Sen. Vincent J. Fumo, D-Philadelphia
(The D-Philadelphia is all you need to know.)
Posted on 05/01/2008 5:20:34 AM PDT by Impy
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A state senator told a black pastor testifying at a committee hearing that, given the chance to cast secret ballots, his fellow legislators would vote to legalize slavery.
Sen. Vincent J. Fumo, D-Philadelphia, made the comments Tuesday during a hearing on a Republican-sponsored bill to amend the state Constitution to outlaw same-sex marriages and civil unions, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported on its Web site Wednesday.
“What you are advocating here is that we take away the rights of a minority. And I don’t think that’s right,” Fumo, a staunch defender of gay rights, told the witness, Gilbert Coleman Jr., senior pastor of Freedom Christian Bible Fellowship in Philadelphia.
He added, “If we introduced a bill on slavery, it might pass. That doesn’t make it right.”
Coleman, who was testifying in favor of the measure, responded: “I doubt that sir.” “Oh, don’t bet on it in this General Assembly,” Fumo countered. “I know some people up here, especially on a secret ballot, it would be almost unanimous.”
Fumo declined to comment Wednesday, but said he would release a statement through his spokesman later in the day.
Fumo, who is white, is in his last months in office after a 30-year career as a state senator. He decided not to seek re-election because of pending federal corruption charges that accuse him of using his state staff for personal and outside work.
The Senate Appropriations Committee could vote on the gay marriage measure as early as Monday.
A committee member, Sen. Pat Browne, R-Lehigh, said Fumo lost control of his emotions.
Asked whether Fumo owes an apology to his fellow lawmakers, Browne said, “If he is serious about those comments, then yes he does.”
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DU agrees with Fumo and wants to own “white Republicans” to do yard work. Real classy.
No one has a right to be married.
Punishment: Put him in a room with Michelle Obama and lock
the door!
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Can he name a SINGLE right that is denied homosexuals?
So hand over your "Tax" dollars cheerfully or else you'll be put in irons!!!!
Sen. Vincent J. Fumo, D-Philadelphia,
The D-Philadelphia is all you need to know.
These activists get more outrageous everyday.
No wonder Pennsylvania is such a mess. What else can they expect when they keep a moron like this to office for 30 yers?
Democrats have always supported slavery. ‘Cept now the plantations are the cities.
Fumo did not run for reelection. He is currently under federal indictment on corruption and racketeering charges.
In a lot of the cities where they live, they're not allowed to own guns, but it's not because they're gay.
Freud believed that verbal slips come from repressed desires.
I say, a fox smells his own azz first.
BTTT
Sen. Vincent J. Fumo, D-Philadelphia
(The D-Philadelphia is all you need to know.)
And, if my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle.
Double secret probation
Forcing a subordinate staff member to become your personal servant is as close to slavery as we have in this day and age. Seems as though he is projecting his own thoughts and feelings to his peers.
Your post will soon be deleted due to that a-word. My #1 post was even though I left out the ss and used a 0 and 1 instead of ol.
I should have been more clear. Can ANYONE name a right that is denied to homosexuals that is not denied to heterosexuals?
“vote to legalize slavery.”
Only if they smoke.
None. We heterosexual men can’t marry each other either.
Possibly cruel. Definitely unusual! ;-)
I return to SE Pa. on a regular basis and Philadelphia has become the self described “San Francisco gay mecca” of the East.
The politicians there are quite proud of it.
Look at how they are treating the Boy Scouts.
Every ballot cast that supports tax increases, is a vote for further enslaving the electorate.
Guy tells the truth once in his life and he gets criticized, and you wonder why these politicians don't ever tell the truth.
Thats for sure.
Besides, no one is taking away anything. THOSE people never that the “right” to begin with.
Kick all the morons out of office and you would depopulate Congress and the legislatures in most of the 50 states.
Fumo might be right to some degree. The Dems— the party of Sheets Byrd and Planned Parenthood — have the majority in the State House.
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Exactly.
Homosexuals have EXACTLY the same rights to marry another person as heterosexuals.
My favorite is the hospital visitation sham, I am still waiting for someone to give me the name of a single hospital anywhere in the country that prohibits a homosexual’s partner from visiting.
ROFL ... he used his staff as slaves. No WONDER he thinks that way. Just another RAT, projecting again.
“No one has a right to be married.”
Yes, they do. Just because a right is not listed in the Constitution does not mean that it does not exist. It says so in the Constitution itself. The Constitution does not say that you have the right to have children, or the right to buy land, or the right to own property, or the right to live in any state you choose, but those rights undoubtedly exist.
However, the states have the power to recognize or not recognize marriages based on what the states laws and constitutions say.
O well. The Senator is still the east end of a westbound horse.
I know that. This is what prompted mu remark: "Fumo, who is white, is in his last months in office after a 30-year career as a state senator."
Best idea I hve heard in years. [no sarcasm]
Not legally sanctioning same sex loving equals holding other human beings as slaves
And they wonder why we call them “Drama Queens”
Well stated.
Fumo, a staunch defender of gay rights...is shown here. I'd also call him a lying sack of elephant dung.
Yes, they do. Just because a right is not listed in the Constitution does not mean that it does not exist.
So, if you propose to a woman and she says "no", is she violating your right to be married?
They already passed that law. It is called the Income Tax Code.
Slavery is just very poor economics.
But it is a natural outgrowth of the government, or some elite group, assuming full responsibility for the welfare of individuals, dictating their actions from birth to where, when and how they shall die.
Trouble with slavery is, that the individual placed in the box at a very early age, who does not fit the mold, keeps breaking the expectations. These are the individuals that either cause society as a whole to advance, and bring higher and higher levels of civilization to the world, or they break the existing society and take everybody back to a state of far less reliance on the accrued wisdom of the ages, essentially destroying the accomplishments and grandeur of the past.
Is there slavery today? Yes. Every illegal immigrant who pours over into a neighboring country today is essentially bonding himself or herself out at indenture, voluntary or otherwise. Human trafficking all over the world keeps houshold help, sexual objects and poorly compensated individuals tied to a position that often is FAR less then their potential and the world is the poorer for that artificial constraint.
A state senator told a black pastor testifying at a committee hearing that, given the chance to cast secret ballots, his fellow legislators would vote to legalize slavery.
We are all enslaved to the government. But I don’t think we will overcome.
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