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 Perry Makes No LGBTQ Friends With New Campaign AdPosted on Dec 7, 2011
On Tuesday, Texas Gov. Rick Perry made a bigger gaffe than his debate choke from a few weeks ago with the release of his new ad, “Strong,” in which he frames President Obama’s repeal of the ban on gays serving openly in the military as “wrong” for faith-based reasons. Way to woo the Log Cabin Republicans, Gov. Perry. —KA YouTube: Advertisement TAGS:
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By Anarcissie, December 8, 2011 at 10:04 am Link to this comment
This sort of thing is one of the reasons I didn’t think Perry had much of a future in national politics. Apparently they’re more forgiving down in Texas.
Report thisBy Concerned Canuck, December 8, 2011 at 8:43 am Link to this comment
NSDPD should read NASDAP, my bad.
Report thisBy Concerned Canuck, December 8, 2011 at 8:38 am Link to this comment
Wow! This ad is of a quality and tone that good old’ Adolph and Dr. Gobbels would
Report thisapprove! I don’t make this comparison lightly: the tone is very similar to NSDPD
propaganda circa 1933. He’s identifying a minority as being one of the causes of
American decline. This is bigotry in it’s pure essence. This is hate speech that would land
his butt in jail up here in Canada. America, please don’t give into hate, the world needs
you!
By radicalfemme, December 8, 2011 at 7:21 am Link to this comment
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I imagine this sort of destructive rhetoric will play well to ideologically crippled Christians. Who feel there way of life is being threatened when they have to keep their religion in the church pew and everyone doesn’t pay homage to it. But, for the rest of us who are tired of religion even being in the political dialogue, it only puts Perry where he belongs. Nowhere!
Report thisBy Blueokie, December 8, 2011 at 12:52 am Link to this comment
Perry claims allegiance to a particularly pernicious sect of fundamentalism self-titled as Dominionists. Essentially chosen people that are clued in to God’s “plan” and thus everything they think and do is beyond question, and disagreeing with them is proof of your alliance with the “evil one”. Add this to the normal penchant of conservatives to ardently believe ideas with no relationship to empirical evidence, and you can come up with all manner of results.
“You wanted God’s ideas about what was best for you to coincide with your ideas, but you also wanted him to be the Creator of heaven and earth so that he could properly fulfill your wish. And yet, if he were to share your ideas, he would cease to be the Almighty Father” - Soren Kierkegaard
Report thisBy mrfreeze, December 8, 2011 at 12:39 am Link to this comment
I’m afraid 50+% of the American people actually believe in and agree with Mr. Perry…...which should be one of the scariest things one can imagine. We have become a nation of imbeciles and there’s no hope in sight.
Report thisBy Robespierre115, December 7, 2011 at 10:20 pm Link to this comment
Perry, if not the whole, perverted right-wing culture of this strain make no sense. How do gays openly serving in the army threaten in any way the right of someone to believe in Christianity, attend church etc.? Republicans like to condemn big government, but they don’t have a problem with throwing away the original philosophy of the Reformation and fusing the state with religion.
Report thisBy Outraged, December 7, 2011 at 9:48 pm Link to this comment
Unreal. I had to watch it twice to believe it.
“Obama’s war on religion”....???!!!
“Our kids can’t openly celebrate Christmas”....???!!!
So….Perry’s a candidate to be king of WHAT
Report thisplanet…? What a stooge.
By squeaky, December 7, 2011 at 8:19 pm Link to this comment
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Texas Gov. Rick Perry, is he really a Christian?
Report thisBy Chris, December 7, 2011 at 3:16 pm Link to this comment
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Let me get this straight:
Report thisPerry is trying to appeal to non-practicing right wing people who only have a vague memory of Judeo-Christian values, suggesting that love of neighbour and respect of others may not rank that high among the Christian virtues?
By gstoddard, December 7, 2011 at 2:12 pm Link to this comment
I have to admit that at times I become frustrated with the Democratic Party, but it
Report thisis ads like this that cause me to stay and continue the struggle against these
appeals to continue denying equal rights to the LBGT members of my family and
their friends.