Homophobe Bob Marshall Bashes Maryland Governor Even Though a Majority of Maryland Catholics Support Gay Marriage

Virginia Delegate Bob Marshall (dubbed douche of the week by Queerty) never misses an opportunity to denigrate or marginalize LGBT citizens who do not subscribe to his legalistic - and likely self-loathing inducing - religious bigotry. It seems nothing makes Marshall more near orgasmic that maligning LGBT citizens which, of course, suggests that Marshall has sexual identity issues of his own. Marshall targets gays even when they in question live outside the borders of Virginia. Marshall's latest anti-gay offense takes the form of an op-ed in the Baltimore Sun attacking Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley for not knuckling under to the hate and homophobia promulgated by Archbishop Edwin O’Brien. The irony, of course, is that O'Malley better represents the views of Maryland Catholics than does the priggish O'Brien who disseminates anti-gay blather as dictated by the Vatican. First these highlights form Queerty:

Each week, Queerty picks one blowhard, hypocrite, airhead, sanctimonious prick or other enemy of all that is queer to be the Douche of the Week. . . . . This week’s douche is Bob Marshall. Who, you ask? He’s the author of an op-ed published in the Baltimore Sun on Monday. We contemplated calling out the Sun for even publishing it, but First Amendment rights and all. Instead we’ll just go right for the jugular and tell Mr. Bob Marshall what a straight-up vinegar-and-water douche he is.

In his piece, Marshall—a member of the Virginia House of Delegates and self-proclaimed “Catholic legislator”— takes issue with Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley, who wrote a letter to the Baltimore Archbishop Edwin O’Brien suggesting O’Brien not get involved in the state’s gay-marriage debate. (The missive was a response to a letter O’Brien had originally written O’Malley.) In his letter, O’Malley, a Catholic, basically tells O’Brien to keep his big sacrament-giving yap shut about civil marriages:

He’s [Marshall.s] apparently never heard of the term “separation of Church and State,” because he suggests “Governor O’Malley think twice before he checks his faith at the door of the governor’s mansion.” Good one, Marshall. Good one. The latest DOTW continues to blab about how unnatural homosexuals are, writing: Sexual orientation is not limited to same- or complementary-sex attractions but includes attractions to children, prostitutes, multiple wives (polygamy) dead persons (necrophilia), animals, inanimate objects, and others that could not be printed in the Baltimore Sun out of deference to readers.

Marshall’s opinion piece is a poorly parsed pack of lies with no place in the Baltimore Sun or any reputable new outlet and we’re calling him out. All together now: “What a douche!”

Some might say Queerty's a bit harsh on Marshall. But as a Virginian who has followed Marshall's unending anti-gay jihad, I'd say the article isn't harsh enough. Marshall needs some serious mental health intervention - and a hot night with a gay escort to get his transferred hatred out of his system.

What's truly ironic is that a majority of Maryland Catholics agree wit Governor O'Malley, not the archbishop. Here's what Catholics for Equality has to say about the issue of gay marriage in Maryland:

Maryland Catholics for Equality, a state-wide political group of Catholics in Maryland who support civil equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender citizens is weighing in on the recent exchange between Governor Martin O'Malley and Archbishop Edwin O'Brien over the Governor's support for our state's marriage equality bill. The group applauds Gov. O'Malley for his support for equal rights for all Maryland citizens and believes Archbishop O'Brien's political criticism is both inappropriate and a bad use of his time, while churches and schools are closing due to lack of funding. The group also states that Archbishop O'Brien is also out of step with the majority of Catholics in Maryland who support civil marriage for loving and committed same-gender couples.

"A Grove Insight poll conducted in February 2011, showed that 55% of Catholics in Maryland support civil marriage. This is several points higher than the state at large, so the idea that our Archbishop has the backing of Catholics in the pews is ridiculous." . . . . We're proud to have a Catholic governor who understands that as a public official, he serves the people of Maryland, not the will of any one religious institution, especially his own," stated Calhoun, "Governor O'Malley is standing on the shoulders of great American Catholic leaders like President John F. Kennedy, who proved to the country that you could trust Catholics in elected office not to be controlled by Rome."

The national Catholics for Equality group went on to criticize Archbishop O'Brien for not recognizing the important difference between civil marriage, the kind you get from the justice of the peace, and religious marriage, which all religious groups is free to decide for themselves, weather they wish to perform.

Rome and the Church hierarchy can try to control the laity, but rank and file Catholics increasingly recognize the hierarchy's moral bankruptcy and decide issues based on their conscience as opposed to acting as unthinking puppets of Rome. As I've noted before, I wish more would vote with their feet and leave the Church. Falling membership and declining collection plate revenues are all that really get through to the senile old men in dresses at the Vatican