Bill Frist says "Gay marriages are going to spread like wildfire"

[CatWoman]

if the constitution isn't amended to band it.

:eyes:

What are we talking about here, a veneral disease? The plague?

What a jerk.

[eissa]

1. Next thing you know

those damned coloreds will want to vote, and then our women folk will start demanding equal pay!

[CatWoman]

5. and our 40 acres

PLUS our mules :D

[Kahuna]

19. That we never got!

:P


:hi:

[revree]

2. What is he so afraid of?

His own homophobia or his own homosexual tendencies?

I hope they do spread like wildfire. This goddamned world needs more love and less right wing war and violence.

[arcane1]

3. and...?

that's a problem why...?

Is Frist married? I wonder if anyone will ask him how this has hurt his marriage...

[Kelvin Mace]

4. Sounds great to me...

can I help pour gasoline on the fire?

David Allen
Publisher, CEO, Janitor
Plan Nine Publishing
http://www.plan9.org

[Mattforclark]

14. That's what I was going to say

except I was going to say "good" rather than "great."

[BlueEyedSon]

Freedom will run rampant if we don't constitutionalize slavery!

Oh no!

[demnan]

6. People in love

rarely harm kittens!

[Bunny]

7. Dear God.

Next thing you know he'll be telling everyone to lock up their wives and daughters! What a douchebag!

[saltpoint]

8. Relax, Bill. Everything's going to be ok.

Pour yourself some tequila, turn on some Janis Joplin, lose your laundry & kick back.

Everything's going to be just fine.

[CityZen-X]

9. He Should Say...

that heterosexual Christian marriages are, and have been burning in a divorce wildfire!
That's the fire that should concern them the most. Probably what they are afraid of is that Gay marriages will out perform theirs!

[Andy_Stephenson]

20. Termite and I have been together

18 years this August.

[GOPisEvil]

10. *cough* *cough*...I do believe I am catching THE GAY!!!!

*cough**cough*...

:eyes: Fuck off Frist!

[eissa]

13. Hurry!

Run to the nearest Southern Baptist church! They'll cure you in no time.

[kayell]

18. Ignore Eissa, Head IMMEDIATLY to your nearest GAY recruiting center

mention that kayell sent you, and I will get gay recruitment green stamps towards that hot tub I want.

[Pikku]

25. What?! No toaster oven?

I'm confused by Frist's comment. Bush wants to spend how many billions of dollars on marriage promotion, yet Frist is afraid that marriage might "spread like wildfire"?

So... confused...

[TreasonousBastard]

27. So ya mean...

even though I'm straight, I can get in on this gay marriage thing?

Damn! I feel it already. Wildfire headin' this way!

(I think I need to replace those drapes...)

[MO_Dem]

32. Maybe the good doctor could

develop a vaccine to prevent us heteros from catching fire!

[Auntie Bush]

30. ROTFL n/t

[maveric]

11. "Dogs and cats living together!"

Locusts will devour all of our crops! The oceans will rise!
OMG!!! We cant let this happen!!!

[MO_Dem]

31. Yeah!

And lions might lay down with lambs (I think it says that somewhere in the Bible?) heehee

[salinen]

12. If there is a constitutional amendment

banning gay marriages, Christian intolerance will spread like wildfire.

[nostamj]

15. he is close to right

Gay marriages are spreading like wildfire

and the toothpaste is NOT going back in the tube.

the majority of americans has no interest in a fight with gays. their jobs are in jeopardy. their children are in Iraq. their SS is threatened. they got nothing from the tax cut and everything else is costing more anyway.

and the increasing visibility of these very wonderfully average people making loving commitments is more powerful and valuable than 10 seasons of Will & Grace or QEftSG.

extremists like Frist and Santorectum will look like fools.

[spanone]

16. Bill Frist is my senator and he's not a jerk, he's an asshole.

His family is one of our wealthiest. The family business is HCA or Hospital Corporation of America. Which has spent years defending itself against federal prosecution for over-charging medicare. NO doubt why he was so gung ho for the new medicare bill he stands to make more fortunes. He also boasts that he didn't vote until he was in his late thirties. What a dear. You may be right he is a jerk.

[GOPisEvil]

17. Didn't the CEO go to prison for Medicare and Medicaid fraud?

Somebody high up in the food chain went to the pokey...

[spanone]

21. don't know but 14 felonies cost HCA over 1.7 billion dollars

in the longest and largest federal investigation for health care fraud
http://www.bcbst.com/about/news_center/HCA/hca_editorial10903.shtm edit-repair link

[OneTwentyoNine]

36. AFAIK the CEO is his brother,paid millions in fraud fines

Doubt that any of them went to jail,you know how utterly uncouth it is to send someone who wears a suit and tie and commits crimes to jail!!

The Frist family which is HCA Columbia paid umpteen millions in fines for ripping off Medicare. Jail time? No longer able to process Medicare claims? Nah...only working class slobs get jail time and tough sentences,rich assholes like the Frist family walk away with millions in their pockets for doing the crime.

David

[InhaleToTheChief]

22. The crazy thing is just how soon these bigotted pigs...

...are going to look just like the racist, white-supremacist jackasses in the sixties who fought against interracial marriages.

Or the misogynistic, chauvenistic trolls who fought against women's rights to drive, to vote, to show their ankles in public....

Or the evil racist monsters who fought for their rights to own other human beings so they could get richer faster. It goes on and on.

It truly amazes me that people so preoccupied with public image could be so shortsighted. It is entirely conceivable that these right-wing champions of marriage-protection will look like Strom Thurmond within their own lifetime.

To say nothing of the "vast majority" of Americans who for some unknown reason have a problem with gay marriage.

What the hell is wrong with people?

[Lexingtonian]

23. More arson of the kind, please!

The more the merrier. Flaming homos running rampant....the apocalypse is nigh....

[shtinkycat]

24. this will work for us

My brother-in-law is a staunch repub. He said today "I don't think I can vote for B*sh, he's gone too far with this gay amendment thing." There are a lot of reasonable people out there who will find remarks like Frist's just too far over the top.

[Deja Q]

26. In honor of Frist, I've dedicated a new googlebomb...

If you don't see it now in the sig, give me 2 earth minutes... :D

And it was tough deciding which site to choose from...

[historian]

28. Ill take that anytime

over the spread of the tammy faye bakers!!!! What an idiotic issue - if two people want to get married let them - if they arent disturbing you why should it bother you?
idiots

[CatWoman]

29. What makes his comments especially insane

We are still feeling the aftershocks of Brittney's "wedding".

Wasn't it touching??

Good ole family values make you tear up every time.

[nostamj]

33. this is a HUGE loser for the bushies

The Second Stonewall Rebellion

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1191047

[yellowcanine]

34. I hope so but I'm not going to take Billy Bob Frist's word on it.

Suppose they do pass the amendment and get it ratified in about 5 years. What happens to all of those lesbian and gay marriages that occured before the amendment passed? They are legal because a constitutional amendment doesn't apply retroactively. Now what Billy Bob? Guess youse didn't think this through too well did you?

[gasperc]

35. infidelity, drug abuse, divorce have all spread like wildfire

are we writing amendments for that?