Okay, I thought I was an informed, educated adult.

WTF is the House Prayer Caucus?  Is it some kind of official committee?  If so, isn’t that mixing church and state?  Am I nuts?  What is going on up there?  With all the business congress has to attend to in this country, they seriously made a prayer caucus?  Can’t they pray on their own?  Do they get paid while they are doing this?

The hard working families of ...our nation deserve a commitment to education, economic opportunity, civil rights, personal freedoms and the safe, clean environment that we all want for our families.

Yes. Exactly. And as a queer blue-collar pagan with four kids, I demand all of those!

Let the Rep come on a ride-along with me for work. I do a 10 hour day, driving and unloading a semi. Then he can tell me how hard-working I’m not.

Let him write 7 novels and two dozen short stories. Let him make 4 afghans a year. Then he can tell me I’m not achieving.

Let him come to church with me. The next ritual is Samhain. And he can tell me I don’t believe in God. (I believe in more gods than he does!)

Most of all, let him see my bisexual daughter and my other children and tell them we aren’t a real family and none of us should be able to marry who we want.

In short, my existence disproves him on all points. We are a real family, with Real Family Valuses.

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Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

“WTF is the House Prayer Caucus?”

Based on what I read at the link above, they are a group of people who like to waste their time while our country struggles through one of its worst eras.

My response to his original statement was “No, Congressman, but we might hate you.”

MikeEss:  ohhh, SNAP!!!  You go, bro!

“Liberals are advocating higher taxes, which I believe punish success — and they are advocating policies like gay marriage that I feel undermine strong families.”

Oh yes.  Gay marriage is doing way more harm to the family than, say, high unemployment, working 3 crappy jobs (if you can find them) to barely make ends meet, sickness, lack of affordable health care, underfunded education, little or no access to family planning in many parts of the country.  NONE of those is as stressful on a family as two men or women getting married somewhere in the country.  Nope.

The absolute disconnect with these people is staggering.

It’s like coming out of a long trudge through a fog.
For years, we’ve been hearing people bash liberals, gays, feminists, pretty much anyone who isn’t an upper class white hetero. Rep. man. 
Suddenly, the media is discovering how disgusting statements like this are.  They can barely believe their tender ears.  Makes me question where they have been all these years. 
I’m glad to hear them now, but people like Rep. Hayes or the Rep. from Minn. are probably wondering, “Wha-?  I’m just talkin’ family values like we’ve been talkin’ for the last 20 years.  What’s the big deal all of a sudden?  Nobody was so mean to man-on-dog Santorum!”
Have the scales newly fallen from their eyes?  Has the economy frightened them so much that they are finally willing to call the “right” on their b.s. and hatefulness?

Oh, don’t worry INTPagen, they’ll get around to outlawing your relationship soon enough.

IF we don’t CRUSH THEM.

My brother and his husband don’t undermine my family, you dick.  They are PART OF IT.

Yawgmoth—They’re part of America, too.

My father, who isn’t remotely liberal, said that Robin Hayes is the slimiest, most dishonest, scumbag politician he knew and that in any given election he would vote for ANYONE who was running against Hayes.

So, that’s one vote for Larry Kissell