Comments on: Homophobic Catholic senator, arrested for drink-driving, admits ‘I’m gay’ http://freethinker.co.uk/2010/03/08/homophobic-catholic-senator-arrested-for-drink-driving-admits-%e2%80%98i%e2%80%99m-gay%e2%80%99/ The voice of atheism since 1881 Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:08:53 +0000 hourly 1 By: Petursey http://freethinker.co.uk/2010/03/08/homophobic-catholic-senator-arrested-for-drink-driving-admits-%e2%80%98i%e2%80%99m-gay%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-29632 Petursey Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:12:02 +0000 http://freethinker.co.uk/?p=12218#comment-29632 Sweet twisted republiturd schadenfreude :-) Sweet twisted republiturd schadenfreude :-)

]]> By: Montana http://freethinker.co.uk/2010/03/08/homophobic-catholic-senator-arrested-for-drink-driving-admits-%e2%80%98i%e2%80%99m-gay%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-29626 Montana Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:27:10 +0000 http://freethinker.co.uk/?p=12218#comment-29626 “Family Values” California state senator representing Kern County, Republican Roy Ashburn (guess how he votes on gay issues?), goes to a gay bar near the Capital, picks up a scantily clad buddy, gets drunk, drives and receives a DUI. In my opinion the Republican Party has been taken over small portions of the republican party of “birthers, baggers and blowhards” (people who love to push their beliefs on others while trying to take away rights of those they just hate) and that’s who they need to extract from their party if they real want to win. Good Luck, because as they said in WACO, “We Ain’t Coming Out”. They are good at “Follow the Leader”. They listen to their dullard leaders Beck, Hedgecock, Hannity, O’Reilly, Rush and Savage and the rest of the Blowhards. The world is complicated and most republicans (Hamiliton, Lincoln, Roosevelt) believe that we should use government a little to increase social mobility, now its about dancing around the claim that government is the problem. The sainted Reagan passed the biggest tax increase in American history and as a result federal employment increased, but facts are lost when mired in mysticism and superstition. Although most republicans are trying to distant themselves from this fringe they have a long way to go. I guess Ashburn is the first on the list “2010 Republican Summer of Love”. Remember last year list of “2009 Republican Summer of Love”: state assemblyman, Michael D. Duvall (CA), Senator John Ensign (NV), Senator Paul Stanley (TN), Governor Mark Stanford (SC), SC Board of Ed Chair, Kristin Maguire (AKA Bridget Keeney). Do I hear Tammy Wynette, “Stand By Your Man” playing in the background? I remember not so long ago that other Orange County song favorite, “Stand By Your Tan” (for Tan Nguyen). But that’s another Orange County fool. “Family Values” California state senator representing Kern County, Republican Roy Ashburn (guess how he votes on gay issues?), goes to a gay bar near the Capital, picks up a scantily clad buddy, gets drunk, drives and receives a DUI. In my opinion the Republican Party has been taken over small portions of the republican party of “birthers, baggers and blowhards” (people who love to push their beliefs on others while trying to take away rights of those they just hate) and that’s who they need to extract from their party if they real want to win. Good Luck, because as they said in WACO, “We Ain’t Coming Out”. They are good at “Follow the Leader”. They listen to their dullard leaders Beck, Hedgecock, Hannity, O’Reilly, Rush and Savage and the rest of the Blowhards. The world is complicated and most republicans (Hamiliton, Lincoln, Roosevelt) believe that we should use government a little to increase social mobility, now its about dancing around the claim that government is the problem. The sainted Reagan passed the biggest tax increase in American history and as a result federal employment increased, but facts are lost when mired in mysticism and superstition. Although most republicans are trying to distant themselves from this fringe they have a long way to go. I guess Ashburn is the first on the list “2010 Republican Summer of Love”. Remember last year list of “2009 Republican Summer of Love”: state assemblyman, Michael D. Duvall (CA), Senator John Ensign (NV), Senator Paul Stanley (TN), Governor Mark Stanford (SC), SC Board of Ed Chair, Kristin Maguire (AKA Bridget Keeney). Do I hear Tammy Wynette, “Stand By Your Man” playing in the background? I remember not so long ago that other Orange County song favorite, “Stand By Your Tan” (for Tan Nguyen). But that’s another Orange County fool.

]]> By: Lauryn http://freethinker.co.uk/2010/03/08/homophobic-catholic-senator-arrested-for-drink-driving-admits-%e2%80%98i%e2%80%99m-gay%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-29624 Lauryn Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:34:54 +0000 http://freethinker.co.uk/?p=12218#comment-29624 This always makes me rub my hands in glee at the irony. Stupid twat, he calls us the sinners but at least we aren't living our lives in a lie because of what society wants. I'll 'pray' for him. :) This always makes me rub my hands in glee at the irony. Stupid twat, he calls us the sinners but at least we aren’t living our lives in a lie because of what society wants.

I’ll ‘pray’ for him. :)

]]> By: JT http://freethinker.co.uk/2010/03/08/homophobic-catholic-senator-arrested-for-drink-driving-admits-%e2%80%98i%e2%80%99m-gay%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-29621 JT Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:10:52 +0000 http://freethinker.co.uk/?p=12218#comment-29621 @Barry Duke Damn! So close. Who knows how this world would have changed had you given Ronny a debilitating case of gay back then? Everyone knows how contagious that gay is. I mean the strain going around back then required contact with em' but the modern stuff is much tougher. All you have to do is let up your incessant gay bashing for a single moment and it'll getcha. Probably what happened to poor Ashburn. Man took a short nap, let his guard down and woke up doing body shots off of some chiseled abs in a gay bar. @Barry Duke
Damn! So close. Who knows how this world would have changed had you given Ronny a debilitating case of gay back then? Everyone knows how contagious that gay is. I mean the strain going around back then required contact with em’ but the modern stuff is much tougher. All you have to do is let up your incessant gay bashing for a single moment and it’ll getcha. Probably what happened to poor Ashburn. Man took a short nap, let his guard down and woke up doing body shots off of some chiseled abs in a gay bar.

