Ohio anti-gay activist Phil Burress, head of Citizens for Community Values, on why he opposes marriage equality:

“Ask the question, how do you prohibit polygamy?” Burress said. “Or anything? You’ve gotta give them anything they want. When you start using words like ‘equal protection,’ or when you can say there’s discrimination, what are you going ( Read more... )

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Please to be stopping reports of a suspect in custody without confirming your information. Extra demerits for reporting that he is "dark-skinned".

Thank you.

Road-apple dumbasses.

I have a lot of love and respect for a whole number of homosexual friends, so there's no homophobic issues going on here at all with me. My question is what's the purpose of sex? ...I'll just speak to the bill. I'm gonna vote no on this bill, but it's just for this reason. I don't think that homosexual sex is necessarily not deviate. Deviate isn't ( Read more... )

The unnamed idiot who did this (WARNING: GRAPHIC PHOTOS):

A man in China's southeastern Guangdong province admitted himself to a local hospital after he reportedly got a live eel stuck inside him. According to British tabloid The Sun, the man inserted the 20-inch-long Asian swamp eel into his anus after seeing it done in a porn movie, and he had ( Read more... )

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My name is Mike Frey. I speak as a concerned Minnesotan father and husband. And the thing about same sex marriage is that, people who are married, do have sex. And when same-sex people are married, they do have sex, there’s something called sodomy. ( cut for the most profound ignorance and wanton stupidity I've ever seen on this issue )

Alabama state Rep. Mary Sue McClurkin, who is sponsoring a bill restricting abortion services because a baby is the largest organ in a woman's body.

“When a physician removes a child from a woman, that is the largest organ in a body,” McClurkin told the Montgomery Advertiser on Thursday. “That’s a big thing. That’s a big surgery. You don’t have ( Read more... )

Gayle Trotter of the "Independent Women's Forum" -- an organization with no members -- testified at the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing on gun violence that AR-15s (the battlefield weapon used in the Newtown, CT massacre) empower women, because women have no other means to defend themselves. Lawrence O'Donnell points out several lapses of ( Read more... )

And the Award for Internet Dumbassery by Conflating an Actor with His Role goes to Shakesville, for the following idiocy:

Image: Nerdfap dreamboy Benedict Cumberbatch as rapist Julian Assange. Neat! (By which I mean "barf!")

Favorite comment: I'm shocked that Roman Polanski isn't directing.

They probably think Robert Downey, Jr. flies, too. *

Two epsilon-grades with concealed carry permits walked down a street in Portland, OR with assault rifles to demonstrate their 2nd Amendment rights. They prompted multiple 911 calls and sent a school into lockdown in the process. And it's entirely legal.

But we don't have a gun problem in this country. Certainly not.

*retires to Hobbiton*