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Laura Bush, Colin Powell and Dick Cheney Featured in…New Gay Rights Ad

Feb. 20, 2013 1:17pm Billy Hallowell

The Respect for Marriage Coalition, a group pushing to end the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), is likely to catch the ire of social conservatives with a new spot that features prominent Republican voices speaking out in favor of same-sex marriage. The individuals shown in the clip are former Vice President Dick Cheney, First Lady Laura Bush and former Sec. of State Colin Powell. President Barack Obama’s comments about gays and lesbians from last month’s inaugural address are also included.

The group, which is a combined effort of the Human Rights Campaign and Freedom to Marry, is planning to spend $1 million to air the spot as well as to place a print version featuring quotes from these Republicans in prominent newspapers. In addition to full-page ads in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post, these blurbs will also appear online.

Respect for Marriage Coalition Features Prominent Republicans in Gay Marriage Ad | Laura Bush, Colin Powell

Photo Credit: YouTube

The video ad is entitled, “Leadership,” and it features a voice over that advances the notion that Americans are increasingly becoming supportive of gay rights and same-sex marriage (public opinion polls corroborate this claim).

“None of us would want to be told we can’t marry the person we love. That’s why a growing majority of Americans believe it’s time to allow marriage for gay and lesbian couples,” the ad proclaims.

Bush is then shown in a 2010 CNN interview saying, “When couples are committed to each other and love each other then they ought to have the same sort of rights that everyone has.” In a separate CNN exchange from last year, Powell notes, “Allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.” And Cheney says that “freedom means freedom for everyone.”

Watch the controversial spot, below:

(H/T: CNN)

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Totally Domestic
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 5:22pm
Just sickening! Laura Bush is a Pro Abort also. All three of them make good Sodom and Gommorahites.

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The Big Mick
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 5:20pm
Has it Struck anyone else that the Prhomo response to this thread has been tepid and poorly done?
Usually the Militant Prhomos are all over a piece like this like dungbeetles on….stuff…aggressively and brutally. Where are they?

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The Big Mick
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 5:16pm
The Observant Student is invited to note DOSEOFREALITY’s 2:40p

“[Prhomos] are not trying to restrict the rights, freedom and happiness of anyone”.
Naw, not at all, just trying to SILENCE any who dare say “PERVERSION!” and thus abrogate their Constitutional 1st Amendment RIGHTS! No, no kind of attempt to restrict going on HERE at all, no.

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wmcritter
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 4:47pm
Freedom does mean freedom for everyone. That means you have the freedom to call yourself married, call yourself the Easter Bunny, or call yourself the Queen of England. But I also have the freedom to refuse to recognize that. That is the true freedom that is at stake here, my right to say “no, you are not the Queen of England” or to say “no, that is not a real marriage”. Seriously, if you want to say “I’m a dude married to a dude” or “I’m married to my car” or “I’m the Easter Bunny”, go for it, I don’t care. I only care when the government eliminates my right to say “no, that is not a real marriage and I will not treat it as such”.

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The Big Mick
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 4:30pm
YUUPERGUY 3:57pm Re: “Fall of the Ancients”

Don’t confuse multiplicity of causes with evidence FOR NO cause and effect.
It can be argued that an Empire or Civilization that is intent on self-gratification by more and more debased means is ill equipped to make good decisions on the Political-Military front.
Officers become less effective, honorable, trustworthy, capable; troops less professional and more mercenary; decisions are made to keep “The Mob” pacified and tax revenue flowing rather than for sound economic and political interests. Less Hedonistic more “Hungry” Cultures on the borders sense weakness and become more aggressive.
Power wielded for Personal Pleasure is rarely wielded for the Good of the State or the People.

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turokhan
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 3:57pm
I can’t wait for the day where it is as hard to find someone who is opposed to gay marriage as it is now to find someone opposed to interracial marriage. You’re on the wrong side of history, people. In fact, one of these days the majority of the population is going to take the Bible as seriously as you take Greek myths, and then maybe we can have SOME peace and harmony in this country.

