Your weekday morning blend from Instant Tea:
1. With Texas Gov. Rick Perry about to enter the GOP presidential race, Michele Bachmann is stepping up her anti-gay game. Polls show that Perry and Bachmann are likely to compete for the critical evangelical vote. So, with Perry’s day of prayer happening Saturday in Houston, Bachmann released a list of 100 pastors who’ve endorsed her on Friday and set out to attend two evangelical church services on Sunday. And one of those services just so happened to be virulently anti-gay, with the pastor denouncing homosexuality as “immoral” and “unnatural” and playing a video featuring a man who claims to have prayed away the gay. Watch the hilarious video featuring the “ex-gay” man, Adam Hood, below.
2. The polls say Perry and Bachmann will compete for the evangelical vote, but Rick “frothy mix” Santorum isn’t about to throw in the towel, so to speak. CNN reports that on Monday, Santorum’s campaign launched a pre-emptive strike against Perry based on the news that the Texas governor will confirm his plans to run for president on Saturday in South Carolina. “If reports are true, then I want to be the first to welcome Governor Perry to the race — but it’s too bad he chose to ignore Iowa,” Santorum said in a statement. “I guess we’ll all see each other soon on the trail. I wonder which version of marriage he’ll be ‘fine’ with in South Carolina – obviously, not the same version he was ‘fine’ with in New York.”
3. Here’s something both Perry and Bachmann — but not Santorum — can include on their list of anti-gay credentials: Their home states, Texas and Minnesota, are both among the 18 where where sodomy laws remain on the books despite the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in 2003 declaring them unconstitutional. Equality Matters posted a detailed report about the sodomy laws on Monday saying that not only do they remain on the books, but in some cases they continue to be enforced. Scary.
The ad hominem attacks against Bachmann by the media jackals have boomeranged against the Left and hugely helped Bachmann.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/how-attacking-michele-bachmann-is-making-her-stronger/2011/07/27/gIQAWdz4cI_blog.html
Whenever the press attacks Bachmann, she “gets a flood of support and money. She becomes ‘Every Woman,’ a misunderstood Tea Party mother of five facing down an elitist, arrogant, Obama-leaning press corps.” The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on.
8/2/11 Rasmussen Poll: Romney 44% vs. Bachmann 42% in a two-way race.
Derek my little love lumps of a man… You are so brave to post a positive comment about Bachman…I assume after watching the video clip above.
You can quote the polls till the cows come home sweetheart, but it is clear this woman belongs in the nut house and her hubby belongs in the bath house.
If you want to see who “Every Woman” is…….check out the (above) video clip again.
This guy in the video keeps flipping back and forth. Not to mention the actual definition of abomination in those times meant “disliked” and “against the law”.Literal interpretation of bible= Fail
When Adam Hood came to Australia recently to preach in churches, we closed down his meetings and sent him packing back to the US.
https://gayambassador.blogspot.com/2011/04/australians-tell-us-ex-gaynot-here.html
Tweet: 1 Apr :@gayambassador Anthony Venn-Brown “message from Aussie #exgaysurvivors to all USA ‘ex-gays’ thinking of coming to Australia to speak. “Don’t bother””
https://exgayaustralia.blogspot.com/2011/07/which-one-would-you-vote-for-who-is.html
There is also an article about this in DNA Magazine #138 called Love or Hate page 30.
Too ludicrous, Now…MB claims she and her husband “provided a home for” more than 20 foster children. I yearn for the first investigative report on those children and their experience in her “home.
John, that is the funniest video I’ve seen in a long time. I love the summer scarf and soul patch. I know, stereotyping, but still, it’s just funny. Actually, it’s not funny; it’s sad, but I couldn’t help but just notice that he has the same “intensity” in his eyes as Michelle’s Newsweek photo.
Michele Bachmann and her husband are both very far out. Not good for the U.S. She is running on her own “gay agenda” platform. We are closing schools, laying people off. Family’s are being foreclosed on and being put out in the streets. And all this Republican running for President and her husband can do is talk about is “praying away the gay”. It is a good money maker for her, but we have bigger things to do, and I am hopping God has to. If you or your church has the gay agenda on your mind, all the time you may need to set down and talk with someone. We need to start looking at what is best for the country. Not our own religion’s views, that blow in the wind.