The Republican candidates all got together — minus Mitt Romney — for a “debate” sponsored by a couple of religious right whacko groups this weekend. I’m sure you’ll be surprised to hear that The Gay took center stage. Santorum says that if we don’t stop same-sex marriage, the whole country is doomed.
Now all he has to do is make a coherent argument for why allowing same-sex couples to get married will harm even one single heterosexual marriage. Good luck with that.
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raven
November 25, 2011 at 10:44 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Romney probably skipped it because the fundie wingnuts keep calling his Mormon religion a nonXian cult.
Most xians would agree with this. 3/4 pastors will.
But the fundie cults are no better. They are all abusive mind control cults without any redeeming features.
Randomfactor
November 25, 2011 at 10:45 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Rick Foamy-Substance thinks he and the people who think like him constitute the country. He’s right: they ARE doomed.
fifthdentist
November 25, 2011 at 11:16 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Sadly there are too many people in ‘Murka who do believe that if everyone doesn’t suck Jesus’ cock hard enough and long enough then Bible-god will destroy the whole country.
If their god-thing hates teh ghey marriage so much, why doesn’t HE do something about it?
Seriously, if I were the all-knowing, all-powerful creator of the universe and, like, everything, I’d be embarassed to have people like Mr. Frothy Mixture working on my team.
Who Knows?
November 25, 2011 at 11:24 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
So, did Mitt Romney decline to participate or was he not invited because he’s not a real Christian?
raymoscow
November 25, 2011 at 11:24 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Pity poor Newt. His marriages don’t last long, even without the threat of SSM. He’ll be going through a marriage every week if the gays get their way.
abb3w
November 25, 2011 at 11:37 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Ed Brayton: Now all he has to do is make a coherent argument for why allowing same-sex couples to get married will harm even one single heterosexual marriage.
Well, if a gay male married hetero to get a “beard” of social acceptance, social acceptance of gay marriage might well lead to his getting divorced– which may eventually result in the overall improvement of society, but that wasn’t the challenge; it would seem a harm to that single hetero marriage.
Probably not so many of those around these days, however.
Gregory
November 25, 2011 at 11:40 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
“If we don’t stop same-sex marriage, the whole country is doomed.”
Indeed. Just look at what happened in Argentina, Belgium, Canada, Iceland, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, South Africa, Spain and Sweden.
Then there are Andorra, Austria, Brazil, Colombia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Finland, France (along with the overseas collective New Caledonia and Wallis and Futuna), Germany, Greenland, Hungary, Ireland, the Isle of Man, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Slovenia, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and Uruguay, all of which have some kind of national civil union or registered partnership for same-sex couples. Surely, they are all on the fast road to ruin.
reverendrodney
November 25, 2011 at 11:45 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Let me guess: if Newt was there, adultery was off the table. Am I right?
Katherine Lorraine, Chaton de la Mort
November 25, 2011 at 11:48 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
@Gregory:
A shame what happened to Canada *shakes her head* And then Ninjas…. thousands of them. Canada never was the same.
Krzysztof
November 25, 2011 at 1:01 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I wonder why Santorum can’t stop talking about The Gay? It’s like a fixation. I don’t get it…
tommykey
November 25, 2011 at 2:33 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Same sex marriage has been legal in my state of New York for about 4 months now, and so far my heterosexual marriage is still firmly intact. I must be one of the lucky ones! :-)
Irreverend Bastard
November 25, 2011 at 3:17 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
The US is doomed? It certainly looks that way, but not because of gay marriage. Maybe it’s time to end the current society anyway. If it got rid of all the crazies, then I’m all for it.
FlickingYourSwitch
November 25, 2011 at 3:28 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Yeah look at my country, Sweden. It’s going straight to hell as I speak, not only because same sex marriage is legal, but we have all sorts of crazy socialism too. Oh wait, we’re doing pretty good actually, relative to some other countries.
WMDKitty
November 25, 2011 at 8:40 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
People still listen to old Frothy-Mix?
dingojack
November 25, 2011 at 9:05 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
“The Republican candidates all got together — minus Mitt Romney”
Why not simply say ‘the unelectable Republicans’ or ‘Republican also-rans’?
;) Dingo
lofgren
November 25, 2011 at 10:16 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Because they keep ramming it down his throat. Just stuffing it in there without relent. Just thrusting and pounding away with their salty, throbbing gay marriages. It’s disgusting I say, disgusting to subject an upstanding man engorged with the grace of Jesus like Rick Santorum to their perverse, glistening gayness.
Crip Dyke, Right Reverend Feminist FuckToy of Death & Her Handmaiden
November 25, 2011 at 10:30 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
@Katherine Lorraine, Chaton de la Mort – #9
Oh. My. Poor. Lungs.
Seriously, you had me hurting with laughter… Ninjas!
lol…Ninjas!
what can I say?
Bronze Dog
November 25, 2011 at 11:42 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I’m imagining some comedy sketch where a gay couple is getting married, and all of the sudden, ninjas jump out from the shadows, causing a lot of bad special effects gore on all the people present. Scene freezes as some Republican comes on screen giving us dire warnings that same sex marriage will inevitably lead to an alarming rise in ninja assassinations. Anonymous collectives of sociologists and psychologists “know” this. Why won’t you think of the children?
azportsider
November 26, 2011 at 8:35 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
WMDKitty: “People still listen to old Frothy-Mix?”
Well, Ed does, but only for the pure comedy value.
hunter
November 26, 2011 at 1:25 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Now all he has to do is make a coherent argument for why allowing same-sex couples to get married will harm even one single heterosexual marriage.
Well, actually, all he has to do is make a coherent argument about anything. But then, he wouldn’t be Rick Santorum.