The role of George W. Bush’s campaign manager in N.Y. gay marriage vote
Worth reading from today’s Daily Beast — and note the quote at the end:
Ken Mehlman managed President George W. Bush’ s re-election drive in 2004.
Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman at the 2005 National Conference in 2005. AP
Courting the evangelical Christian voting bloc so crucial to the Republican Party, Mehlman’s boss campaigned on a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. When asked by Tim Russert in 2005 whether homosexuality is a choice, Mehlman, famous for sticking like pine tar to his talking points, said, “I don’ t know the answer to that question.”
But last year, Mehlman, at the age of 43, announced that he was gay. Turning the personal political, Mehlman then worked alongside a host of tightly organized conservative donors and operatives to plot a victory for same-sex marriage in New York.
When the effort paid off, after days of high-wire suspense, arm-twisting, and a dramatic late-night vote, gay New Yorkers flooded into the streets—and packed the Stonewall, the bar where the gay rights movement was born in 1969. Mehlman, a man seemingly born in a well-pressed suit, basked in the victory, relaxed in a flannel shirt.
“When Obama was elected, it was the same kind of feeling, a real joy and real happiness with people pouring out into the streets,” Mehlman said.
- By Jim Galloway, Political Insider
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Praise Jeebus!
June 27th, 2011
9:50 pm
gtfanfrom1951
June 27th, 2011
9:43 pm
Gee, lets find two virgins to sacrifice, and we will be SAVED! You are so enamored with the evil gays that you don’t even see what all is wrong with your fable.
Praise Jeebus!
June 27th, 2011
9:53 pm
Colossians 1:16
For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.
Again gtoldfart51 — that is ALL THINGS. ALL!
Rick
June 27th, 2011
9:54 pm
To all the people who insist that being gay is a sin, the bible also says (in the very same book) that eating shellfish is an abomination. Please get you placards ready to march en masse to the nearest Red Lobster restaurant.
Patrick
June 27th, 2011
9:54 pm
This is our county, not your church, so lets stop mixing religious beliefs with laws. Last time I checked we weren’t governed by the Bible.
There is nothing more amazing than love, anyone who can’t recognize and celebrate that, in its many forms, has their own issues to investigate.
Daisy
June 27th, 2011
9:57 pm
Well said Charles!
Leroy
June 27th, 2011
9:57 pm
Now, look here y’all. I don’t care what two or more consenting adults do in a bedroom. Or outside as far as that goes. Buy, I don’t like this marrying part. I can just see it now: Two homosexual fellers standing before a homosexual preacher with a chapel full of homosexuals justing swooning with the vapors at this sweet scene. The “bride” walks down the isle holding a bouquet of flowers in his right and his daddy on his left. Then after all the giving away and swapping of sweet original vows, the preacher says, “Do you, Ralph, promise to be faithful to George and will not have homosexual relations with any other man for the rest of your natural life?”. Ralph, of course does so promise. George then goes through the same questioning. Finally, the preacher says, “Having authority from the legislature and governor of the State of New York, but not from it’s citizens, I pronounce the two of you – ercomers.
MyPatootie
June 27th, 2011
10:00 pm
Gays are always demanding equality and rights for their types, but they are hypocrites. Ever notice they leave out the pedophiles in GBLT? It should be GBPLT. It was initially revealed last year by a research group in Canada(CAMH, I think) that pedophiles are born that way (just as gays SAY they are) due to “faulty wiring, and a lack of gray matter”. So that would explain why they SAY they can’t help it and or considered unable to be rehabilitated. So wouldn’t that put pedolphilia in the same basic group as homosexuality?
1-2 %
June 27th, 2011
10:15 pm
Gosh, such a hugely disproportionate time spent worrying about 1-2% of the population. And to the stupid clowns on the board that think it impossible for someone’s family tree to not have a homosexual in it…learn to study mathematics and probability, it might save you from hurting yourself or someone else. Your ignorance is astounding.
