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Gov. Perry was speaking at a barbecue in Temple, Texas, and he asked those in the crowd to make a decision. “Would you rather live in a state like this, or in a state where a man can marry a man?”
– From Michael Jones’s piece at Change.org.
Is this what it’s come down to? The hypocrisy fest is plumb out of control today.
No word on whether he took an empty beer can and crushed it on his forehead afterwards.The Texas GOP platform made national news earlier this year, when it came to light that the official Republican Party position in the Lone Star state is not only against marriage equality, but in favor of arresting gay people solely because of their sexual orientation. How very …. Uganda of them.
But Gov. Perry’s latest missive isn’t his first foray into gay baiting for votes. Take a look at the script of a robocall that his campaign ran last November, when Gov. Perry was running in a primary election against current Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson.
“With the president making homosexuality a protected class by signing the hate crimes bill, and Congress poised to vote on socialized health care, do you feel it is critical for more people to earnestly pray for our leaders? If yes, press 1. If no, press 2,” the robocall said. I’m guessing it left off the “Press 3 if you’d like to vomit at this type of politics” option.
UPDATE: Thanks to Blender Stewart Price for the below audio of Perry’s numnut remarks.
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The worst!He is the worst! I’m a 5th generation Texan, live here in Austin, and work downtown. I hiss at the Governor’s mansion everytime I drive by. Of course Perry is over by the lake in his $9,000 a month tax paid “temporary” housing. The mansion was burned a while back by arson during renovations. I can’t believe this guy is going to get re-elected. Just your typical right-wing hatemonger…and that works here in Texas. GRRRRRRRR
Weren’t they going to secede?What’s the holdup, here? Go!
(If you’ve seen this post under another link I clicked some time ago, I think PHB is just a little too ‘feature-laden’ atm. ) :)
Governor Perry, Meet James ConnollyIf you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!
James Connolly
They will never secedebecause German Foreign Minister Zimmerman in a telegram promised them to Mexico, and Mexico might be intereested
No, they’ll never secedeCause their rhetoric is a lie and they’re the ones on the gravy train, not the rest of America.
Sure are willing to pretend, though, ain’t they?
Well…I would be perfectly happy to see Mexico take them back.
Well, I’d rather live where a man can marry a man, butwith better BBQ than we have here…
How about not?Honestly, hate for the South and Texas on the left is the equivalent of the hate of Islam on the right. Just as ridiculous and short sighted. Just like there are a lot of good Muslims who hate what the extremists have twisted their culture and religion into, there are a lot of progressives and Democrats in the South who hate the mockery fundies have made of us. We are trying to change things down here, but having the people on ‘our side’ who can’t see that is making it difficult to get anything done.
When is HE coming out?
Gov. Perry, I would rather live in a state where a man can marry a manHow kind of you to ask.
I’m not sure sure Mexico would be thrilled at the idea n/t
Islam isn’t responsible for… reelecting hard-core right wing Dominionists to high political office again and again and again and again.
Sometimes, criticism actually is deserved.
Some other tidbits from Rick Perry’s Wikipedia pagePerry has supported Texas schools teaching creationism and “intelligent design” alongside evolution. A spokeswoman for Perry called intelligent design a “valid scientific theory,” despite its being rejected by the orthodox scientific community and at least one federal judge.
Perry does not believe the science behind anthropogenic global warming.
After a tea party protest held on April 15, 2009, Perry responded to a reporter’s question about secession, saying, “Texas is a unique place. When we came into the union in 1845, one of the issues was that we would be able to leave if we decided to do that… My hope is that America and Washington in particular pays attention. We’ve got a great union. There’s absolutely no reason to dissolve it. But if Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people, who knows what may come of that.”
In its April 2010 report, ethics watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington named Perry one of 11 “worst governors” in the United States because of various ethics issues throughout Perry’s term as governor.[85][86][87] Some of Perry’s ethics lapses cited by the watchdog include:
* Allegedly disregarded campaign finance laws and aided a business that was especially generous to his campaign
* Refused to operate transparently, and has blocked access to information related to a death penalty case
* Rejected federal stimulus funds in a manner that appeared to put partisan politics ahead of the interests of the citizens of Texas
* Has perpetuated the revolving door between government and special interests
* Accepted travel and campaign donations from a business that received benefits from his official actions
* Used campaign funds for a personal trip with questionable relevance to his campaign for office
We don’t hate Texas, just the fact that the majority appear to be traitorsWe deplore the secessionist threats and the jingoism that underlies the statements of Governor Perry and his supporters who, like it or not, make up the majority of this hotbed of treason and pour poison into the body politic with alarming frequency.
They give comfort to our enemies, making a “determined, unified America” a joke, they incite our opponents in Afghanistan to kill ever more of our fighting men while threatening to bring down the Constitution and Government that those men and women serve. All too often, they are overtly racist and covertly racist the remainder of the time
I am forever reminded of an editorial in the Saturday Evening Post written by a Mr Irving Cobb in 1916 as I listen to Governor Perry and his Domionist yet Islamist supporting cohorts cohorts:
“I waited until he lowered his guard for a precious moment, and then I wrested myself free and fled, leaving him still rendering a favourite selection of airs on the Anglo-Saxophone.” Irving Cobb
It’s not really surprisingthat in the wake of Kenny Bud Mehlman’s coming out, the other closeted hypocrites in the Republican party are scrambling to beef up their credentials as anti-intellectual, bigoted good ol’ boys. There was a lot of speculation from the touchy-feely crowd that Mehlman would in some nebulous way inspire others to come out. There was never much chance of that. Mehlman’s career in politics is over; the rest are still selling their souls for the votes of the ignorant-and-proud-of-it. I’m fully expecting L. Graham and M. McConnell to follow Crist and Perry sometime real soon now.