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- The Big Mick
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 4:52pm
  ROFL.
  Ah Turok, you’re such a silly boy(?).
  The Observant Student will note Turdrock here seems unaware that ISLAM world wide, is on the RISE. In the event he is prophetic about the demise of the CHRISTIAN Sacred Writings, he will, on that day, find Shitrear Law with its Boot firmly on his pervie NECK as it beheads him.
  
  But before THAT day happens, if he is prophetic about the Near Universal (throughout the US not, YET, Muslim) Yen for QearMarriage, he will find it equally “hard to find someone who is opposed to” Polygamy, Incest, and Bestiality. And at that point Pedophilia and Pederasty will have been “re-branded” as well.
  
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Carlinpa
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 3:54pm
We have INDIVIDUAL rights NOT collective rights.. You don’t have a right to impose yourself into any situation or any church sacrament. I’m a Caucasian… can I just declare that I am an African American, to get the privileges that get..affirmative action? why not? That’s not fair..

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- turokhan
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 3:58pm
  It’s not about a freaking religious institution. It’s about taxes and child custody and insurance benefits and being allowed to make medical decisions for the person you love.
  
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- The Big Mick
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 4:42pm
  Carl,
  Khan is HOSING you and he knows it, the hypocrite.
  The Observant Student will note that his CLAIMED Agenda: “It’s about taxes and child custody and insurance benefits and being allowed to make medical decisions for the person you love” is EASILY, that’s EA SIL LY, met by fairly minor changes in Tax Law, Child Custody Law, and Insurance and Medical Regulations. NONE of it needs the STATE’S Imprimatur for Same Sex Marriage–NONE of it!
  So why IS Urkan so militant about queermarriage? Because it THEN places the Power of the STATE at the disposal of All Those who want to SILENCE YOU!
  Urkan is the worst kind of Collectivist Statist Tyranny and is desperate to silence anyone who dares call perversion perversion.
  Note his subsequent longing for all such to just disappear.
  The Thoughtful as well as Observant Student will note that Urkan rejects the ENTIRE Moral Value of “The Bible” on the SOLE grounds that it rejects HIS pet perversion.
  There goes “do as you would be done by”, “give to the poor”, “help those in need” and “turn the other cheek.” All just “Myths” not to be taken seriously by the Sophisticated Pervie.
  
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- girlnurse
  Posted on February 21, 2013 at 3:20am
  turoCON: In the hospital or ahead of time you can deem ANYONE your medical representative. You don’t have to be married to do that…pretty much everything else too. The other fallacy is that they only let in next of kin to see you if youre very ill…thats not true either…at ALL the hospitals I ever worked in (many) we always allowed close partners in..no matter what. …time to stop listening to the bull.
  
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Remember_Benghazi
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 3:46pm
When a criminal is brought to sentencing, the judge doesn’t say, “you committed a sin.” He or she says, “you broke the law.” People against gay marriage have to provide legal reasoning for why it should remain against the law, and do so without saying they believe it’s a sin. Sin has no legal barring on our judicial system, thankfully.

I challenge anyone to justify banning two loving, consensual adults from being married without saying it is against your religion, or because you think it’s icky. Your religion has no relevance to people who don’t follow your religion.

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2bfree
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 3:40pm
Should I vomit now…or save it for later?

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walnutportconservative
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 3:38pm
Get rid of the wishy washy politicians within the GOP. Stand on principle. Do what is right in the eyes of the Lord. Fear of men will surely be a snare.

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- turokhan
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 4:00pm
  A politician doing anything in their job based on what is “right in the eyes of the lord” is extremely immoral. Religion is not allowed in government. Period.
  
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- The Big Mick
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 5:00pm
  TuRok you ARE a HOOT!
  
  “We hold THESE truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they endowed by their CREATOR with certain unalienable rights…..to secure THESE [endowed by Creator] rights GOVERNMENTS are instituted among men.
  At the very INSEMINATION of OUR “Government” the WHOLE Raison d’ etre, its FOUNDATIONAL LEGITIMACY was BASED SOLEY in a RELIGIOUS Premise—CREATOR GOD ENDOWED rights!
  
