Minnesota Democratic House candidate Erin Maye Quade (left) and her wife, Alyse Maye Quade. CREDIT: Courtesy Of Erin Maye Quade.
During a Republican district convention in the suburban Twin Cities last month, Ali Jimenez-Hopper helped seal her endorsement as a state House candidate with a speech that attacked her Democratic opponent on the basis of her sexual orientation and race.
Referring to Erin Maye Quade, a staffer for Keith Ellison who has a black dad and is married to a woman, Jimenez-Hopper said “she is really far left [in] her values.”
“She brings up that she is half black and she uses that as a strength. She brings up that she is in support of LGBT and that lifestyle and puts out pictures on Twitter of her and her wife,” Jimenez-Hopper continued. “I believe in the traditional marriage in the sense that it’s between a husband and wife and God and that family is important. We need to have these values so we can go forth and think about your community.”
Oh, the horror! Ms. Quade is confident and proud of her heritage, and she posts photos of herself and her spouse, oh no, why that’s just evil. Pure evil. I much prefer the evil of a married couple posting photos than I am with the idea of the Christian Ménage à trois. So, it’s only the Christian trio family that’s important, the rest of us don’t matter at all. I can’t even process we need to have these values so we can go forth and think about your community. What does that mean? Go forth and think about your community, not our community, that’s a discordant note. Perhaps it’s simply as blatant as it seems, “hey, we’re going to stick our nose in all the things we shouldn’t!”
Following that speech, Jimenez-Hopper was officially endorsed as the GOP candidate for the House seat being vacated by Republican Rep. Tara Mack. Neither Jimenez-Hopper or Maye Quade face primary challengers, meaning they’re set to face off in the general election this November.
There isn’t even the slightest attempt to hide their bigotry now, no trying to disguise it with flowery language, not even going with the tried and true baffle them with bullshit.
Reached for comment, Maye Quade said that like many people, she first heard audio of Jimenez-Hopper’s remarks when they were detailed in a thecolu.mn report published Wednesday. She said she came across the article this morning while in bed with her wife Alyse.
“This isn’t a Republican or Democrat thing, it’s basic human respect and it’s shocking to hear from anyone,” Maye Quade told ThinkProgress, adding that she’s never met Jimenez-Hopper. “That’s not the tone I want for this election — at least for me.”
I love that she mentions being in bed with her wife. If I was a Minnesotan, Ms. Quade would definitely get my vote.
What?! Married couples sleep together?!?!
/snark
Jimenez-Hopper:
Obviously, Maye Quade thinks that family is important. Also, you can believe in “traditional marriage” all you want, but you do not have the right to force those beliefs on people who do not hold them.
I much prefer the evil of a married couple posting photos than I am with the idea of the Christian Ménage à trois.
Speaking as a cis-dude who has ruined 2 marriages, I’m always happy to see a smiling couple. I’ve decided to stop ruining marriages, though, because it’s expensive and -- unlike Gingrich, Trump, Limbaugh, whatever, it just seemed like a good idea to admit that the common thread running through all my failed relationships is: me. If republicans cared so much about marriage, they’d be trying to stop assholes like, well, me, from getting married and ruining marriage any further.
But you know what ruins marriages? I mean really ruins marriages? Literally blows them apart, sometimes? Fucking war. Wars ruin marriages. But I don’t see these republican assholes worrying about all the widows and orphans they create. It’s bloody strange “family values” to have kids growing up wondering if the man with the gun is going to shoot mommy, or just getting vaporized with US-made artillery paid for by taxpayers and shipped abroad to be used on cities in Palestine, Syria, Libya, Yemen, and … ugh. Their “family values” are bizzare indeed.
I support biblical marriage: One man, a couple hundred wives, a few hundred concubines on the side. Why do these so-called “Christians” want to crush that glorious, infinitely fertile web of relationships under the pallid, threadbare hemi-demi-semi-marriage that is one man and one woman?
Cubist:
And a never-ending supply of viagra.
Apparently so, I’ve even observed this happening in the wild.