I’ve posted some completely outrageous anti-gay, racist and misogynistic quotes from well-known fundies, homobigots and media lowlifes over the years, and thought I’d make a diary with some of the humdingers so we could see the breadth of batsh*ttery out there.
Feel free to search the archives, or Google for some of your favorites and put them in the comments.
I’ve got quite a few ones up at my pad, but below the fold are some random favorites.
Feel free to add classics in the comments…
***SANTORUM: We have laws in states, like the one at the Supreme Court right now, that has sodomy laws and they were there for a purpose. Because, again, I would argue, they undermine the basic tenets of our society and the family. And if the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything. Does that undermine the fabric of our society? I would argue yes, it does. It all comes from, I would argue, this right to privacy that doesn’t exist in my opinion in the United States Constitution, this right that was created, it was created in Griswold - Griswold was the contraceptive case - and abortion. And now we’re just extending it out. And the further you extend it out, the more you - this freedom actually intervenes and affects the family. You say, well, it’s my individual freedom. Yes, but it destroys the basic unit of our society because it condones behavior that’s antithetical to strong healthy families. Whether it’s polygamy, whether it’s adultery, where it’s sodomy, all of those things, are antithetical to a healthy, stable, traditional family.
Every society in the history of man has upheld the institution of marriage as a bond between a man and a woman. Why? Because society is based on one thing: that society is based on the future of the society. And that’s what? Children. Monogamous relationships. In every society, the definition of marriage has not ever to my knowledge included homosexuality. That’s not to pick on homosexuality. It’s not, you know, man on child, man on dog, or whatever the case may be. It is one thing. And when you destroy that you have a dramatic impact on the quality -
AP: I’m sorry, I didn’t think I was going to talk about “man on dog” with a United States senator, it’s sort of freaking me out.
– An unedited section of an Associated Press interview, taped April 7, 2003, with then-senator Sen. Rick Santorum, R-PA.
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“Homosexuals are not monogamous. They want to destroy the institution of marriage. It will destroy marriage. It will destroy the Earth.”
– James Dobson, stumping for Oklahoma U.S. Senate candidate Tom Coburn (The Daily Oklahoman, Oct. 23rd, 2004)
***GQ: Is the strategy shifting because social conservatives are losing on those core issues? Ten years ago, it would have been unimaginable to have gay marriage even in liberal Massachusetts. Now it’s there.
Huckabee: I don’t think the issue’s about being against gay marriage. It’s about being for traditional marriage and articulating the reason that’s important. You have to have a basic family structure. There’s never been a civilization that has rewritten what marriage and family means and survived. So there is a sense in which, you know, it’s one thing to say if people want to live a different way, that’s their business. But when you want to redefine what family means or what marriage means, then that’s an issue that should require some serious and significant debate in the public square.
– Rapist/murderer-releasing Baptist minister and former Arkansas governor and 2008 GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, in a GQ magazine interview.“I didn’t get into politics because I thought government had a better answer. I got into politics because I knew government didn’t have the real answers, that the real answers lie in accepting Jesus Christ into our lives…I hope we answer the alarm clock and take this nation back for Christ.”
– Huck on June 8, 1998, speaking at a two-day Pastors’ Conferencein Salt Lake City.
***I believe that when you’re in a cultural war like this, you have to respond with equal and hopefully greater force if you want to win this battle. But this battle [gay marriage] is the most important issue that we face today, and what an honor it has been to serve in the United States Congress and carry the Marriage Amendment…The future is grim unless we do what we need to do to win this battle.
– Rep. Marilyn Musgrave (R-CO), September 2006, at the Family Research Council’s “Values Voter Summit.”
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“Our elected Senators had a one of a kind chance to protect the country from same-sex marriage by a Constitutional amendment and they failed us. They betrayed our charge. If you as a legislator, support homosexuality or same-sex marriage (or if you continue to practice it), I also doubt your Christianity, because God calls it an “abomination.” It would be like seeing a pastor brought a statue of a Buddha into your church and expecting the congregation to seriously listen to him. Homosexuality is like that Buddha - it’s genital worship, pure and simple, and Democrats are part and parcel to it. They’re the party of the Phallus.
“Homosexual marriage is akin to having two wheels on the left side of the cart and none on the other. Ergo, the cart goes nowhere and contributes nothing, particularly when one of the lefthand wheels keeps going off seeking other carts.”
— Patricia Stebbins in an op-ed in the Cape Cod Times, attempting to describe why two people of the same sex getting married is destructive to society.
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How about Bill Kristol today:
“White women are a problem.”
Ah, Jeff, you’re quick on the trigger! I posted the below in the earlier “Entertainment” thread:
[OT] *** break break break *** Fox News Sunday Bill Kristol: “Look, the only people for Hillary Clinton are the Democratic establishment and white women. The Democratic establishment — it would be crazy for the Democratic Party to follow an establishment that’s led it to defeat year after year. White women are a problem, that’s, you know — we all live with that.” [/OT]
I responded on the other thread, but…moderation is good…
Short version:
Faux Knews: Bigotry is not just tolerated, but encouraged…
“Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.”
