One of the draw backs of living in the Hampton Roads area is the frequent exposure to the lunacy eruptions of local religious extremist/nut case, Pat Robertson. With each passing year, Robertson gets crazier and crazier, yet members of the GOP continue to prostitute themselves to Robertson and his coven of extremists at Christian Broadcasting Network ("CBN") and similar "Christian" broadcasting outlets. Speaker of the House John Boehner apparently felt compelled to kiss Robertson's ring and those of other Christianist snake oil merchants at a recent gathering of the National Religious Broadcasters Association. Boehner also made an obligatory rant about the Obama Department of Justice's decision not to defend Sec. 3 of DOMA in federal court. As noted in a prior post, one can only hope that Boehner and his fellow GOP Christo-fascists rush into court and find themselves cut to shreds when they must provide serious evidence and legal arguments to support their religious based hatred toward gays. Here's some of CBN's coverage of Boehner's pandering:*
Speaker John Boehner: “I’m really disappointed in the President and the Department of Justice in the fact that they’re not going to defend a law that Congress passed overwhelmingly. It’s their responsibility to do that. Now, it’s happened before where administrations have decided they weren’t going to go out and vigorously defend a law that Congress passed but I really am disappointed in the President in his actions but if the President won’t lead, if the President won’t defend DOMA then you’ll see the House of Representatives defend our actions in passing a bill that frankly passed overwhelmingly.”
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Speaker John Boehner: “I’d be very surprised if the House didn’t decide that they were going to defend law.”
Speaker John Boehner: “It strikes me as something that’s just as raw politics as anything I’ve seen knowing that a lot of people who believe in DOMA are probably not likely to vote for him and pandering to the other side on this issue.”
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