Did Someone Put Something In Colorado’s Drinking Water?
The crazy is pouring out of Colorado. CPAC might consider holding their next conference in the Centennial State.
SEN. DAVE SCHULTHEIS, R-Colorado Springs, on Wednesday voted againt Senate Bill 179, which requires pregnant women to undergo HIV testing to ensure steps can be taken to reduce transferring the disease to the baby if the mother is infected.
* What he said during the debate: “This stems from sexual promiscuity for the most part and I just can’t go there. We do things continually to remove the consequences of poor behavior, unacceptable behavior, quite frankly. I’m not convinced that part of the role of government should be to protect individuals from the negative consequences of their actions.”
* What he said afterward: “What I’m hoping is that yes, that person may have AIDS, have it seriously as a baby and when they grow up, but the mother will begin to feel guilt as a result of that. The family will see the negative consequences of that promiscuity and it may make a number of people over the coming years … begin to realize that there are negative consequences and maybe they should adjust their behavior. We can’t keep people from being raped. We can’t keep people from shooting each other. We can’t keep people from jumping off bridges. People drink and drive, and they crash and kill people. Poor behavior has its consequences.”
Looks like the Republican Party has found its Hope message. “What I’m hoping is that yes, that person may have AIDS, have it seriously as a baby and when they grow up, but the mother will begin to feel guilt as a result of that.” Add this bit of genius to Rush Limbaugh’s hope that Obama fails.
More Colorado insanity after the jump.
Not to be outdone by Schultheis fire and brimstone performance, another bible thumping crazy weighs in:
SEN. SCOTT RENFROE, R-Greeley, on Monday opposed Senate Bill 88, which extends health care benefits to the partners of gay and lesbian state employees.
* What he said during the debate: “Leviticus 18:22 says, ‘You shall not lie with a man as one lies with a female. It is an abomination.’ Leviticus 20:13 says, ‘If there is a man who lies with a male as though to lie with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act, and they shall surely be put to death. … ‘ We are taking sins and making them to be legally OK, and that is wrong. … And I’m not saying that this is the only sin that’s out there. Obviously, we have sin, we have murder, we have all sorts of sin. We have adultery … and we would never think to make murder legal.”
* What he said Wednesday: “I don’t mean to be hateful. I don’t think I’m hateful. People have accused me of that. I’m just voicing my opinions on what I believe and trying to speak what I think is the truth. Our First Amendment allows freedom of speech and I should be allowed to say what I want on any issue. I wasn’t probably eloquent enough in saying that all people sin and there are many different sins and they are all the same in the eyes of God. But to make laws to make sins legal is where I think it crosses the line, and we shouldn’t go there. That’s the destruction of our society.”
And where does the Republican Leadership (I know, it’s an oxymoron.) stand on these statements?
Senate Minority Leader Josh Penry responded he is not going to muzzle his caucus, although he has reminded his colleagues “we should never lose sight of the humanity of people on the other side of an issue.”
“People are entitled to their opinions,” the Grand Junction Republican said. “It’s not my job to go around and censor people and tell them what to say.”
I’m really becoming angry over statements like those above. First, there’s simply not enough hours in a day to blog on all the hate and nonsense Republicans are spewing these days. And second, I’m starting to feel nostalgic for the days the men in little white coats whisked these nut cases away. But, what really infuriates me, is the silence emitting from people in the Republican Party who know better. And for all their talk about new ideas and rebuilding, the truth is they got nothing.
Not only has the GOP cornered the market on irrelevance and a complete lack of credibility, they’re now aiming for total self-destruction… and they’re succeeding.
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Well, they are the party of hope!
I prefer it when they make it clear to everyone what their real agenda is, instead of masking it in Orwellian language. Most of us (especially the women) know that a lot of Republican rhetoric tries to mask their idea that pregnancy and diseases are punishment for having sex.
I’m really becoming angry over statements like those above.
Add me to your list. Besides the debacle of the last eight years that shed what I believed to be real Republicans (remember, I’m a TRoosevelt-type), this social agenda crap is just that – crap.
And it’s obvious that this crap is all they have. Good thing the country doesn’t have any serious problems for them to focus on!
And the Rocky Mountain News…dead after 150 years.
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/
What happened to the Republican drive to protect the unborn? The disconnect in this is astounding.
“we should never lose sight of the humanity of people on the other side of an issue.”
I could buy this if they didn’t insist on defending stuff that never acknowledges the humanity of the folks that they are busily demonizing.
As these neanderthals of the conservative ilk gradually approach extinction they have an opportunity to become a useful part of the world’s future. I suggest they find a nearby “tar pit”, throw themselves in it and in a million or so years these “dinosaurs” may be exhumed as a quart of oil or something, prolonging their ambitions of sef-importance and disregard for society.
My apologies to “neanderthals” and “dinosaurs”
The GOP Handbook
Start a useless war – No consequences
Rip Up the Constitution – No consequences
Wreck the world’s economy – No consequences
Fuck someone – consequences
No, John, then that would produce “sour” crude (vs. sweet) which is useless for our needs and would ultimately yield more pollution from less use.
Now, you see that? It goes to say that these types are bad for our health as they will ultimately lead to more dense pollution via their inefficient utilization of being.
Is someone namestealing Kowalko? That is a rather violent sentiment above. Be better than that.
I hope you’re trying to be funny, because what John said was incredibly benign. Plus, that was nowhere, NOwhere close to the stuff we’ve objected to in the past (like shooting republicans – sorry DD, but I’m illustrating).
Plus, what John said about those particular social-agenda conservatives would probably do more to harm the tar pits and cause an ecological issue than it would to condone violence.
So there!
You know, on second thought, John. I do think you were rather insensitive to the tar pits.
Besides, in a million years we won’t have any need for the geologic product of tar pits. They’ll ALWAYS be there then…..
Don’t forget all of the petroleum products we use that so many take for granted the origin of such product.
Sweet and sour crude (not to be confused with Sweet and Sour Chicken!!!) can be refined into so many directions, from the ever-common gas to plastics, to things that you probably never even imagined! While we will (hopefully) kiss-off gasoline as we know it, I can’t imagine a total kiss-off of crude.
More on point, I still stick with my revelation that this was insensitive to tar pits! Won’t somebody think of the tar pits??? 😯
Plus putting them in the tar pits would be really unfair to the fossils already in there.
Serious point.
These religious, Catholic *shithooks* have nothing better to do with their lives than to make other people’s lives MISERABLE.
I’m now living in New Mexico, and it’s the same song and dance here. A bill to provide protection to same-sex couples in this state just got defeated (“Senate Bill 12” over here, see http://www.abqjournal.com/news/state/271041393214newsstate02-27-09.htm), in large part to the efforts of “the Church”.
I have a lot of friends who are gay and and a lot of friends who are lesbian. Bigotry like this enrages me, and this is why I perceive the people on the right side of the aisle (“republicans”) to be, in large part, poisonous, and depraved.
Next time when the republican’s talk about protecting children, they should be more specific WHICH children they are talking about.