Republican went to son's same-sex wedding days after voting against equal marriage rights

[groundloop]

Source: The Guardian

Representative Glenn Thompson, a Pennsylvania Republican, attended his son’s same-sex wedding days after the lawmaker voted against a bill that would codify the right to have a same-sex marriage into federal law.

Thompson was one of 157 Republicans who voted against the Respect for Marriage Act, which passed the US House last week. On Friday, he attended his son’s wedding.

“Congressman and Mrs Thompson were thrilled to attend and celebrate their son’s marriage on Friday night as he began this new chapter in his life,” a spokesperson for the lawmaker, Maddison Stone, said in a statement Monday. “The Thompsons are very happy to welcome their new son-in-law into their family.”

Democrats are pushing the measure amid concern that the US supreme court could take away the right to same-sex and interracial marriage in the wake of its decision to overturn the nationwide right to access an abortion. Those concerns were prompted by supreme court justice Clarence Thomas, who used a concurring opinion in the abortion case to suggest that the court use the same rationale to revisit its 2015 decision protecting same-sex marriage.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/26/glenn-thompson-republican-son-gay-marriage-vote-bill

[Rebl2]

1. I have

no words

[AllaN01Bear]

2. its ok for their gays . but , not those other gays . hem . o the irony.

[3catwoman3]

3. I want to hear this hypocrite explain this.

I won't hold my breath.

[Coventina]

4. It's hypocrisy like this that makes me so crazy angry.

"Abortions are evil except MY abortion!"


"I can critique others looks but MINE are off the table!"


"I can hate the LGBT community, even when I or a loved one is LGBT"


etc. ad nauseum....

[Warpy]

5. These raging assholes think it will never apply to them or their families

so they play to the Evangelical crowd every single time. They are blissfully unaware that the Evangelical crowd is getting smaller just for that reason, the younger generations finally realizing that this shit might be OK in church, but it doesn't belong in civil law.

[livetohike]

6. This is my Rep. Right Wing Nut, Election Denying jagoff.

He will have a seat for life as Republican registrations outnumber Democrats 3:1 in this CD. Typical hypocrite.

[Texin]

7. The blatant hypocrisy of these cretin GQP legislators is staggering.

Marriage and abortion for me but not for Thee.

[Random Boomer]

8. I expected better from his son

This vicious hypocrite was welcomed at his gay son's wedding. Why?

If Thompson's own family won't hold him accountable for the hypocrisy and cruelty of his actions, why would he care what anyone else thinks?

[maxsolomon]

9. See: Dick Cheney, DOMA, Lesbian daughter.

2004. 18 years ago.

Par for the GQP course.

[iluvtennis]

10. Wow, How do you spell Coward and Hypocrite?