video missingPerry must have gotten to YouTube – The video won’t load
Private Cowboyhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v…
This still gets to me.For decades now you haven’t been able to turn a page in academia (especially in the humanities) without running into some conservative or another wailing about how liberals and socialists (and, well, basically everyone to the left of the Birchers) were ruining the world with all that damned “post-modernism” that denied reality and meant moral relativism. Yet these days the whole right two-thirds of the political spectrum is based on “relativism” — but with regards to not just ethics but facts. As far as the right is concerned, there’s no such thing as reality — just opinions, and whoever screams the loudest and pushes their opinion the most violently gets to rule.
I wonder when Travis County is going to secede from the rest of Texas.
So all 50+ of my TEXAS fb friends… are lying?or they're straight and just get a kick out of claiming they are gay?
Ironically, he lives in a state where a lesbian is mayor of one of the cities.
Oh, keyboard alert!! HOOT!
And where a denomination of LGBT Christians makes its homeThe Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches has its international headquarters in Abilene. And the Cathedral of Hope, once a part of MCC and now affiliated with the United Church of Christ, is a church with more than 4000 members, most of whom are gay or lesbian; Cathedral of Hope is now the fourth largest congregation in the UCC denomination.
Lots of irony here, most of which Governor Perry is too ignorant to see.
As Kinky Friedman said about the Texas Governorship“How hard can it be?” He also said “Kinky for Governor. Why the hell not?”
Texas is definitely a yin/yang state. We have both Willie Nelson and Governor “Good Hair”, who doesn’t much have a thought in his pretty little head. Bless his itty bitty little ole heart.
The governorship of Texas doesn’t require all that much, Georgie was governor before Hair Perry. We have a tendency to pick some idiot to run it and hope he doesn’t accomplish much of anything other than not getting caught in bed with a dead woman or a live man.
Our standards are pretty low.
In Texas Politics are sports.
Religion is politics.
Sports are religion.
And we have some of the best music in the country in an extremely diverse state where Dallas and I believe Austin have anti discrimination laws that are supposed to protect TS/TG folks along with the L/G folks. Houston has a lesbian mayor.
And once upon a time we were Democratic and elected folks like LBJ, Ann Richards and Lloyd Benson.
We could do it again.
BTWAround the LGBT/T community Governor Good Hair is called “Hair Fairy” Perry and rumor has it he’s another GOP closet case.
A little bit about Texas“Today it has more Fortune 500 companies than any other U.S. state.[12][13] With a growing base of industry, the state leads in many industries, including agriculture, petrochemicals, energy, computers and electronics, aerospace, and biomedical sciences. It leads the nation in export revenue since 2002 and has the second-highest gross state product.”
“The Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston metropolitan areas number about 6.3 million and 5.7 million residents, respectively. Three interstate highways – I-35 to the west (Dallas-Fort Worth to San Antonio, with Austin in between), I-45 to the east (Dallas to Houston), and I-10 to the south (San Antonio to Houston) define the Texas Urban Triangle region. The region of 60,000 square miles (160,000 km2) contains most of the state’s largest cities and metropolitan areas as well as 17 million people, nearly 75 percent of Texas’s total population.[122] Dallas and Houston have been recognized as beta world cities.”
“As of 2008, Texas had a gross state product (GSP) of $1.224 trillion, the second highest in the U.S.[141][142] Its GSP is comparable to the GDP of India or Canada which are ranked 12th and 11th worldwide. Texas’s economy is the third largest in the world of country subdivisions behind California and Tokyo Prefecture. Its Per Capita personal income in 2007 was $37,083, ranking 22nd in the nation. Texas’s large population, abundance of natural resources, and diverse population and geography have led to a large and diverse economy. Since oil was discovered, the state’s economy has reflected the state of the petroleum industry. In recent times, urban centers of the state have increased in size, containing two-thirds of the population in 2005. The state’s economic growth has led to urban sprawl and its associated symptoms.[143]
As of January 2010, the states unemployment rate is 8.2%.”
Do you really think Mexico would have a problem taking us back?
There are a lot of Progressives here in Texas – we are held back by the way some folks stamp everyone and everything in Texas as Republican, backward, “good-old-boy”, or “redneck” – without knowing ANYTHING about the State.
Dallas has a mostly Democratic administration – the Dallas County Sheriff is a Latina out lesbian. She was elected, and re-elected.
Do you still want to get rid of us ALL?
We do have a long way to go — but, at least we have a tradition of judging folks by what they do – all this super-religious crap has been laid on top of old traditions.
All the stuff thrown our way by those who also tend to live in glass houses doesn’t help anyone.
No, I wouldn’t want to send all of you away.But I would like to know why a state that once elected Ann Richards cannot repeat the trick…
Not hate for all Texans or all SouthernersI want Texas to leave the United States because I want the United States to be split up into a minimum of four or five different independent nations.
It’s not just that in certain sections of the country, a majority of citizens genuinely crave to live under a totalitarian government.
It’s primarily because the United States has so much military and economic power. Around the world, that power is almost never used for good ends, and it needs to be drastically diminished by breaking the country up into pieces.