God.

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By purplewolf, September 22 at 12:17 am #

Gee,really, this is news to me.Most of what I have seen that is classified as porn shows women’s breasts,women pleasuring the man,female on female going at it for the entertainment of the male of the species.Even television shows,as well as a lot of the so called horror movies now-a-days has a lot of female breast baring,as well as those commercials for “Girls Gone Wild.” So unless you are a lesbian,the far,far out there,right winger whack jobs are extremely confused, as usual.

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By msgmi, September 21 at 9:39 pm #
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Values Voter Summit sounds like a group of homophobes got together to express their family values credentials and bash the rainbow people around as if they are enemies of the state. Typical fascist style propaganda as once employed in the 1930’s. It speaks volumes of Sen. Tom Coburn’s intelligence.

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By RobertinWestbury, September 21 at 5:14 pm #

So if this idea is true, is anything that makes men “less attentive to their wives” gay?

Boy, the far right is warped on pretty much everything they are saying these days…

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