Marco Rubio makes a clown of himself: The twisted logic behind his anti-gay “hate speech” insanity

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Republican presidential contender and super thirsty guy Marco Rubio is worried that marriage equality is the first slippery step onto a very slippery slope toward labeling the Bible hate speech. Or something.

“If you think about it, we are at the water’s edge of the argument that mainstream Christian teaching is hate speech,” Rubio, who is Catholic, said Tuesday during an interview with the CBN News. “Because today we’ve reached the point in our society where if you do not support same-sex marriage you are labeled a homophobe and a hater.”

“So what’s the next step after that?” he continued. “After they are done going after individuals, the next step is to argue that the teachings of mainstream Christianity, the catechism of the Catholic Church is hate speech. And there’s a real and present danger.”

It’s hard to imagine that even Rubio believes what he’s saying here, but who knows. Massachusetts has been issuing marriage licenses to gay couples since 2004, and, last I checked, the state hasn’t moved to raze its Catholic churches or strip Boston College of its charter. Ditto for seriously every other state that has legalized equal marriage.

And while Indiana “fixed” its beefed up version of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, it is still completely legal to discriminate against LGBTQ people in the state. It is, in fact, legal to discriminate against LGBTQ people in most states.

http://www.salon.com/2015/05/27/marco_rubio_makes_a_clown_of_himself_the_twisted_logic_behind_his_anti_gay_hate_speech_insanity/



This is the clown I am supposed to be fearful he's going to poach young voters? Maybe the young voters who matriculated at Bob Jones University.

[spanone]

1. hey marco you are a homophobe and a hater

“Because today we’ve reached the point in our society where if you do not support same-sex marriage you are labeled a homophobe and a hater.”

[JoePhilly]

2. Ask him if he's putting the Church and the Pope before the Constitution.

His head will explode.

If he sounds like a Papist, the evangelical right will crucify him ... abandon the pope, he loses Catholics.

[Kelvin Mace]

3. oooo, don't use words like "matriculate"

It makes these type of people uncomfortable. Pretty much all of the verbs ending in "-ate" make them upset.

[Eleanors38]

6. Sounds like how George Smathers defeated Claude M. "Red" Pepper for U.S. Senate in Florida...

some 65 years ago. He said that Pepper's daughter had "matriculated" at the University of Florida, then became a "thespian."

[COLGATE4]

10. Sounds like the apocryphal story of the old-time

Southern politican railing to his base against the local State University: "My friends, do you know that they actually force boys and girls to matriculate together!!!???? Not only that, but they are also forced to use the same curriculum!!!!!".

[Coventina]

4. And yet, these clowns are afraid Sharia Law is around the corner?

[truebrit71]

7. The cognitive dissonance is amazing to behold, no?

They just don't see it..

[shenmue]

5. Bearing false witness

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

8. A self-made clown

At least he's done something with his life. Most Republicans don't even make good, funny clowns.

[COLGATE4]

9. "Rubio, who is Catholic"...

except when he's a Mormon, or a Fundamentalist Protestant or a Catholic (again). Watch this space for his next religious affiliation.

[Rex]

11. Really? Is he a man of convenience? Did not know he shopped around for his faith.

Interesting.

[COLGATE4]

12. Yeah, the whole family took turns converting from Catholicism

to Mormonism. Then Marco (at least) took a stab at Fundamental Protestantism. Now he's (again) Catholic, at least to his Latin American supporters. He hasn't met a religion he didn't like, except of course Islam.

[Rex]

13. Wow, thanks for the info...I have to pass that along to some fundie relatives

that spam RWing crap to the family. That should make their heads explode.

[workinclasszero]

14. Rubio is a hater

Typical republican "Christian" that does everything opposite of what Jesus said to do.

Republican mammon worshipers have just about destroyed the american church and turned it into a weapon to oppress the poor, old, sick, and immigrants.

Ayn Rand is proud and Jesus weeps.