Tom Schlueter (via Twitter)
Right Wing Watch reports that one of the groups that’s endorsed Gov. Rick Perry’s Day of Prayer believes Perry is actually an answer to its prayers. In an article defending the event funded by the American Family Association, an anti-gay hate group, the AFA’s own OneNewsNow quotes Tom Schlueter of the Texas Apostolic Prayer Network:
“One of the things that we have been asking the Lord for many, many years has been a time when one of our political leaders will rise up and make this kind of a call to the state or to the nation,” Schlueter told OneNewsNow.
Right Wing Watch goes on to note that Schlueter, pastor of Prince of Peace Church in Arlington, once tied Hurricane Rita to the vote on Texas’ constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage and civil unions. So you can add Schlueter to the long list of whackos who’ve endorsed Perry’s Day of Prayer. But here’s our question: Will Perry’s love for anti-gay bigots be enough to earn him a glitter-bomb?
In case you missed it, GOP presidential candidate Michelle Bachmann became the latest victim of a gay-rights glitter-bomb at a right-wing convention in Minneapolis on Saturday. Bachmann joins Newt Gingrich and Tim Pawlenty among members of the Republican presidential clown car who’ve fallen victim to the latest fad in activism. And although Perry hasn’t officially declared that he’s running for president, Karen Ocamb at LGBT POV raises the possibility that Perry could be next.
There’s been quite a bit of debate about the effectiveness of these glitter bombs — which are now apparently being coordinated by “glitteratti” from GetEQUAL — in advancing LGBT equality. We won’t wade into that debate here, but if someone does decide to glitter-bomb Perry, we just hope they do a better job than they did on Bachmann in the video below.
As much fun as the glitter bombs seem, they are pretty lame. No one except those who toss them seem to know they even happened. The mainstream press didn’t give much ink to the sparkling sprinkle of Michelle “Crazy Eyes” Bachmann, and I doubt that this is an effective strategy.
Physically assaulting the candidates is not going to change their viewpoints, if anything it will make them even more virulently anti-LGBT rights! A better tactic would be to form a super-pac and create media campaigns targeted directly against them. Might cost more money, but way more effective.
I think the glitter bomb is brilliant because it’s funny, fabulous, and full of commentary all at the same time. Really, it’s kind of like me, but in very small, shiny form. Also, one should avoid using legal terms when the extent of one’s training is Judge Judy reruns. ‘Assault’ requires causing bodily injury, threatening imminent bodily injury, or physical contact that is offensive. I’m afraid you’re 0-3 there. I think I’ll make a website with crosshairs on it, targeting those worthy of a glitter bomb. What say ye now, GOP?