Iowa-Nebraska NAACP leader endorses anti-gay Vander Plaats

[IADEMO2004]

http://www.oneiowa.org/news-events/extreme-right-watch-iowa-naacp-leader-endorses-anti-gay-vander-plaats

videos at link of Julian Bond and President Obama

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Rev. Keith Ratliff Sr., registered Democrat and president of the Iowa-Nebraska chapter of the NAACP announced his support for anti-gay Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob Vander Plaats on Monday. If elected, Vander Plaats has pledged to pass an executive order to halt the freedom to marry in Iowa, thereby disobeying Iowa law and operating beyond the powers of the Governor.

Ratliff's ties to Chuck Hurley and the extremist Iowa Family Policy Center are well documented, including their efforts to fund the Joshua Christian Academy, a private Christian school in Des Moines.

Just three months ago, President Obama addressed the NAACP calling for an end to discrimination, specifically mentioning his support for LGBT equality:

"On the 45th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, discrimination cannot stand. Not on account of color or gender, how you worship or who you love. Prejudice has no place in the United States of America. That's what the NAACP stands for. That's what the NAACP will continue to fight for as long as it takes."

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I hope this is just his personal endorsement and not the IA/NE NAACP. Time for a new president?

[Witan00]

1. Vander Plaats is a moron >_<

Lord knows, the threat of gays marrying is so dire that he has to pass an (illegal) executive order to DENY them their CIVIL RIGHTS.

[47of74]

2. Hopefully he and Braindead will be getting into some nasty primary fights

[rurallib]

7. celebrity death match style I hope.

I'd pay to see that.

[4dsc]

3. Blacks are really homophobic..

And I don't know why.

[Witan00]

5. Yeah. The irony in that is depressing. n/t

[Peacetrain]

6. Bull Hockey

Asshats come in all colors.

[progressoid]

4. "...people who'd been discriminated for the color of their skin, could come together

to discriminate against people for their sexual orientation without the slightest sense of irony." - Wyatt Cenac on the Daily Show.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-january-12-2010/dreaded-bliss