Or, so that's what Paul Weyrich the asshole leader of the Free Congress Foundation had to say on NPR today.
Folks, the culture wars are here, and we need to win this war against the radical rightwing, religious extremists. They are taking over our country.
I've included the extended quote on the flip.
Michele Norris, had the terrible duty of interviewing Paul Weyrich today on NPR. I pitty the poor woman.
Here's a snippet of the text.
Weyrich
"It has been known for many years that congressman Foley was a homosexual. Homosexuals tend to be preoccupied with sex. The idea that he should be continued ... or should have been continued as chairman of the committee on missing and exploited children given their knowledge of that is just outrageous."
Norris
"Now before we go, I think I can say that there are quite a few people who would take exception to the statement that homosexuals are preoccupied with sex."
Weyrich
"Well, I don't care if they take exception of it. It happens to be true."
Norris
"That is your opinion."
Weyrich
"It's not my opinion. It's the opinion of many psychologists and psychiatrists that have to deal with them."
I'm sitting there in my car, driving along, and I think of my gay pals who went all through college and many well on into their 30's before coming out.
I'm driving along thinking that I can't imagine the pain these friends of mine have to endure every day of their life as they get inundated with this hate-filled rhetoric.
I'm driving along thinking about the thousands of strip clubs we have dotting the American countryside that are packed with men every night oggling and drooling over naked women ... and wondering how the FUCK anyone could say that my gay friends are more or less obsessed with sex than my straight friends.
I'm driving along thinking ... THEY are gonna do it ... aren't they? THEY are actually going to make this a gay/liberal problem, aren't THEY?
THEY are evil, folks.
But THEY are amazing marketers. THEY talk in short sound bites and carefully packaged words ... traditional family values, limited government, hunters for Pawlenty, Democrats are weak on terrorism ... and THEY keep at it until THEY find two or three word phrases to which people cling.
And, THEY spread their evil ways.
And, WE must stop them. Because my gay friends all have one, singular life to live, and these friends of mine don't deserve the persecution. The, poverty-stricken, single mom doesn't deserve it. Her kids don't deserve it. My innocent uncle who was murdered with a handgun doesn't deserve it. The thousands of innocents in Iraq don't deserve it.
What have each of you done today to stand up against THEM?
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