]]> By: barriejohn http://freethinker.co.uk/2010/03/08/homophobic-catholic-senator-arrested-for-drink-driving-admits-%e2%80%98i%e2%80%99m-gay%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-29619 barriejohn Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:28:00 +0000 http://freethinker.co.uk/?p=12218#comment-29619 I've never seen that hilarious Larry Craig video before, but do you notice that he actually begins his prepared statement by saying: <i>"Thank you all very much for coming out today."</i> <b>PMSL!!</b> I’ve never seen that hilarious Larry Craig video before, but do you notice that he actually begins his prepared statement by saying: “Thank you all very much for coming out today.” PMSL!!

]]> By: Broga http://freethinker.co.uk/2010/03/08/homophobic-catholic-senator-arrested-for-drink-driving-admits-%e2%80%98i%e2%80%99m-gay%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-29617 Broga Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:30:10 +0000 http://freethinker.co.uk/?p=12218#comment-29617 I watched that Ted Haggard clip for the first time. Jesus wept! I admit it. I am naive, stupid, ignorant about these guys. Most of the time I don't follow up on these clips and my disgust of these hypocrites is based on a superficial awareness of their sanctimonious hypocrisy. But when you actually see and hear that Ted Haggard sickboy,his loutish supposed humour, his twee supposed jokes, his references to the bible telling him how to behave and then discover what he actually is ............ I would love to stuff his bible down his lying throat. I watched that Ted Haggard clip for the first time. Jesus wept! I admit it. I am naive, stupid, ignorant about these guys. Most of the time I don’t follow up on these clips and my disgust of these hypocrites is based on a superficial awareness of their sanctimonious hypocrisy. But when you actually see and hear that Ted Haggard sickboy,his loutish supposed humour, his twee supposed jokes, his references to the bible telling him how to behave and then discover what he actually is ………… I would love to stuff his bible down his lying throat.

]]> By: Stuart W http://freethinker.co.uk/2010/03/08/homophobic-catholic-senator-arrested-for-drink-driving-admits-%e2%80%98i%e2%80%99m-gay%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-29615 Stuart W Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:43:10 +0000 http://freethinker.co.uk/?p=12218#comment-29615 Brimming with apologies, but will there be any over the fact that he spent years opposing equal rights for gay people to cloak his own sexuality? Like a drunk Ashburn in front of a police officer, I won't hold my breath. Brimming with apologies, but will there be any over the fact that he spent years opposing equal rights for gay people to cloak his own sexuality? Like a drunk Ashburn in front of a police officer, I won’t hold my breath.

]]> By: godlesssodamite http://freethinker.co.uk/2010/03/08/homophobic-catholic-senator-arrested-for-drink-driving-admits-%e2%80%98i%e2%80%99m-gay%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-29614 godlesssodamite Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:04:11 +0000 http://freethinker.co.uk/?p=12218#comment-29614 what a hypocrite. should have been outed years ago. what a hypocrite. should have been outed years ago.

]]> By: barriejohn http://freethinker.co.uk/2010/03/08/homophobic-catholic-senator-arrested-for-drink-driving-admits-%e2%80%98i%e2%80%99m-gay%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-29611 barriejohn Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:45:08 +0000 http://freethinker.co.uk/?p=12218#comment-29611 I expect that when asked about this embarrassing incident later in his life, Barry, all he could manage was to mutter: <i>"I don't recall"</i>! I expect that when asked about this embarrassing incident later in his life, Barry, all he could manage was to mutter: “I don’t recall”!

]]> By: Barry Duke http://freethinker.co.uk/2010/03/08/homophobic-catholic-senator-arrested-for-drink-driving-admits-%e2%80%98i%e2%80%99m-gay%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-29610 Barry Duke Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:23:35 +0000 http://freethinker.co.uk/?p=12218#comment-29610 NeoWolfe: Wrong! I am a Brit, but having travelled extensively in the US I developed quite an interest in American politics. And once, in Los Angeles, I ALMOST had my hand shaken by Ronald Reagan. He was running for the presidency (first time round) when he breezed into town to press flesh. I was sunning myself by the pool outside Duke's Motel (where else?) on Santa Monica Boulevard when he leapt out of a limo to greet the me and the other boys he spotted over a low wall. Just as he extended his hand out to me, a panic-struck bunch of dark-suited spooks accompanying him rushed over and whispered something in his ear. All I managed to hear was "faggots!". The hand was hastily withdrawn, the grin evaporated, and he sped off, with jeers ringing in his ears. Made my day, that did. NeoWolfe: Wrong! I am a Brit, but having travelled extensively in the US I developed quite an interest in American politics. And once, in Los Angeles, I ALMOST had my hand shaken by Ronald Reagan. He was running for the presidency (first time round) when he breezed into town to press flesh.

I was sunning myself by the pool outside Duke’s Motel (where else?) on Santa Monica Boulevard when he leapt out of a limo to greet the me and the other boys he spotted over a low wall. Just as he extended his hand out to me, a panic-struck bunch of dark-suited spooks accompanying him rushed over and whispered something in his ear. All I managed to hear was “faggots!”. The hand was hastily withdrawn, the grin evaporated, and he sped off, with jeers ringing in his ears. Made my day, that did.

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