MN Tea'Bagger Candidate: "Rosa Parks didn’t move to the front of the bus to support sodomy"

[Emit]

White on same-sex marriage: Rosa Parks didn’t ‘move to the front of the bus to support sodomy’

By Andy Birkey

For the first time in Minnesota history, a legislative committee contemplated the legalization of same-sex marriage in the state on Monday. And while gay and lesbian families shared moving testimony about the hardships their families face because they cannot marry, a duo of congressional candidates stole the show with controversial commentary on gays and lesbians.

Barb Davis White, a Tea Party activist and Republican candidate for Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District, prompted shocked gasps from the packed hearing room when she said, “Rosa Parks did not move to the front of the bus to support sodomy.” Her testimony involved accusations that the movement for marriage equality is hijacking the civil rights movement.

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“I’m here today to tell you that homosexuality and lesbian behavior is unhealthy,” claiming that gays and lesbians have higher rates of STDs than anyone else in the world, including “gay bowel disease,” an ailment that does not exist and is often used by religious right figures to paint gay men as diseased.

Another congressional candidate, St. Thomas University law professor Teresa Stanton Collett, who is running as a Republican for the 4th Congressional District, warned that Minnesota’s Christians are under attack.

“Make no mistake: Marriage, as a civil institution, as a legal institution, is grounded not merely in religion but also in the biological reality that sex makes children and children need a mom and a dad,” she said. “And should we choose to redefine that legally we will put the religious and moral beliefs of all Minnesotans at issue.”

“Churches and religiously affiliated institutions will lose their tax-exempt status,” she said...

http://minnesotaindependent.com/55645/barb-davis-white-gay-marriage-rosa-parks

[krispos42]

1. ...

[Emit]

3. lol!

That was me about, um, 25 minutes ago.

[Lilyeye]

2. WTF!

[sakabatou]

15. My sentiments indeed.

[rpannier]

4. The leap is rather bizarre

Gay marriage will lead to Churches and religiously affiliated institutions will lose their tax-exempt status

Wow

:wtf: :shrug:

[Lasher]

6. It is such a leap that it left me wondering what the connection is supposed to be.

[TankLV]

21. We can only HOPE SO!!!

we can dream for that day to come - SOON!!!

[Caliman73]

5. Rosa parks never moved to the front of the bus...period.

She merely refused to give up her seat in the middle of the bus so that some bigoted White person could sit there. That is what all civil rights are about. Gay people don't want special treatment. They aren't asking to be given anything different than what anyone else is getting. They aren't demanding a seat at the front. They are simply asking not to be forced to move so that some bigoted heterosexual can take their seat.

The second idiot is right about one thing, marriage is a civil and legal institution and as such should not be reserved only for one class of citizens. The rest of her spewage is just stupid. You can make children perfectly fine without marriage. It happens more and more in society so the argument that marriage is necessary for procreation is bullshit. Marriage is about civilly and legally defining your relationship to ensure access to financial, medical, and legal statuses accorded to the exclusive relationship between consenting adults.

Finally, children need loving parents who can attend to their needs, it doesn't matter what their gender is. I would rather have two moms or dads who spend time with me and understand and care for me, than to have a mom and a dad who treat me like shit. Gender is the least important factor in good parenting.

Churches should lose their tax exempt status. The interference of churches in the political arena and the use of the pulpit as a way to sway politics is written into the tax code and churches have repeatedly and more frequently broken the rules. They are not places where people go to reaffirm their relationship to their deity, they are now, more than ever, placed where political indoctrination takes place.

[Jamastiene]

7. Rosa Parks didn't move. Period.

"gay bowel disease" ???

No such thing. :wtf:

[Zoeisright]

8. So it's okay to deny people rights for the right of FANTASY??

That's what this asshole is saying. If something about you offends my fantasy life, you can't have equal rights.

Glad to see the putrid repuke finally said it out loud.

[old mark]

9. Churches...will lose their tax-exempt status..." Would be about time -

they are so outrageous in their abuse of it and are obviously for-profit. As long as we are going to use reconciliation, let's pass this, too.
Tax the churches - lower the deficit.

mark

[Vinca]

11. +1 Long overdue.

[calimary]

23. That would actually be a good thing.

We could use the money, and if they're gonna meddle in politics they ought to pay for the privilege like everybody else does.

[Dappleganger]

10. OMG!!!

ITS TEH GAY BOWEL DISEASE...EVERYBODY RUNNNNNNNNNN11!!!1!1!


:rofl:

[YOY]

12. Damn right! She did it for the sake of man on woman multi-racial doggie style!

n/t

[Mister Ed]

13. And Washington didn't cross the Delaware to fight the Nazis

I wonder if he thinks that means they shouldn't have been fought.

:dunce:

[KingFlorez]

14. Uh, what

Not only does Barb have the story wrong, the analogy makes no sense.

[malaise]

16. WTF??????

Should I laugh or cry

[Bluenorthwest]

17. Another liar standing with the Christians and anti equality crowd

bearing false witness and slandering their neighbors as they like to do in the name of their God. Hypocrites and liars on parade.

[Hugabear]

18. I bet you some of these dumb-fucks are guilty of sodomy themselves

I wonder how many of these tea-bagging idiots engage in anal sex with their significant others. If so, they're guilty of sodomy.

[OHdem10]

19. My DUers, I love you but you must understand it does not matter

whether the statements are fact or true. This person
knew one thing I can win the argument on emotion.

As Liberals we get hung up on Process and accuracy and
the other side cleans our clock.

Someone I cannot remember who once said it looks like
Liberals are more concerned with being correct than
winning. In Politics most often it is more about creating
perceptions. In Politics--Perception is reality.

In the 2000 election, handmade flyers were put out all
over the state of Kentucky which read: John Kerry will
take away your Bibles and permit men to marry . There
is no fact or truth to this, but you better believe this
brought people to the polls in droves to vote Republican.

This legislator was not concerned about Rosa Parks, the
concern was stoking fires on hot button issue.

[pipi_k]

20. "Gay bowel disease"??????

bwahahahahahahha!!!!!!!!!!!!!



I wonder if Pepto Bismol takes care of that.


Indigestion
Diarrhea
Constipation
Gay Bowel Disease


:rofl:

[RFKHumphreyObama]

22. I'm also quite sure she didn't engage in the actions that she did

So she could be mis-characterized by racist tea-baggers who have no problem invoking her name while waving placards depicting an African-American President in racially offensive terms

[marmar]

24. So Rosa Parks was worried about anal sex when she refused to give up her seat?

They've really gone off the deep end.....