Dirty Harry
June 27th, 2011
10:17 pm
Look before I leap….,
The Bible has plenty to say about homosexual relations. I’ve done my research, and I pray that you do yours. I’m not trying to convince anyone that the Bible is true (even though I believe it to be the infallible word of God), I’m just very thankful for all of the wonderful things Christ has done in my life even though I don’t deserve them because I’m a sinner just like everyone else….I just know that He can and will do the same for you if you truly believe. Have a great night….it’s past my bed time!
Rick
June 27th, 2011
10:18 pm
Gee there was a molestation article in today’s local paper and it was a heterosexual man and several young girls. I guess your idiotic comment is a good sign MyPatootie. You’re definitely getting desperate. Is your overt bigotry limited to gays or are you an equal-opportunity bigot?
td
June 27th, 2011
10:20 pm
Most heterosexual men are born wanting multiple mates but the laws of this nation does not allow us to have multiple wives (this has been biologically confirmed). Why can we not have multiple wives now?
Look before I leap...
June 27th, 2011
10:27 pm
@Dirty Harry:
I did not say anything about the Bible. I said Christ had nothing to say on the matter. I have done my research. I have read the Bible from cover to cover. There is NOTHING in the Gospels regarding homosexuality.
Dirty Harry
June 27th, 2011
10:36 pm
Look before I leap…,
Have you tried looking in Romans?
Look before I leap...
June 27th, 2011
10:42 pm
@MyPatootie:
You have brought out the old and fallacious canard that tries to equate pedophilia with homosexuality. You really should do some research before you spout your ignorance. The gay community is unequivacably against sexual relations between adults and minors. They have steadfastly refused to include NAMBLA (Google it) in any sanctioned events and celebrations. No one in the GLBT community wants to aligned with sexual exploitation of minors.
Dirty Harry
June 27th, 2011
10:50 pm
Look before I leap…,
Romans 1:24,26-28 and 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 and 1 Timothy 1:10
May God bless you as you continue your research! Good night.
Look before I leap...
June 27th, 2011
10:56 pm
@Dirty Harry:
I assuming you are referring to Romans 1:27.
This is an epistle from Paul. Not one of the Gospels. This is Paul’s attempt to define the road to God’s salvation for the Jews. And this particular rant by Paul was ripped from Solomon’s Book of Wisdom. Solomon by the way, had over 700 wives and hundreds of “concubines”.
Praise Jeebus!
June 27th, 2011
11:21 pm
MyPatootie
June 27th, 2011
10:00 pm
Yes patootie. In much the same way you were born without half of your brain.
another comment
June 27th, 2011
11:37 pm
For all the ignorant Bible tumbers who just blindly follow and read their bibles. Taking the interpretation of their pastor who is doing either the wife’s of his congregation or the boys of his congregation like at the big Black church that just settled out of court. God, Jesus, or Christ did not write the bible. The supposed writers were the apostles, and years after his death. Many of the quotes your pastor’s like to quote confilict with Jesus’s 33 years of preaching. It is a story, a piece of fiction at best. Not the law.
What about the politician’s like Glen Richardson and Newt Gingrich that cheat on their wives. That is fine to the holy roller community. They have an R next to their name.
I went to college with a former RNC chair, who is now a big time Republican consultant. He was a democrat in college. He only became a Republican, because he could only find a Republican Congressman from PA to hire him out of college. If he would have found a Democrat Congressman to work for, he might have been the second DNC chair to go to college with me. Instead I went to college with the DNC and RNC chairs who served at the same time. It was fun seeing them on the Sunday Morning talk show.
Will Jones - Atlanta Jeffersonian Exegesis
June 28th, 2011
2:31 am
Homosexuality, and its karmic manifestations, is created in an environment of psychological, physical, or sexual abuse. Curses, as do blessings, pass down through families. It is not of G-d, for G-d is perfect.