Pat Robertson
I like (meaning I fear with every fiber of my being) the Huckster quote about changing the Constitution to reflect “god’s” law.
That’s pretty much a 180 degree opposite view of everything the Constitution stands for. So of course the fundnuts are all for it…
From Pat Robertson:
Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
I have a zero tolerance for sanctimonious morons who try to scare people.
I know one man who was impotent who gave AIDS to his wife and the only thing they did was kiss.
Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?
It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-biased media and the homosexuals who want to destroy all Christians.
Many of those people involved in Adolf Hitler were Satanists, many were homosexuals - the two things seem to go together.
Here’s a beauty from earlier this week.
I assume that crackers counts as a racist slur?
From Jerry Falwell:
AIDS is not just God’s punishment for homosexuals; it is God’s punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.
Any sex outside of the marriage bond between a man and a woman is violating God’s law.
But I don’t believe anyone begins a homosexual.
Homosexuality is Satan’s diabolical attack upon the family that will not only have a corrupting influence upon our next generation, but it will also bring down the wrath of God upon America.
I believe that all of us are born heterosexual, physically created with a plumbing that’s heterosexual, and created with the instincts and desires that are basically, fundamentally, heterosexual.
I do not believe we can blame genetics for adultery, homosexuality, dishonesty and other character flaws.
I think the Moslem faith teaches hate.
I truly cannot imagine men with men, women with women, doing what they were not physically created to do, without abnormal stress and misbehavior.
If you’re not a born-again Christian, you’re a failure as a human being.
Textbooks are Soviet propaganda.
We will see a breakdown of the family and family values if we decide to approve same-sex marriage, and if we decide to establish homosexuality as an acceptable alternative lifestyle with all the benefits that go with equating it with the heterosexual lifestyle.
AIDS is not just God’s punishment for homosexuals; it is God’s punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.
I’ll do ya one better: “AIDS is God’s way of weeding his garden”–Pat Robertson.
Speaking of Jerry Falwell and hate speech…
These comments above, of course, appeared on this very blog on the day of Falwell’s death. The comments speak for themselves.
Ah, less than an hour from first comment to troll…
“These comments above, of course, appeared on this very blog on the day of Falwell’s death. The comments speak for themselves.”
…and your point?…
“Ah, less than an hour from first comment to troll…”
They’re a lot slower today because they’re riveted to the intensely interesting 7-8 hours of Superbowl pre-game shows…
Well, Louise got one of my favorites (the Robertson “practice witchcraft” quote—great t-shirt!) but my other favorite is:
You anonymous commenters on a fiery left-wing political blog REALLY need to set better examples for nationally-known conservative leaders.
Hatin on Jerry Falwell for what he says and does is exactly like Hitler. Hitler in your pants.
“Hatin on Jerry Falwell for what he says and does is exactly like Hitler. Hitler in your pants.”
Is that Hitler in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?
Off topic.
Here’s some videos (not mine) from the counterprotest against Westboro Baptist Church yesterday in Vandalia Ohio.
Screaming at Shirley was quite refreshing.
I assume that crackers counts as a racist slur?
Only if it’s said by non-crackers. We crackers can say it as much as we damn well please.
Hey, I’m not a cracker! I’m a hillbilly!
“Hey, I’m not a cracker! I’m a hillbilly!”
What about Trailer Trash like me?…
Okay, okay, I’ll confess — I’m only part cracker. The rest is mick and dago.
I was born in Georgia.
One of my grandpappies was a signer of Georgia’s order of secession.
I am a cracker.
And if I have the chance I will vote for Obama in the general.
It amuses me how ‘Chris’ objects to facts (hey, holding an opinion is a fact) about Falwell, but not a word about the tinfoilhatted comments of Falwell’s fellow travelers.
And I’d pee on Falwell’s corpse too, unless it were on fire.
Whew! Good thing I read these comments. I have been doing my feminism SO WRONG!!!! I’m looking in the phone book for a coven right now. Thanks for the essential info.
I’d respond to ‘Chris’, but it’d be a waste of time.
As long as Chris is going into non-famous people’s territory, favorite racist comments from non-famous people I’ve heard on other boards (close to verbatim, if not exact)
“Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Louis Farrakhan are the only reason racism still exists against blacks.”
“I would never let my daughter date LeBron James, because he has an out-of-wedlock child. And no, it has nothing to do with his being black.” (Well, two children now. This has to be read in the context that this was the ONLY person in the thread I read who even referenced LeBron’s race; so the fact that he was defensive about it says everything about whether “it had anything to do with his being black.” The poster had a long history of whining about political correctness.)