  The Observant Student will note TurdRock here seems AGIN “the free exercise thereof” when it comes to Religious Expression in Public.
  
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- The Big Mick
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 5:06pm
  Wally, it is apparent that Turdrock here is also unaware of the Great (maybe THE Greatest) Statesman Edmund Burke’s message to voters: “Your Representatives owes you, not his industry (hard work) only, but also his JUDGEMENT, and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
  What TR wants is ALL Christians out of the Public Square and Public Life so that the word “perversion” need never fall on his debased ear ever again. It is but a short step from there to the Phromo Run “Re-education” and “Work” Camps and from there to the Ovens.
  Far from being about EQUAL rights, TR’s Agenda is about ABROGATING the rights of all who dare call what he does perversion.
  
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battles
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 3:24pm
First Lady Laura Bush. If she is actually a born again believer as she is purported to be, she is going to be Last Lady Laura Bush in heaven. God has warned about embracing and accepting this perverted behavior in scripture and is most likely why America is currently crashing.

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Beachmastermax
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 3:23pm
Where to stick it, that is the question?

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hauschild
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 3:00pm
There’s very little as difficult to watch as RINO’s attempting to reposition their ideals.

How very unfortunate for traditional Americans.

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Beachmastermax
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 2:59pm
There is only one reason for the government to be involved in marriage and it is why they are involved.

For the nation to survive we need to procreate good dependable citizens. So the nation has an interest in this. The best way to insure this is to subsidize and promote the best system known to man, the marraige of one woman to one man. Since the woman usually subserviates her options to raise good dependable citizens she needs to be protected by the state since she gives up marketable skills. You get more marraiges and dependable offspring this way. This is the only reason for the state to be involved.

Homosexual relationships do not meet this need of the state and is why it is not in the states best interest to subsidize them (meaning special priveleges).

The result of calling both the same will be for the state to do exactly what many of you say, get out of the marraige business. This will happen when the POLYGAMY rights movement starts.

Then the feminist will have their Utopia, any woman that gets married and ends up destitute because the state no longer intervenes in “marraige” AKA divorce, it will be the woman’s fault for trusting a man in the first place.

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girlnurse
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 2:52pm
Yea Laura Bush came out FOR abortion too! Of course she waited until her husband was out of office. These RINOS are ALL PROGRESSIVES ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT TOOLS. Playing a part…playing a part…

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BlasberryStrat
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 2:47pm
The “great Colin Powell” has sure turned out to be a “turd in the colon”.

I wonder just what (or….how much money) it took for “The General” to turn in to “Captain Liberal”? You suppose the Black Pride movement simply washed away all his patriotism? I remember a “proud General Powell” who declined running for President because he feared for his and his family’s lives, and it was White Americans telling him “NO – please run – we need you”. Since Oby got in office, Colin must have decided the wood pile is pretty comfy.

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walnutportconservative
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 2:45pm
These three represent what the GOP will always be… Political Wind Socks.
Lets roll on principals. Do what is right in the eyes of the Lord.

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ZAP
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 2:45pm
Caesar wants to change the law http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blUymSWgmBE

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Jenny Lind
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 2:45pm
I do not know about Powell’s family, but I know Cheney has a gay daughter and they are close to the Bush’s. I believe they think they are being compassionate, and kind. Sadly that is what much of America is doing, they are thinking because they are being loving and kind that God will just up and change His mind and the commandments He gave us. Those who don’t believe in God, don’t care about what those who do, and discount the commandments. Sadly, for not standing up and saying we love these people too, but cannot accept the sin or equate it to God’s laws on marriage, we are the bad guys. So many do not understand why this great country is having so many probles, we have turned our backs on the laws of God. Evil has a pretty good hold on much of this country, and it is so sad and we will be judged for it.

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todd147
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 2:42pm
I’m not surprised. George Bush, Dick Cheney and Colin Powell created Obama. If they had not failed so monumentally, an Obama would never stand a chance. The bottom line is that mankind never could, and never will be able to govern himself. A ten year old knows what marriage is. We are living in the land of the Amorites. Colin Powell and Laura Bush also pro choice. Pay attention to the middle east and watch how the nations are aligning themselves. The war mentioned in Ezekiel 38 and 39 is about to take place and we have to be out of the picture for that to happen. To say that we are imploding would be the understatement of the century.

