Gay marriage bigots' testimony remixed [VIDEO]

Posted by Evan Derkacz at 12:56 PM on April 13, 2007.

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Last month, as Connecticut debated the issue of same-sex marriage, wise-crackers on the intertubes were busy remixing testimony from those who believe that allowing people who love each other to make their union legal are responsible for everything from rainy days to the rapture, give testimony.

Bobby Muckle, VP of "Connecticut Right to Life Corporation," actually manages to make anti-gay bigotry sound almost sweet and nostalgic... almost. He then ends with a rather clumsy analogy between Global Warming and same-sex marriage.

In the second video Joan P. Haugen, resident, whips out her Linguistobigotry.

The gays killed "gay!"

She's followed by a parade of sweet-talking Nazi-era thinkers. I use "thinkers" very very liberally here.

Tagged as: gay marriage, right wing

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marriage equality wins [Report this comment] Posted by: MikeCT on Apr 14, 2007 4:10 AM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Glad you enjoyed my videos and could share the wit and wisdom of Connecticut's religious right! Here's my blog diary on the subject. Fortunately, the wackos pushed the CT Judiciary Committee over the edge and they voted for the marriage equality bill 27-15 this week! [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] » RE: marriage equality wins Posted by: reval » RE: marriage equality wins Posted by: Vik Can't decide which is scarier [Report this comment] Posted by: xbj on Apr 14, 2007 10:48 AM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] The rest of the bunch that proved without a shadow of any doubt that there really ARE Americans that are stupider than Bush, or the one guy that's as smart as Bush. Pathetic. Is America really the stupidest country on the planet, or is this just the cream of the crop? There is nothing so dangerous to all of mankind as the indomitable small mind of little intelligence. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] » RE: Can't decide which is scarier Posted by: SweettP2063 Canadians don't have freedom of speech...? [Report this comment] Posted by: CanuckKid on Apr 14, 2007 12:45 PM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Where the heck did they get that idea? I've lived here for just about all my life, and this is news to me... [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] » RE: Canadians don't have freedom of speech...? Posted by: xbj Phil [Report this comment] Posted by: subue on Apr 14, 2007 6:01 PM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] http://www.familyresearchinst.org/ [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] Anti-gay science... [Report this comment] Posted by: fanny666 on Apr 16, 2007 8:54 AM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Genius [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] Where do they live? [Report this comment] Posted by: SgtCedar on Apr 16, 2007 10:42 AM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] The story one man told about a woman going to Australia to marry a dolphin raises one question did she move into the pool with him or did he move to a house in America? Just because people sometimes do stupid thing does not mean everything anyone does with which you do not agree is morally wrong. I did not see the story since I never watch Fox News but did the network present the dolphin story as a joke or did they make it a moral crusade? [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] » RE: Where do they live? Posted by: Bbear41 Men should be free to marry men,..... [Report this comment] Posted by: tap17x on Apr 16, 2007 11:46 AM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] ........and anyone should be free to marry a dolphin or a chicken or a cat. But no one should be allowed to marry a member of the religious right, because they might breed and give birth to a horrible mutant who looks sort of human but has no brain and can't think, just like its parents. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] yep, gay Canadian cliques control all speech [Report this comment] Posted by: sclamont on Apr 17, 2007 9:21 PM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] The Canadian woman they had on is nuts - while there were certainly members of the queer community in Canada who didn't want or feel the need to have marriage equality, many did, and about 60% of Canadians supported them in their quest when the law was passed. Since then, the level of support has gone up, YHWH has not vapourized the country, families have not disintigrated, and as far as I can tell, heterosexuals are still getting married and having babies (not always in that order). As for freedom of speech, there was plenty of it during and after the legal debates, no one was shot for offering an opinion. Shocking but true - kind of almost like a democracy, eh? [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5]

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