I have to declare a soft spot in my heart for the classics. No one does it quite like Phyllis.
“Minors are an intended audience for the highly profitable sex industry. Impressionable teenagers are easily persuaded to have abortions, and homosexual clubs in high school are designed for the young.”
“When will American men learn how to stand up to the nagging by the intolerant, uncivil feminists whose sport is to humiliate men?”
“People think that child-support enforcement benefits children, but it doesn’t.”
“By getting married, the woman has consented to sex, and I don’t think you can call it rape.”
On the other hand, if we’re taking Chris’s standards, we could always just pull quotes from Fundies Say The Darnedest Things. That always feels like cheating to me, though.
Hillbillies prefer to be called sons of the soil, but that ain’t gonna happen.
–Dr. Hibbert, The Simpsons
Seriously, this quote bothered me in a totally different way than the bog-standard bigotry: “It would be like seeing a pastor brought a statue of a Buddha into your church and expecting the congregation to seriously listen to him.” So, Unity events, comparative religion as a means of examining common values… this guy can think of NO reason any Christian pastor would ever share any thoughts on Buddhism? What about in Japan, where Buddhism and Christianity often share the same church?
I really want liberal Christians to be fully aware of how much the “religious right” rejects them. Secular government is as vital to decent, intelligent, tolerent religious folk as it is to meanie atheists.
That whole Buddha/phallus thing would have made half a bit of sense had they guy said Shiva instead, whose symbol actually is a phallus.
“Those who are hostile, even unknowingly, to the institution of the family … make peace fragile for the entire national and international community”—”Poppy” Ben.
“It does not affect your daily life very much if your neighbor marries a box turtle. But that does not mean it is right. . . . Now you must raise your children up in a world where that union of man and box turtle is on the same legal footing as man and wife.”
— Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.), advocating a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage in a speech Thursday to the Heritage Foundation.
Complete off-topic:
THE GIANTS WON!!!!!
I still can’t believe it and will have SO much fun wearing my monogrammed Giants coat all day today- hell, I’m wearing the coat until spring, when I can switch to my Yankees coat.
“That whole Buddha/phallus thing would have made half a bit of sense had they guy said Shiva instead, whose symbol actually is a phallus.”
I’m going to remain pretty non-shocked that Guy Adams doesn’t know that distinction.
But in his defense, he seems to keep a very neat mustache.
I am having problems with Daddy Dobson’s assertion that gay sex will destroy the planet. Does every gay orgasm charge the Death Star by one erg, or something? Does a gay orgasm create deadly orgone radiation?
Does every hetero orgasm counteract one or more gay orgasms? If it does, what am I doing here at work?? I’ve got a world to save!
Honey! Put on that kinky number and get the weed whacker ready, I’m taking the day off!!
“I’m going to remain pretty non-shocked that Guy Adams doesn’t know that distinction.”
Well, it’s not like they’re completely different religions or anything…
“[T]he boy’s father has to do his part. He needs to mirror and affirm his son’s maleness. He can play rough-and-tumble games with his son, in ways that are decidedly different from the games he would play with a little girl. He can help his son learn to throw and catch a ball. He can teach him to pound a square wooden peg into a square hole in a pegboard. He can even take his son with him into the shower, where the boy cannot help but notice that Dad has a penis, just like his, only bigger.” -James Dobson
But in his defense, he seems to keep a very neat mustache.
I would say “a very gay mustache.” But that’s just me.
I am glad someone else mentioned Dobson’s “destroy the planet” comment. It never ceases to amaze me what these so-called preachers will say without blinking an eye. I mean that is stupid on a lot of levels.
“[T]he boy’s father has to do his part. He needs to mirror and affirm his son’s maleness. He can play rough-and-tumble games with his son, in ways that are decidedly different from the games he would play with a little girl. He can help his son learn to throw and catch a ball. He can teach him to pound a square wooden peg into a square hole in a pegboard. He can even take his son with him into the shower, where the boy cannot help but notice that Dad has a penis, just like his, only bigger.” -James Dobson
Not long ago, I found a copy of the childrearing book containing this priceless quote at Goodwill and had the pleasure of reading it to my husband and watching his dawning horror. “Playing catch…yeah, that’s fine…pounding pegs…kind of a weird choice, but okay…taking him into the HOLY GEEZ WHAT THE HELL?” Really, it’s just old-school Freudianism taken to a goofily literal level, but it’s still hilarious.
That section of the book also goes on about what a great “accomplishment” it is to grow up into a straight man, or raise a straight son, and how straight men should take pride in all the hard work they had to put in to get that way. My husband commented that he didn’t find it all that difficult. It seems like a cheap shot to note that Dobson thinks that having sex with women is hard, painful work, but it’s right there in the book, for pete’s sake.
Good to see Senator Frothy Mix up there. I keep forgetting he’s still out there.