Jeb Bush (R)
(sort of) Candidate
for President of the United States
Recently, Christian Broadcasting Network's David Brody asked Jeb Bush if he thought businesses should be able to deny service to gays or lesbians.Jeb's reply:
"Yes, absolutely if its based on a religious belief."
Mr. Bush went on to say that, no matter how the Supreme Court rules next month, he does not believe the U.S. Constitution gives same-sex couples the right to marry. He did not say whether he, as president, would follow the Court's ruling or whether he would encourage states to ignore the ruling as some Republicans are doing.
what eye thynk: Does this remind anyone else of George Wallace and the integration battles of the 1960s--another battle fought by Bible toting bigots?
Mr. Bush also said he did not think gay couples should be permitted to adopt.
I guess when you grow up rich like Jeb, you reach adulthood so completely out of touch with a parentless child's need for love and security that you can say a child is better off being passed around the foster care system for eighteen years than living with two loving albeit same-sex parents--and say it with a straight face. Jeb might consider asking some nine-year-old, facing his third or fourth or fifth foster home, another new school and another set of friends whether he'd prefer to continue that way or take a shot at a secure home with forever parents who just happen to be named Joe and John.
Mr. Bush seemed to try to explain his anti-adoption prejudice away by saying that children born into poverty need two opposite-sex parents to succeed.
Because same-sex couples can't be affluent or raise successful children? On what information did he base this belief?
When I hear comments like this, (and let's face it, we hear some variation of them every day), I want someone to replace "gay" with "black" or "Muslim" or (let's pretend it's 1850) "Irish" and ask the same question so I can watch people like Jeb Bush hang themselves trying to explain the difference. Bigotry is bigotry...period.
I owned a retail business for 17 years. Sometimes I wish I still owned it so I could put up a sign that says "We don't serve Republicans."
Minorities are just that; a minority. Majority seems to mean white rich males of the Republican ilk.
ReplyDeleteThe kind that denies it stole America, the land of the free, from every single Native American.
The kind that denies that it, either owns or is owned by the rich white male republicans.
The kind that is now stealing America (the land of the free) from the working class people the built the damn thing.
The kind that ... oh Effem!