- Kentucky Senate candidate Rand Paul has Tea Party support
The Tea Party candidate for Texas governor, Debra Medina, peaked several weeks before the primary and came in third. But in other places, candidates supported by the Tea Party are doing well, and many of them hold anti-gay views.
This weekend at the Utah Republican convention, three-term incumbent Sen. Bob Bennett polled third and will not appear on the state’s primary ballot.
One of the reasons cited was Bennett’s 1993 vote for Roberta Achtenberg, a lesbian, to be an undersecretary at HUD under Bill Clinton.
In Florida, a candidate supported by the Tea Party, Marco Rubio, was polling ahead of Gov. Charlie Crist in a U.S. Senate race. So Crist left the Republican Party and is running as an independent. Now, donors are asking Crist for their money back.
Rubio will headline an anti-gay dinner next week for a group associated with Focus on the Family, according to the Huffington Post.
As an independent, Crist now holds a 5-point lead, according to Fox News.
Tea Party activists are also setting their sites on Kentucky. Rand Paul, son of Texas Congressman Ron Paul, is running against the secretary of state. Paul now has the backing of Sarah Palin and Focus on the Family founder James Dobson as well as Tea Party activists. The primary is May 18.
Rand Paul has taken a staunch stand against same-sex marriage.
The TRUE TeaParty activists are NOT anti-gay. In fact, most TRUE TeaParty activists are quite Libertarian in nature, meaning that they probably don’t care what someone else is doing as long as it is not detrimental to others.
I think you have mistaken Teaocons for TeaPartiers. There is a huge difference and the two can’t be lumped into one group as they are truly different.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=teaocon
Ron and Rand Paul are not anti-gay by any stretch of the imagination. Check out https://www.texemarrs.com/alert_ron_paul_pro_gay.html to see the heat Ron Paul took for voting against a ban on gay marriage. He was just one of a few Republicans to have the courage to stand up to the religious crusaders. If you wanna discuss being anti-gay, consider talking about Sen. Lindsey Graham (R). Sen. Graham is very anti-gay, has never been married or had children, and is rumored by very credible sources to be gay himself. Just google “Lindsey Graham Gay”
Tea-partiers are anti-gay? Rand Paul is anti-gay? I couldn’t think of anything further from the truth. These people are libertarians. They are for small government and individual rights. Is this article written in the bizzarro world?
Why is everyone so blind. You can claim the average tea-partier is tolerant all you want. but that doesn’t change the fact that they push candidates who are eerily bigoted.
Anti-gay or Anti-gay marriage? Or have they openly and fully expressed their concerns? How come fears of the tyranny of majority come out when the majority in congress is the majority that stands to be thwarted? They (the democrats the majority in both houses) call the Tea party Astroturf but look at their supporters and the talk they put before the people. They (the democrats) tell us the power in this country is being used by the elite (even upto the present) but they are the ones vested with that power so how can they be anything but the people being bought and sold? They ask us to vote for them but they don’t want us to vote for the people being bought and sold so how can we vote for them? You can put out the idea that the tea party is all and completely racist or bias in some form but the same could be done for the traditionally racist democrat party. There are people associated with every current group of politics that are racist or bias in some form. Even Obama has a strong association to racism. You’ll probably say the same thing for Bush because he’s great to blame and talk shit about but his association was a historic association that one would put on his state. Obamas was much closer. Jeremiah Wright. It ended only when he ran for president. Obama can act like he wasn’t aware of course but only a imbecile would believe that. The man was Harvard trained. He’s the president. If he’s that gullible he needs to step down as it can’t help with foreign affairs. I won’t say their biased individuals in the tea party but I will point out that their are biased individuals in democratic party as well.
“Concerned Says:
Why is everyone so blind. You can claim the average tea-partier is tolerant all you want. but that doesn’t change the fact that they push candidates who are eerily bigoted.”
And yet still they take a stand against bigoted politicians such as Barrack Obama
Ron Paul is against gay marriage and has stated it should be left up to the states, hence his vote against a federal marriage law. That doesn’t make him one bit pro gay. Ron Paul is still a Republican lackey.
He supports the Defense of Marriage Act, and opposes the extension of federal marriage benefits to include same-sex couples. In 1999, he supported an amendment that would have withdrawn federal support for adoptions by unmarried couples.
That doesn’t make him a champion of gay rights. It makes him an anti-federalist and nothing more.
Rand Paul’s anti-gay stance to which I am referring is his position against same-sex marriage. On social issues such as these, he is NOT libertarian. The libertarian position would be to remove government from the decision of whom to marry.
The very website that you linked to in order to fully describe Rand Paul as being anti-gay marriage specifically outlines his stance. He’s against the government defining marriage PERIOD. For a heterosexual couple or a homosexual one.
Stop looking for validation from a state system that has victimized you for centuries. Embrace freedom and liberty.
I might suggest for any of you who do not believe that the Tea Bag Party is gay friendly…
Check out some Tea Party sites…………you will quickly find they are pretty open about authentic tea baggers. If you can find a site of this group that promotes the GLBTQ community, please post it here.
David-
The link you provide exhibiting Rand Paul’s “anti-gay stance” actually explains how Rand Paul is not anti-gay! He, like most libertarians, are against the government being involved in the marriage process at all.
The Tea Partiers stand for FREEDOM and LIBERTY – but only if you are a White Heterosexual Christian.
I presume the Debra Medina Facebook page hates gays and lesbians. Don’t get me wrong, I am not accusing the Debra Medina Facebook page of being anti-gay or anti-lesbian, it is just that the Debra Medina Facebook page hates decent centrist conservative Americans committed to traditional values and who respect the ethos of the United States Constitution and there must be plenty of gays and lesbians who are traditionalist conservatives and that is presumably why the Debra Medina Facebook page would hate them. There were for example some notable gays and lesbians involved in the Third Reich, so if one is a gay or a lesbian and believes Jews should be exterminated, presumably one would be a happy camper on the Debra Medina Facebook page. I am not too sure why this is going on but maybe Dr Alan D Price PhD would know why, as he is a clinical psychologist and he regularly posts on the Debra Medina Facebook page, and it seems to be endorsed by the State of Hawaii Dept of Health of which Dr Price is an employee. Perhaps Lt Governor James R ” Duke ” Aiona Jr of Hawaii, could explain why the Hawaii Department of Health, in particular the Adult Mental Division seems to be more interested in carrying on where Hitler left off in exterminating the Jews and helping al-Qaeda blow up US airliners than caring for people suffering from mental illness, it is all very puzzling.
You can claim your “Libertarian” standing all you want, but your actions speak louder than your quote unquote words.
You can find hate everywhere, ie: your reference to the Third Reich, however, in general gays and lesbians are tolerant people. I am so over the Tea Party/ Conservatives making all of this reference to traditional values, when they are out there breaking every one of them. Come on, get over yourselves. You are either a descent person or not. All of this passing judgement does not make you that…Gays, Lesbians, straights, pinks, blacks, purples….it doesn’t matter what you are it matters who you are….tolerance for difference makes a good person, not intolerance and a “God” complex. How bout leaving judgements to “Him” and just live your life as you see fit and allow the rest of us to live ours the way we see fit. All peoples should have the same rights no matter what they believe.