Posted on 06/11/2014 1:43:25 PM PDT by Lorianne
“Given how savagely anti-gay the mainstream Oklahoma Republican party is”
More BS from the enlightened elite crowd known as journalists.
Well, if he said it, that's good enough for me./S
See Robert Sarvis....
With comments like this from this guy (if they are true) Muslims have a much better chance at a foothold here.
I’ve met a few gays that acted like they were stoned.... Is that the same?
Sarvis wasn't a plant, he was the official libertarian nominated candidate.
With five candidates in the race it's unlikely any of them can claim to be THE Tea Party candidate, especially not for State Rep.
Or even A Tea Party candidate -- isn't the Tea Party about federal, rather than state, politics?
Not that that's going to stop anybody who has an axe to grind.
More here.
FWIW, you can see how opinion gets shaped here. The Tea Party was supposed to be about economic and fiscal issues. Enough guys like Scott Esk get labelled Tea Partiers, and the media (the people who've done the labelling) can say, "Look, it was all about the gays and social issues, not budgets and spending and economics!" I don't know what the Tea Party is "really" about, but you can see the framing and slight of hand that produces a conclusion that the media wants to make.
Mark Joseph Stern is a graduate of Georgetown University, where he double majored in History and Art History. During his time at Georgetown, Mark was a frequent contributor to Slate Magazine. His work has also appeared in the Wall Street Journal and the Denver Post. Next year, Mark will be attending law school at the Georgetown University Law Center.
Slate LGBT contributor, Mark Joseph Stern, is worried about a new genre of homophobia, to which he refers ad “Gay Denialism”. People like anti-gay religious philosopher Michael W. Hannon, who claims that there are no gay people- only gay sex.
Doesn't matter if he said it or not.
My comment was a reaction to this:
. . . it’s no surprise that the state’s Tea Partiers are so rabidly hateful that they come across more as dark satire than as serious bigots.
See post 65, Sarvis was no plant.
OK tv? The UK-based entertainment and gossip channel??
I won't believe it until I see it on "Entertainment Tonight." /S
He was bankrolled by Texas Democrats
I am insulted that the FDA considers itself a nanny who thinks she has the responsibility of telling us whether or not anything we might put in our body is good for us or not.
In the immortal words of Sgt. Hulka, "Lighten up, Francis."
Georgetown College 2013, Georgetown Law 2016
In a sentence, slam your writing at Slate: Overwrought, underdeveloped rants that veer schizophrenically between the irksome poles of grating outrage and glib mawkishness.
What’s the best published piece you’ve ever written? Kansas’ Anti-Gay Segregation Bill Is an Abomination
The fact is that Sarvis was the official and nominated libertarian candidate, he was NOT a plant.
People who like it when the libertarians cost the GOP seats can donate to those campaigns if they wish, just as a conservative can donate to an official Green Party candidate if it is useful.
Words have the power to discredit otherwise worthy endeavors ... words can bury a good cause even if said jokingly.
He may have been the official Libertarian Party candidate, but if you looked at his positions, he really was not a Libertarian at all, which is why Ron Paul endorsed Cucinelli. Sarvis was for carbon taxes on cars! The guy was a Democrat, financed by Democrats, running under the Libertarian ticket as a spoiler candidate. The same thing unfolded in the Montana senate race in 2012 with another jerk
What a jerk. And what about the billions of bearded savages who already do this?
The author is upset over ONE idiot who proposes doing it.
The savages already do it.
Oh rats, I thought you had really found something until I clicked on your link.
Anything on who is bankrolling Esk?
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