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Beachmastermax
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 2:40pm
I rest my case, since Ronaldus Magnus, there has been no difference between the parties. They have just been playing good cop, bad cop, on us.

Next time Laura Bush ask you to wear a pink bow, don’t forget to put your rainbow colored bow on to.

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- The Big Mick
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 5:07pm
  d’accord, B.
  
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walnutportconservative
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 2:33pm
It’s time the majority of Americans shut the gay agenda down, and get them back in the closet. They are self serving sexual perverts who are mentally ill in their thinking… plain and simple. These people are… queer… I mean… the parts just don’t fit. It is unnatural. I am sick and tired of the 2% or 3% of the Americans getting their wheels greased.

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- DoseofReality
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 2:53pm
  you do realize you are the last of your ilk dont you? just get out of the way and die already
  
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- The Big Mick
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 5:10pm
  DOSEofBathHouseSalts.
  Maybe WE are, but the RagaMuzzies are a RISING TIDE and THEY are going to CUT you.
  Unless you’re young enough and a good dancer. How ’bout it Dosboy, you a Baca Bazi boy candidate?
  
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The Big Mick
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 2:33pm
The Observant Student is invited to ponder EncinoMom’s 2:00 reply to me and the phrase “Your ancient myths have no place in dictating how others choose to live their lives”. Apparently InMom believes HIS(her?) “modern” myths SHOULD dictate what I am allowed to SAY. The Thoughtful Student has already identified InMom’s phrase “their bigotry belongs in their churches and bibles and nowhere else” as “case in point” of my premise that the Prhomos are REALLY about SILENCEING ANY “who dare call it perversion.”
Inmom want’s Christians OUT of the Public Square. He wants to DISCRIMINATE AGAINST us. He wants THE STATE to SILENCE the Voice of “SIN!” He is a TYRANT whose SOLE objective is to Abrogate OUR right to Free Speech so the Coals of Shame fall not on his perversion.

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- The Big Mick
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 2:34pm
  silencing
  
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Beachmastermax
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 2:33pm
I knew Powell was no Republican when he suggested giving Hussien some Kuwaiti Islands in order to avoid the first Gulf War. He was still a General then. What kind of General suggest giving the victims real estate to avoid a fight? I could see Patton doing that, can you?

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FlagWavingPatriot
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 2:32pm
Life’s instructions are really easy. TAB A goes into SLOT B.

Why are these people so hetrophobic?

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- The Big Mick
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 2:35pm
  rather “perverseophile-ic”
  
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- walnutportconservative
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 2:40pm
  Cheney has a daughter that is… unnatural in her sexual choice? Like… queer
  
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- DoseofReality
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 2:40pm
  they arent – they are not trying to restrict the rights, freedom and happiness of anyone….unlike the homophobes
  
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- en2deep
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 2:53pm
  Dick Cheney endorsed gay marriage before Obama, but the left despises him so much that they made no mention of it. When it comes to the American left it’s not about what it’s about who.
  
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- Beachmastermax
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 3:15pm
  As the comediaan Ron White says….”Things that make you go eeeeeeeeeeeeeeehhhhhhhhwwwwww (shudder, shudder)!!!!
  
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- walnutportconservative
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 3:22pm
  Dose,
  Their freedom to sodomize, brings wrath against my nation in which I live. And really, what they do in their privacy would not directly effect me or my children, but they want to include my children in their perversion. I am a responsible parent to seven children. Stop calling me a HOMOPHOBE! WHAT IN THE WORLD DOES THAT MEAN?? I am sick of the queers jamming their perversion down the throats of our society.
  
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- DoseofReality
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 3:39pm
  Walnut…not everyone believes in your mythology…you understand that right? To each their own…stop being so damn insecure and let other lead their lives as they see fit. Thankfully your mentality is coming to an end….
  
