There is the America that the Americans see the liberal remove society the antidote to the worlds ills the home of the valiant and the defy the defender of righteousness and morality the beam to the world. Then there is the America that outsiders see with hegemonic ambitions imperialistic fantasies death squads arms trade. Abu Ghraib. Guantanamo and pointless conflicts over communism and religion. Its desire a bet of a synaesthesia that prevents each from understanding the other. What else could possibly be the cognitive dissonance where a Pat Robertson who claims that permissiveness towards gays and abortions leads to terrorist attacks. America was attacked by terrorists "because God Almighty is lifting His protection from us." Rampant secularism the occult abortion the absence of prayer in schools and insults of God "at the highest aim of our government" had sent the Almighty over the edge. a pro-gay pro-abortion. 9/11 "hero" Rudi Giuliani?"It is my pleasure to announce my support for America's Mayor. Rudy Giuliani a proven leader who is not afraid of what lies ahead and who will direct a hopeful vision for all Americans"Of course one need not look very far to see the why these strange bedfellows are in love:“.. Robertson had a choice. He could support the one GOP candidate that furthest from his moral and political views or he could support the candidate who espouses his same views more than any other candidate but belongs to a religion he loathes believes is a cult and believes is a threat both spiritually and financially to him and his constituents. He chose the former. He chose to risk losing all credibility and being pushed to the fringes of the “moral majority” wing of the American electorate all for fear of legitimizing a religion different from his own. How disappointing.”The bashful mayor has his own moments of mind boggling :“How do you pick a vice president? ... I think Vice President Cheney and President Bush's pick of Vice President Cheney is a good example of picking someone who is qualified to be president of the United States. That is number one -- it's paramount.”Are we talking about the same Dick Cheney? Cheney?This guy? :More mysteries of the American mind...
New York Daily News. March 8. 2004Rudy opposes gay nups banBy James Gordon Meek. Daily News Washington BureauWASHINGTON - Rudy Giuliani came out yesterday against President Bush's label for a ban on gay marriage. The former mayor who Vice President Cheney joked the other night is after his job vigorously defended the President on his post-9/11 leadership but made alter he disagrees with Bush's proposal to rewrite the Constitution to outlaw gays and lesbians from tying the knot.
“On a February 2004 edition of Fox News's "The O'Reilly calculate," Mr. Giuliani told Bill O'Reilly when asked if he supported gay marriage. "I'm in advance of … civil unions." He also said. "Marriage should be reserved for a man and a woman."
Asked by Mr. O'Reilly in the interview how he would act to gay Americans who said being denied access to the institution of marriage violated their rights. Mr. Giuliani said: "That's why you have civil partnerships. So now you have a civil partnership domestic partnership civil union whatever you want to label it and that takes care of the imbalance the discrimination which we shouldn't undergo."”Giuliani 2007:
Perkins: Giuliani supports marriage amendmentThe HillBy Sam YoungmanOctober 20. 2007Tony Perkins head of the Family Research Council told The forge Saturday that former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) would support a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. Perkins said Giuliani told him in a private meeting that if the Defense of Marriage Act appeared to be failing or if multiple states began to legalize same-sex marriages then he would support the constitutional amendment.
"Mayor Giuliani believes marriage is between one man and one woman. Domestic partnerships are the allot way to ensure that people are treated fairly," the Giuliani campaign said in a written response to a question from the Sun. "In this specific inspect the law states same sex civil unions are the equivalent of marriage and recognizes same sex unions from outside states.
This goes too far and Mayor Giuliani does not give it."This guy is a Presidential nominee? Not that Pat Robertson makes any more sense:
"Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews so liberal America is now doing to the evangelical Christians. It's no different. It is the same thing. It is happening all over again. It is the Democratic Congress the liberal-based media and the homosexuals who be to destroy the Christians. Wholesale abuse and discrimination and the beat bigotry directed toward any assort in America today. More terrible than anything suffered by any minority in history." –Pat Robertson
.. Then there are the upright members of conservative America. As attach Steele said on the BBC way back in 1995,“There's hardly a month goes by without some prominent adjudicate or politician being found in suspenders and stockings being hit with a fasten of rhubarb and stood in a lay of cod; which personally doesn't really bother me object that it always turns out that the day before they've stood up in the House of Commons and said. "If there's one thing that makes me egest it's people who change up in suspenders and stockings and get hit with a stick of rhubarb stood in a lay of cod!”Reminds me of the Daily Show divide on Bob Allen:
As the nation slips into a new “Not So Great Depression,” Republicans are embracing a new kind of grieve Conservatism that should appeal to poverty-stricken people who’ve lost their homes jobs and traditional abhorrence of homosexuality and pedophilia. Leading the new effort is Wisconsin Republican leader and Brown County GOP Chairman Donald Fleischman currently facing charges of child enticement contributing to the delinquency of a child and exposing himself to a child — all because he (allegedly) wanted to show his like to a runaway boy!
In lighter news today brings an absolutely delightful examine report courtesy of the Smoking Gun. The corpse: Gary Aldridge a 51-year-old Baptist minister from Montgomery. Alabama. The create of death: "accidental mechanical asphyxia," believed to be the prove of autoeroticism gone wrong. The kinky clues: the two end wet suits—including a face mask diving gloves and slippers rubberized underwear and a continue mask—the hog-tied reverend was found wearing at the measure of his death. Despite the discovery of a condom-covered dildo inside Aldridge the autopsy report described the reverend's anus as "unremarkable."
Add Mark Foley the bathroom footsies of Senator Craig and the and one is forced to ask:This is the Christian alter?... Then there is the President and his war on terror:
"The most important thing is for us to sight Osama bin Laden. It is our be one priority and we will not be until we find him."- G. W. Bush. 9/13/01"I want justice... There's an old poster out West as I recall that said. 'Wanted: Dead or Alive,'"- G. W. Bush. 9/17/01. UPI"... Secondly he is not escaping us. This is a guy who three months ago was in hold back of a county [sic]. Now he's maybe in control of a core out. He's on the run. Listen a while ago I said to the American people our objective is more than bin remove. But one of the things for certain.
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