It’s not just lesbians who are being open about their sexuality at Tea Parties. A reader sends this picture from Philadelphia where he protested excessive government spending at the Tea Party there.
We’re out, we’re proud and we’re agitating against spendthrift budgets and for freedom!
It was either going to be that or “Faggot for Freedom!”
Republican Congressman booed at Tea Party. So much for the myth of these things being partisan stunts.
He must be a self-hating homo – a stooge for the religious right.
(Just trying to be first ’cause you know that’s coming).
Republicans/christian/conservatives, I think we have to clear our name. The democrats have told the gays we hate them and that is not true. We want everyone to prosper and be free and we believe to have that we must follow the values and principles to achieve it. Not be a christian and follow the values and principles, if that was the case what about all the other religions? They wouldn’t be Americans? Some Christians don’t understand that, but are coming around. They don’t like being attacked either. I just think we have to stop putting politics in everything. But the democrats/progressives have now put marriage on trial. We should of not have been in this position. We should of had civil unions or what ever for gays when they first started coming out, we need to be the leader on all issues not just when we are down and out. We cannot be silent any more, and I don’t mean judging either. We must want a safe, fair, lawful country for everyone.
How did people react to your sign?
Um—same pose, sign over more to the right, and shirtless–there you go–
#2 – V, serves the S.O.B. right. I hope the Tea Party crowds do it to every GOP Establishment “moderate” or “progressive” leader who has been supporting a big-spending Big Government all this time, complete with bailouts, but who now wants to pretend, laughably, that they are somehow “fiscal conservatives” who own the Tea Party movement.
P.S. I understand that Barrett is considered to be a conservative by some, but I always say, “Conservative is as conservative does”. Bush wasn’t a real conservative, a discussion we’ve had many times on this blog. And Barrett voted for TARP… the new working definition of “not a fiscal conservative”. ‘Nuff said.
(i.e., Bush wasn’t a fiscal conservative… that’s a better way to say it)
#6: Agreed, ILC. All of this will come to nothing unless it includes showing RINOs like Specter, Collins, Snow, etc. the door. And the Left knows it. That’s why they are terrified of Rush and Palin, but roll out the red carpet for David Frum and Meghan McCain (and why the NYT picked John McCain to be our Presidential candidate). If the GOP doesn’t get with the program and soundly reject the foolhardly plan of making the Republican Party more “moderate,” then it will remain the impotent, unprincipled, unelectable organization that it resembles now. The MSM is fueling the pressure on the GOP to keep moving left and they won’t stop until the party is perceived as too liberal for conservative voters, and as usual, too hateful and evil for liberal voters. That’s the plan. The fact that the Left and the MSM go ballistic every time Rush or Palin open their mouths (or when a million true conservatives publicly protest) PROVES that the path to relevance and victory is for the GOP to return to the uncompromising, unapologetic promotion of conservative principles (and disciplined adherence thereto). It has worked EVERY TIME.
It amazes me that just yesterday, Steve Schmidt, McCain’s top adviser during the campaign, gave a speech at the LCR convention warning that the GOP would become irrelevant unless it distances itself from religious conservatives and warms up to the issue of same sex marriage. Is he for real?! It is precisely this kind of “conservatism should be less conservative” poison that sunk his boss’s Presidential campaign and destroyed the very organization that invited him to speak at their convention. The GOP needs to embrace its religious/socially conservative members MORE because there are a lot of them and they actually are principled enough to sit out elections when the GOP candidate balks on issues like abortion. In addition, the party needs to work on its PR and fight back when the Left and the MSM paint the party’s opposition to same sex marriage as ONLY a religious objection. It’s not. Multitudes of conservatives oppose same sex marriage and abortion on grounds that have NOTHING to do with religion, and those views should be promoted in the media.
Additionally, religious conservatives are not ignorant, theocratic, hateful rubes, but the MSM successfully branded them as such while the GOP just sat on its hands and did nothing to defend that important component of the Party. For example, my parents are evangelical Christians and they are fiercely committed to their beliefs and their church. As you might expect, they oppose same sex marriage and voted Yes on Prop. 8. BUT, they have absolutely no opposition whatsoever to state-sanctioned civil unions for gays with all of the same rights under state law. This is not an anomalous view. It is held by the majority of Christians–they want “marriage” left alone, but the state can pass whatever laws it wants to recognize and benefit gay relationships. This view was INVISIBLE during the last election and it’s the GOP’s fault because the Republican candidates were too chicken sh*t to discuss the issue in unequivocal terms. The irony is that if the Left had addressed (and argued rationally against) these nuances in their campaign against Prop. 8 (instead of making it about nothing more than “hate”) the Proposition might have been defeated.
