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Salon.com
DECEMBER 2, 2009 9:36PM

I Don't Mind "the Gays,"

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Rules for "right" leaning politicians:

1. Remove left foot from mouth

2. Take a deep cleansing breath

3. Insert right foot into mouth (your own mouth, Sen. Craig! your own!) 

4. Repeat 

 What's that you say?  Gay rights in conservative Utah?  Home of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints headquarters?  Yep.  Finally, the city of salt, Salt Lake City, has become the first city in Utah to adopt gay right measures that barrs landlords and employers from discriminating based on sexuality and the church itself is supporting the measure.  A small glimmer of hope and light as the church also is backing a similar statewide measure. Can I get an Amen?  

The measure has even been supported by Senator Chris Buttars who has switched feet in his mouth enough times to have athlete's foot of the mouth. Last year, the NAACP called for his resignation because of his comments about a controversial bill: "This baby is black, I'll tell you, said Buttars. "This is a dark and ugly thing."

On the subject of gays, male and female, he can also be quoted as saying gays are: "the greatest threat to America going down." "I believe they will destroy the foundation of the American society",he said in February. "In my mind, it's the beginning of the end. Sodom and Gomorrah was localized. This is worldwide."

I guess he must be softening up as evidenced by his latest statement on homosexuals to the press as he was explaining why he opposes their being able to adopt: "I meet with the gays here and there. They were in my house two weeks ago. I don't mind gays. But I don't want 'em stuffing it down my throat all the time. Certainly not in my kid's face."  

We can only assume that he does actually come up for air in between changing feet, but then an oxygen-starved brain would explain alot!

 

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The quote is priceless . . . and I find it interesting that he had the gays at his house recently . . . are there that few of them in Utah?
Owl, lmao! I hadn't thought of it from that angle!

Walk Away, you could be right. Another angle that occurs to me in the way he says he had them over, and this might only be understood in the mormon culture, perhaps he had thought they were missionaries and was just being a good mormon by taking his turn in feeding them.
Reminds me of the old saying "You just can't make this stuff up!"
Ugh! These idiots do make for some jolly good folly, though. Must admit.
They should definitely follow your instructions. Hopefully they will put that into law.

Fine post, zashin.
Rated.
Touche' JK! :)

True on both counts grif and kellygrrrl!
Thanks Thoth! Got it straight from the Politikin For Idiots handbook! I swear! :)
Like I mentioned on Cap'n Parrotdead's post, with a name like Buttars, he shouldn't be attacking gays. Rated
"greatest threat to America going down", bwahahaha. He's actually quite witty, what with the throat-stuffing reference and all. But the black baby bit, I don't get the joke in that...
Good point Trudge! Cap'n and I are doing a "he said, she said" today except we both have the same point of view. :))
Thanks Robin! ;)

sums it up for me!
Oh, Utah politics!!! I miss it so much. It is eclipsed only by Alaska politics and our beauty queen Sarah Palin!!! Rated
LOL! It's a close race there I think, Ralph. :)
Teeheehee!! Of course, getting stuffed down the throat all the time is just wrong, sometimes you have to take it up the as...I mean, eek!!!

;D

Rated.
What a jerk. He speaks of people with same sex preferences as if they are sub-human, like animals.
Yeah, I will definitely give an Amen to the state of Utah finally considering giving equal rights to all their citizens. And a Hallelujah, too, for good measure. Let's hope the rest of the nation will eventually see that being gay doesn't make you any less of an American, and that we are all entitled to the pursuit of our own happiness.
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wow, good luck Utah (or salt Lake City rather).
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Aww, come on Tink, what were you trying to say? hehe

He does indeed Apache and one gets the feeling that it's not just gays he feels that way about.

Shan, wouldn't it be nice if it just caught fire and spread all over the place. Imagine treating all cititzens as....citizens! What a concept!

Thanks Jesse, we could all use a little luck. :)
I detect in his choice of words..."America going down", "stuff it in my face", etc...a, how shall we say it, unresolved sexual
psychodynamic situation in his psyche?

As for the Mormons, they are a pleasant bunch with no
blatant stupidities in their superstitions,
so we an perhaps expect "tolerance",
even pro-action from them...
Why don't these people see that if gays had equal rights they wouldn't be "cramming it down our throats" all the time? Of course, they don't seem to have a problem with trying to cram their religion down the throats of others. Sheeshk!
I believe you are right James, on his psyche and about mormons. We do expect better behavior, as a general rule, from them, but there always has to be atleast one exception.

I guess, Michael, it's sometimes too hard to see the obvious, especially when it doesn't serve your own agenda.
"I don't want them stuffing it down my mouth? How would he like it? Talk about using double entendres. Salt Lake City has a vibrant gay community. Like the topic of polygamy, no one talks about them.
True Rainee, there is a great gay community here. Despite the Buttars and others who would prefer to live with blinders on!
Just another trashy bigot who got to big for his britches.