Rick Santorum, Michele Bachmann, and Mitt Romney. Image from http://thefloridanewsjournal.com/2011/08/04/bachmann-romney-santorum-agree-to-oppose-gay-marriage-in-documents-with-nom/
Get ready for another round of McCarthyism. Mitt Romney, Michele Bachmann, and Rick Santorum have all signed a pledge to form a commission to investigate the LGBT community if elected President.
This pledge was created by the National Organization For Marriage, and they have a history of extreme views against homosexuals and anyone who votes to extend marriage rights to them.
The pledge reads as follows.
I, [candidate name], pledge to the American people that if elected President, I will:
[...] establish a presidential commission on religious liberty to investigate and document reports of Americans who have been harassed or threatened for exercising key civil rights to organize, to speak, to donate or to vote for marriage and to propose new protections, if needed.
In other words, the extreme right wing is going to persecute homosexuals on a whole new level if they have power after the 2012 Election. Homosexuals and supporters of marriage equality will be intimidated, interrogated, and stripped of their right to speak freely. The religious right wing has been allowed to push their un-American and unconstitutional agenda for far too long. Americans must push back. If we continue to do nothing, we could all be persecuted by this fanatical group.
WHY are reich wingers SO concerned about the sex lives of consenting mature adults?
Bachmann and Santorum have as much chance of becoming president as I have of being chosen chairman of the Republican National Committee.
I expect President Obama to crush either Romney or Gingrich like a bug.
These candidates are fascist, imposing their Victorian oppressive values on others. It speaks poorly of the American public that they have this support – Americans deserve the government they get if they elect these wingnuts.
Well I know who I won’t be voting for this election. As to the mean spiritedness being spouted by both sides on this page, politics and religion bring out the worst in most everyone, especially those who believe THEY are correct. What everyone should be thinking is how we could make our lives better by respecting each other. Peace and equality will not come until we respect not only our rights but the rights of others to believe as they chose. Insulting each other and name calling only reduce us to school kids on the playground, no problems will be solved in that mind set. We all need to grow up and find a common ground and prevent our government from being run by the play ground bullies, VOTE!
Seems to me that all the mean-spiritedness is from the right…..as always.
OMG… Wouldnt it be hysterical if secretly these 3 dumbells were cast by the producers of the Jersey shore (without even know it) thinking they were actually running for president – LMAO.
Geez! Bachmann makes Sarah Palin look like a rocket scientist! LOL
I live in Iran.
I’m sure you’r familiar with gay rights in Iran.
That is the exact reason they say in Iran.
“OTHER PPL’S FREEDOM OF RELIGION AND PROTECTION OF THEM.”
And a judge can judge on behalfe of those ppl whose religious rights are violated by LGBT rights.
and the punishment is often STONING.
And that’s why i’m glad I live in the US and not Iran, because they have the ability to be an advanced, progressive society yet choose to live in the stone age.
It’s time for americans to stand up for themselves and save america from hate-filled homophobe republicans like those morons.
if our forefathers were here, they’d be shooting already.
I’m sure Mark Foley, Larry Craig, and Phillip Hinkle would volunteer to do a very thorough investigation. No doubt they wouldn’t rest until they all got to the bottom of it –