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Binkie The Clown

(7,911 posts)
Thu Apr 30, 2015, 01:00 PM Apr 2015

NOT the onion. The cause of the Baltimore troubles is...

[font size=5]Texas GOP lawmaker: ‘What is going on in Baltimore’ is because of too many gay marriages[/font]

[font size=4]R[/font]epublican U.S. House Representative Bill Flores of Texas argued this week that violence in Baltimore could be linked to the legalization of same-sex marriage in the United States.

On the Wednesday edition of the Family Research Council’s Washington Watch radio program, Flores told FRC President Tony Perkins that crowds of conservatives were showing up at the U.S. Supreme Court to urge justices to support the “rights of tradition marriage.”

Perkins suggested that the government was just creating more problems for itself as courts throughout the nation continued to rule that LGBT people should have equal marriage rights.


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NOT the onion. The cause of the Baltimore troubles is... (Original Post) Binkie The Clown Apr 2015 OP
.... diabeticman Apr 2015 #1
But of course.Can you not see the link? sufrommich Apr 2015 #2
'Post hoc ergo propter hoc' immoderate Apr 2015 #3
“rights of tradition marriage." I don't happen to be Gay but if I were Gay, I'd certainly want.. BlueJazz Apr 2015 #4
Riiiight. Because Maryland was the first state to recognize them. KamaAina Apr 2015 #5
Yep, all my fault. Thanks BeeBee! n/t BeeBee Apr 2015 #6
 

immoderate

(20,885 posts)
3. 'Post hoc ergo propter hoc'
Thu Apr 30, 2015, 01:07 PM
Apr 2015

"Could be linked." As in "I hereby declare these things linked!"

Freepers can believe anything.

--imm

 

BlueJazz

(25,348 posts)
4. “rights of tradition marriage." I don't happen to be Gay but if I were Gay, I'd certainly want..
Thu Apr 30, 2015, 01:08 PM
Apr 2015

...the option of
1.Cheating on my spouse
2.Flirting with the next door guy
3. Divorcing my spouse for...oh...I don't know...ah..I'm tired of him.
4. Treat him like shit.
5. Beat him

....and a lot more...Just like regular "Traditional Marriage."

 

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
5. Riiiight. Because Maryland was the first state to recognize them.
Thu Apr 30, 2015, 01:09 PM
Apr 2015

Oh, wait, that was Massachusetts. Well, it is right below Maryland in alphabetical order.

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