I have tremendous respect for John McCain and his service to this country, but it’s time for him, his dilettante of a daughter, and their ilk in the media and Congress to HIT THE ROAD.
I still find it amazing that the MSM and the left, who at first ignored this movement, then demonized it, then sexualized it, find themselves so offended by peaceful American citizens of all races, creeds and colors, never mind sexual orientation, exercising their constitutional rights to gather and voice peaceful descent. I’ve witnessed many anti-war protests, have seen the mob mentality that ended in smashed windows and overturned burning cars. The tea party I attended in Pleasanton CA was the most civil mass gathering I’ve ever seen. I am largely disabled, I hobble around on a cane and can’t stand or walk for any length of time, but I was treated politely and considerately by this crowd of moms and dads with their kids, elderly couples, teenagers ( I was astonished by the number of teenagers, high school students who were there) and eagerly allowed to move to the front of the crowd to be able to see the speakers. Can anyone clue me in on why there seemed to be so many teenage kids there? And they had the best signs, these kids were downright serious about the event. I was very impressed.
The Oakland Tribune, hardly a bastion of right wing though, covered the event very favorably, and honestly. The Pleasanton Weekly filed a report at mid afternoon saying the turnout was a few hundred; the Tribune reported a thousand at 1PM for an event that was scheduled to go on till 8PM. In total, turnout was well in excess of two thousand. And no incidents, no profanity, no rudeness, no inappropriate displays of anything. Quite a bit different than the last anti-Iraqi war demonstration in SF. BTW, what has happened to those demonstrations? There is no timetable for withdrawal, our troops are still there, but no more demonstrations?????? Something to think about.
Hey all,
This is Chris Clemency, one of the organizers for our event. I was very happy to see a GayPatriot member out there and would have really liked to see several homosexual conservatives and libertarians out at every other one. Funny thing is, the first time I saw your sign, I thought you were lambasting gays and I was headed over to tear your sign up…then I read it and stopped dead. It was wonderful to see you out there and again, please come out to other ones!
If GayPatriot.com ever needs my help with anything, just email me at chris_clemency@yahoo.com. Always happy to help 🙂
Thanks,
Chris Clemency
Wow. Maybe some are catching on to the fact that the Dear Teleprompter is destroying their futures, by his insane deficits that commit the country to unprecedented levels of future taxation, and/or inflation (a different kind of tax).
I believe that Obama-Gates have a timetable, to be precise, that is not what Obama proposed during the 2008 campaign, but rather, that is what Bush-Gates-McCain had proposed. Anyway, I second your motion.
Sean, in California Republican legislators may be against marriage equality. But they are against anything to improve the lives of LGBT Californians. I could understand why the left tried to equate Proposition 8 as hate.
Please get me this guy’s email address – I think I’m in love.
LOL!!!
…Which is a travesty because, after all, gays and lesbians in California have it ***so***…. ***very***… bad.
/sarc
Ashpenaz: I think we need to work on forming a shirtless hunk protester group. I’m willing to take a week off work to screen candidates. Wanna help?
Awesome a Homo! Now show us a pic of a Black, Mexican and another person of color. Wow these tea bag parties really are integrated…I have seen one pic of a Hispanic, AA and now a homo. I’m sold. Sign me up.
#18 once again shows why the Right is the party that ‘judges not by the colour of their skin, but by their character.’
#19 Which is why the MSM never acknowledges anything that we do as historicial. They tooted their horn that Obama´s candicacy and subsequent election was historical. Yet, I never heard or read that in 2000 that Gen. Colin Powell was the first African American to be named Secretary of State or that Condi Rice was the first woman of color to be appointed to that position in 2004. The historical nature of their appointments were ignored. The appointment of Alberto Gonzalez was historical as the first latino to be Attorney General. The fact that President Bush´s cabinet had more minorities than any previous administration was ignored. I never saw it in print nor heard on tv. When Carol Mosley Brown election to the Senate was historical as the first black woman but ilt was ignored that she was preceeded by the black men in the Senate, all Republicans. The fact that we judge by the content of character should not be a reason for the MSM to ignore the historical aspect when a minority who is a Republican acheives a first for his/her race. Instead, being leftist they side with majority and paint our minority acheivers as Uncle Toms and coconuts.
Hey Dave A. (comment #18) I find you small minded and offensive. It’s easy to dismiss the tea parties as not being “inclusive” and “racist”. Chicago’s tea party had African American participants. But basically, the African American community has been destroyed and enslaved by Democrat Party programs and policy. I am an Asian American woman who participated in my local tea party with my Asian American husband. We covered 4 corners of an intersection and got a lot of honks, smiles, thumbs up and waves including from some people of color. So be smug, be dismissive, be elitist. You suck.