The batshitery and spittle flying from the Christofascists in the wake of (i) yesterday's Supreme Court oral arguments which suggest that the Defense of Marriage Act is likely to be struck down and (ii) statements by a minority of Republicans indicating a possible shift on gay marriage is unbelievable. And the Christofascists are not only attacking gays but also Republicans who are signalling that they may stop prostituting themselves to the Christofascists and hate spewing "family values" organizations. Among those vociferously attacking members of the GOP is Matt Staver, dean of Liberty University Law School, an embarrassment to and blight on the Commonwealth of Virginia. As Right Wing Watch reports, Crosstalk, a Christianist radio outlet. Here are highlights on Staver's venom and whining:
Liberty Counsel Chairman Mat Staver yesterday spoke to Vic Eliason of Voice of Christian Youth America on Crosstalk, where the two agreed that legalizing same-sex marriage nationally “would be the same as pronouncing the death sentence on America.”
Staver, who is also the dean of the Liberty University School of Law, even went so far as to say that marriage equality would “obliterate” morality, marriage and “the idea that there even is a God,” along with harming children, parents and society at large.
He later cited California’s law barring the use of ex-gay therapy on minors as an example of how gay rights represent “a direct assault on the very core of our liberties and morality, marriage and even God.”
Staver described Rob Portman, Karl Rove and Reince Priebus as “cockroaches” which “start running” once “you flip on the lights” over their comments on gay marriage, and Eliason said of the Log Cabin Republicans: “Is there nobody to clean the cockroaches out?”
After discussing George W. Bush’s failure to pass the Federal Marriage Amendment, Staver joined other Religious Right leaders like Mike Huckabee, Tony Perkins and Gary Bauer in warning about the emergence of a “third party” and a “mass exodus” from the GOP “if the Republican Party were to adopt same-sex marriage.”
STAVER: . . . So now you have Karl Rove and you have [Reince] Priebus and some others, [Rob] Portman, they’re going down a way that ultimately will split the Republican Party. I can tell you what, if the Republican Party were to adopt same-sex marriage, if they were to do that, evangelicals will leave en masse and that will create a third party. No one wants to create a third party, they want to work within the system, they want to make sure that it advances freedom and liberty and the sanctity of life and marriage, but if the Republican Party goes down that road you can bet that there will be a mass exodus from that party and it will not win elections again for many, many years in the future.
Message to Staver: where are the evangelicals going to go? Does he seriously believe that a third party pandering to the evangelical vote would have a snowball's chance in Hell of winning elections? These people truly are living in a fantasy world.
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