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- OldSurfRat
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 3:51pm
  A D1ck a Co1on a Bu$h
  Hey what kind of site is this?
  
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- lapitup
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 3:54pm
  Let’s speak plainly about this. Gay rights is nothing but a religious entity. That is exactly what it is. Thus they are pushing their religion down in to our mouths, saying we must accept them or else “there will be trouble”. Trust me the next religion to be thrust down our thoughts that we must conform is the Global warming agenda. Another political religious institution. The way our kids are accepting this type of stuff is amazing to me. “Most” the children of America want to be ruled over by tyrants, they have no idea what freedom is and do not know anything about courage, honor, loyalty or God. They will accept Gays and Clean Air agenda, but mention God and they all of a sudden become unglued.
  
  I work at a grocery store and I get groups of kids that come in every know and again and the way they treat us workers at the grocery store (including me) it amazes me, no common curtsey we minus well be there slave or enemy. Every-time I see such kids in the store I just let them do what they are going to do, because by the time they are my age (if they make it to my age) it is going to be 10x worse on them. You would have to have a gun just to protect yourself in that future.
  
  I am one of the few that is not being indoctrinated. I will not conform to the Gay Agenda I will not conform to the global warming propagandist, Agenda 21, the new world order, Obama, indoctrination, I will believe in God and protect my inalienable rights as I see fit, till the day I die.
  
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- AsatruPride1979
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 5:09pm
  Heteros indulge in putting their “tabs” elsewhere too.
  
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- danielmchick
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 5:17pm
  Gay rights is a religious issue? What? That’s the dumbest argument I’ve heard in a while. Keep spouting the Glenn Beck crazy points.
  
  Sex and marriage should only remain for procreation? So I guess hetero sex that includes other things than traditional, ******* intercourse should be banned, as well as sex and from sterile people. Sounds like you need to fix the cracks in your own glass house before trying to throw stones.
  
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- Thomas
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 5:54pm
  Homosexuals are already free to be homosexual but marriage is not a right but something God gave us between a man and a woman so no to that. If homosexuals want to create their own bond its okay with us, they can call it fruit salad or whatever but not marriage.
  
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- danielmchick
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 6:07pm
  You’re acting as though spiritual marriage and federal/state marriage licensing are the same thing.
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 6:26pm
  Powell wants Cheney and neither knows what a Bush is.
  
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- RIDEMODELS
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 9:32pm
  Gay men only act Gay so they can score chicks or to get Gov assistance…….The target of gay men and liberals are hot white women…..The End.
  
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- Jaycen
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 11:48pm
  I’ve been saying it for years – Nationalist Progressives. Just because they’re Republican, doesn’t mean they’re Constitutionalists.
  
  You can be patriotic and still be a Socialist. The Bushes and Chenies know it well.
  
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- Jaycen
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 11:53pm
  DoseofReality
  
  Hello, stupid. Homosexuals can live together and enjoy all the freedoms you enjoy. The fact that I choose not to accept, endorse and applaud their choice affects their rights not at all.
  
  You, however, seem to want to infringe on my right to speak my disdain for their choices. You are the disgusting one who is anti-freedom.
  
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- Jaycen
  Posted on February 21, 2013 at 12:07am
  DoseofReality
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 2:40pm
  they arent – they are not trying to restrict the rights, freedom and happiness of anyone….unlike the homophobes
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  Oh good, I love when my opponent starts off with name-calling. So, who died and made you the Queer-bait Avenger?
  
  Are you gay? Do you know gay people? Let me ask, how many people in your life do you know identify themselves via their sexuality?
  
  When someone walks around the office acting excessively macho, do you think that person’s a douche-bag? Why is it if somone behaves as if he’s flamboyantly gay you think the opposite?
  
  Why do homosexuals need recognition and acceptance in organizations such as the Boy Scouts? That organization is for boys as young as 6 years old. Do you think it’s appropriate to discuss
  ANY kind of sexuality with 6 year old boys? Please answer truthfully, because I’m DYING to hear your justify it.
  
  Seriously, why can’t homosexuals and their halfwaysexual friends speak honestly about the reasoning behind the agenda?
  
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