NEWS: Black Governor of Texas signs public bill at Buddhist temple

[Bluebear]

OOPS, guess that was a typo. That should read WHITE GOVERNOR OF TEXAS SIGNS PUBLIC BILL AT CHRISTIAN CHURCH!


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Austin Chronicle
Perry schmoozes with gay bashers


A year from now, observers will look back on the campaign season and say the governor's race did not begin with a stump speech behind a podium in some anonymous hotel ballroom. It began in a church school gymnasium on a Sunday afternoon in June.

Gov. Rick Perry was at Fort Worth's Calvary Christian Academy on Sunday to sign two bills. One was the parental consent bill, which requires minor girls to get parental permission before an abortion. The other was what Perry chose to call the "defense of marriage" constitutional amendment, which will go to Texas voters in November. In his speech, Perry said it was important for Texas to protect the sanctity of marriage against the encroachment of court cases that would turn the sacred institution into a transaction.

"Activist judges have used the bench as a platform to advance a narrow agenda in utter opposition to the laws of the land and the views of the majority," Perry told the cheering crowd. "These actions have brought legal uncertainty to an issue on which the people are anything but uncertain. And more than that, these acts pose a direct threat to the institution that is the very bedrock of society and the laws designed to protect the institution of marriage in Texas and states like it."

Perry said he could have signed the bills in the parking lot of a Wal-Mart, but it wasn't the location that was the eye-opener on Sunday. It was Perry's backslapping companions on stage at the event. Consider the words offered by televangelist Rod Parsley, who preceded Perry and praised him for his godly stand, saying the effects of the homosexual agenda in American were substantial. Most homosexuals were anything but happy and carefree, Parsley told the crowd – many suffer from low self-esteem and depression.

"Gay sex is a veritable breeding ground for disease," Parsley went on. "Only 1 percent of the homosexual population in America will die of old age. The average life expectancy for a homosexual in the United States of America, discounting AIDS, is 42 years of age. Their heterosexual counterpart is 75. A lesbian can only expect to live to be 45 years of age. Her heterosexual counterpart is 79. Homosexuals represent 2 percent of the population, yet today they're carrying 60 percent of the known cases of syphilis. We must not chance an untested social experiment with the security of our children." ....

http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2005-06-10/pols_naked4.html

[AndreaCG]

1. ROFL

Lesbians only live to 45 years of age??? And gay men to 42 EXCLUDING AIDS? I could see a figure lower than the average heterosexual man only if INCLUDING the AIDS epidemic. Also is this for the US only, cause AIDS deaths in other countries, especially African ones, are largely heterosexual.

[Bluebear]

2. Belated welcome to DU, Andrea!

[rkc3]

3. It's funny to us because it's ri-goddamned-diculous, but to the fundies

in the pews, it's the word of God given to them by their great and holy preacher who would never make shit up.

I expect the defense of marriage bill to pass overwhelmingly.

[rurallib]

4. Where does that dickhead Parsley get his "facts"?

As for the low self-esteem and depression I'd guess that if anyone were told very minute of everyday by most all "authorities" that they are a useless miserable, sinful, depraved, scurilous piece of excrement eventually it would get to you after a while.
Sure nice to see compassionate people like Rod Parsley shaping public policy.

[Bluebear]

6. And the governor of the state endorsing that rhetoric

Indeed, Perry said maybe gays should find a more lenient state in which to live.

[killbotfactory]

5. they are a big tent party

you know, like a kkk meeting, or religious revival heal-a-thon celebration.

[indepat]

7. Your caption is wickedly funny

[musette_sf]

8. Parsley was there?!?!?!?!?

What, did John Hagee get stuck in his chair again over at the Golden Corral?

Parsley's New Cool Big Buddy these days is Kenneth Blackwell.

Be afraid, Texans, be very afraid.

On second thought, it looks like things haven't changed much since I left.