Congressman Randy Forbes Demonstrates He's Unfit for Office Yet Again

One would think that having attended Thomas Jefferson's University of Virginia (we were classmates) and no doubt having visited Monticello and Jefferson's grave site a number of times Randy Forbes would have learned at least a tiny bit about the concept of religious freedom and the principle that under the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom - not to mention the United States Constitution - no one religious group gets impose its religious belief system on all other citizens. Sadly, such seems to not be the case as Forbes panders and prostitutes himself to the most hate-filled elements of religion in Virginia and the nation. Indeed, Forbes has his nose so far up the ass of The Family Foundation and hated groups like Family Research Council it's nothing short of a miracle that he hasn't suffocated. Forbes' latest shameless pandering to the Christianists involves a tirade against the new U. S. passport application forms that allow for same sex couples with children to apply for passports for their children. Wake up call to Randy: we DO exist and we're not going away, so GET OVER IT and stop acting more shamelessly than a nasty whore. If you want to cavort with the knuckle draggers, that's your option, but stop violating your oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution - including the guarantee of freedom of religion for all, not just Bible beating Neanderthals. Here's highlights from the Virginian Pilot on Forbes' latest pandering to religious extremists:
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U.S. Rep. Randy Forbes is accusing the State Department of conducting an assault on "traditional American family relationships" by changing how citizens can refer to their parentage on passport applications.
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Forbes is upset that passport forms that now require applicants to provide information about their mother and father will change so that applicants are asked to list two people as "mother/father/parent."
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This week he filed a bill, HR635, that would require the forms retain only the "father" and "mother" categories. The Chesapeake Republican said it will only be a matter of time before the mother and father designation are set aside entirely.
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His bill would "require all federal agencies, contractors, and government-sponsored enterprises to use the words 'mother' and 'father' when describing parents in all official documents and forms," according to a statement by his office.
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James Parrish, executive director of Equality Virginia, a gay rights advocacy group, said he was happy to hear about the passport changes and strongly disagrees with Forbes. "This passport change is doing nothing more than recognize the families that already exist in this nation," he said.