Persons sharing the affliction, not wishing or able to overcome it, finding comfort and peace with others sharing their condition, and learned appetites, should have all their civil rights protected.
DADT is appropriate military policy: innocent youth called to arms for Our Nation and Constitution should not be subject to the perversions and proclivities of the less fortunate, albeit motivated, warriors.
Sex is a miracle from G-d. The punishment for molestation or rape of a minor should be great, if not capital, regardless of genders.
That being said, as an adult closeted homosexual, Mehlman’s leading the campaign for a second illegal term for another closeted homosexual, George W. Bush, following Bush’s and Cheney’s 9/11 High Treason isn’t just the most profound hypocrisy: making their campaign’s central strategy opposition to gay marriage, while at least Bush was having documented “overnights” in the White House with his $200 homosexual prostitute, James Guckert/”Jeff Gannon,” rises to the level of abomination before G-d and toleration of it is a threat to America’s fulfillment of the prophecy of The Promised Land.
Mehlman’s is an evil spirit – of the Roman Anti-Christ whose institutionalized homosexuality and hypocrisy is legendary and ancient – regardless of the improved circumstances his attempt to cleanse his soul has achieved for homosexuals in New York or his utility to fascist plutocracy further manipulating “the market” (i.e. the People).
The evil of which he is a part is too great. In this life redemption is unavailable to him. He is accursed.
Unless moral Americans, of every stripe and station, come to grips with Our Nation’s Capital as Babylon on the Potomac, and purge it of alien evil and institutionalized unrighteousness, we are doomed.
There are hundreds of millions of us, only tens of thousands of “them” serving the Anti-Christ’s fascist plutocracy’s spiraling concentration of wealth, diminution of the People, and defilement of the Constitution. The Beast, obvious to all but those riding it, must be cast into the Pit.
G-d is not mocked.
anitanelson
June 28th, 2011
6:36 am
At a time younger generations are supporting the expansion of marriage and trying to solidifying its place in society, the old guard is unhappy because the support of marriage isn’t on their terms. http://bit.ly/jHGq6G
Dirty Harry
June 28th, 2011
8:07 am
Look before I leap…,
And Paul was a servant of and inspired by who?
Tom
June 28th, 2011
9:18 am
I’m so glad we live in a society where so many are still spellbound by the hallucination-filled rantings of a bunch of Bronze Age stoners living in what is now Palestine.
I wonder if as many will be faithfully hanging on to every word written by Jim Morrison and Bob Dylan 2,000 years from now.
Dirty Harry
June 28th, 2011
9:36 am
Tom, and the cool thing is Jesus loves you even though you may not believe that He died on the cross for you.
Tom
June 28th, 2011
10:10 am
Will, do you know what God and soft, fruit-filled chewy cookies have in common?
Both are fig newtons of somebody’s imagination.
Nate
June 28th, 2011
3:15 pm
Stephen Colbert has a plan to ruin gay marriage:
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/343140/august-05-2010/how-to-ruin-same-sex-marriages
Genius!
Tom
June 28th, 2011
3:47 pm
Thanks, Harry…I feel all warm and fuzzy now.
Can I get some milk & cookies with your next post?
Dirty Harry
June 28th, 2011
9:15 pm
Tom, now that you mention it, we’re having milk and cookies at my church this weekend. You know, it helps us Bible thumpers to stay in shape for communion…………..you’re more than welcome to come if you’d like. Have a great night!
sir jesus james jackson
June 29th, 2011
10:45 am
theirs nothing wrong with people wanting to be together,but come on yall i can see myself marrying another man my spirit want allow it ,me be some people can do it i cant, but if they want to marry a man a man let it be god is judge not man, they cant reproduce, so somthing natural is telling you its not right ,study nature you dont see 23 male cows trying to mate ,but you doo see two male dogs trying to have sex we have become dogs not gods we are savage beast now