OMG!!! The heads must have been exploding amongst the professional Christian and professional gay hating crowd today. The blow back will be amazing to watch. What am I talking about? On Meet the Press Republican National Committee Reince Priebus said that gays are entitled to equal rights in regard to, say, discrimination in the workplace. True, poll after poll has shown that significant majorities of Americans support employment non-discrimination protections for LGBT citizens. Hell, even when I was on a call in television program in Martinsville, Virgina (about as far as one can get from the center of the gay friendly universe) back when I represented Michael Ware Moore in his lawsuit against the Virginia Museum of Natural History ("VMNH"), every caller supported Moore and thought that VMNH should pay damages to Moore for firing him because he was Gay. As Pam Spaulding notes, Bryan Fischer and Tony Perkins must be having apoplexy. Here's a part of the dialogue:
DAVID GREGORY: But do you believe that gays and lesbians in America deserve equal rights?
REINCE PRIEBUS: I think they deserve equal rights in regard to, say, discrimination in the workplace, issues such as, as Mitt Romney has pointed out numerous times, hospital visitations. I mean I think that for the sake of dignity and respect, sure. But if you’re defining marriage as a civil right, then no. I don’t believe that people who are same sex should be able to married under our laws.
On the issue of gay marriage, ,Priebus proved as much of a knuckle dragging Neanderthal and prostitute to the Christianist crowd as is to be expected from the GOP which is now, in my view, a de facto religious party. Here's a clip from Meet the Press:
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