Paul Ryan as VP Would Match Mitt Romney on Homophobia
Paul Ryan has voted to ban same-sex marriage and adoption by gay couples, and he voted against repealing the “don’t ask, don’t tell” ban on gays serving openly in the military.
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- Romney supports amending the U.S. Constitution to ban same-sex marriage. And Ryan twice voted in support of the failed Federal Marriage Amendment in 2004 and 2006.
- As a U.S. representative for Wisconsin’s first congressional district, Ryan was more recently faced with a ballot question in his home state on whether to ban marriage equality. He again lined up against marriage equality when asked about the iniative during a February appearance on Meet the Press.
- In 2003, Ryan voted in favor of the Marriage Protection Act, which would have prevented federal courts from considering and possibly overturning the Defense of Marriage Act. Romney also backs DOMA.
- Ryan voted in 1999 in favor of banning same-sex couples from adopting in the District of Columbia, over which Congress often exerts control.
- Ryan also lined up with Romney on repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell” when it came before Congress in 2011.
- When the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act passed through the House in 2009, Ryan voted against it.
- Ryan received a 0 percent rating on gay rights by Human Rights Campaign and 91 percent by the Christian Coalition of America (source)
The cost of taking part in creating history is always staggeringly high for people. But that taking part is the very spice of human life.
One of the great frustrations faced by science writers is that, more often than not, we’re preaching to the choir. People who really need to be exposed to critical scientific information regarding homosexuality are, frankly, either too unintelligent to understand the research or—more unforgivably—they’re perfectly smart enough, it’s just that they’re too incurious about the deep complexities of human psychology to bother to learn. Now, for many subject areas in science, such cognitive dullards and intellectual sloths are easy to ignore, even when they display remarkable naivete. To be unaware of the chemical composition of water, for instance, is certainly sad, but such ignorance is usually pretty harmless. But with a basic scientific understanding of sexual orientation, ignorance can be sinister. Knowledge may not trump hatred in all cases, but for most reasonable individuals, it tends to facilitate humanity.
When people say it’s a stupid, superficial thing to avoid eating at Chik-Fil-A just because you disagree with the politics of the higher-ups, I assume those people don’t realize Chik-Fil-A profits are pumped into organizations that literally support legislation to execute gay people.
When people are actively spreading bigotry, it’s not superficial to take your business elsewhere.
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Source: coelasquid
Is it just me, or did the Chick-Fil-A “Appreciation Day” demographic skew distinctly
- white;
- old;
- overweight; and
- right-wing?
BREAKING: Prop 8 proponents ask Supreme Court to review case
“QUESTION PRESENTED: Whether the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits the State of California from defining marriage as the union of a manand a woman.”
If the Court takes this case, and the petitioners win, the result will be a catastrophe.
Read the petition at the link above. We’ll know by early October if the Supreme Court chooses to hear the case.
This could get very interesting.
Meet Queen Elizabeth’s skydiving stunt double
“I think they liked my legs”
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Source: MSN
We show the brutal and cruel side of the government. We don’t do something illegal. It’s not illegal, singing and saying what you think.
“Squirrel”, of the Russian feminist punk rock collective Pussy Riot, three of whose members are currently political prisoners of the Putin regime in Russia. (source)
WE ARE NOT AMUSED.
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth attends the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium July 27, 2012. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach
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