Say what you will about the efforts by Indiana and Arkansas to protect religious business owners from teh ghey—after all, President Obama hasn't outlawed free speech (yet)—but please keep one thing in mind: At least they don't want to hang the sinners.
Ever since America was founded (as a Christian nation), all of its citizens—yes, this includes Ted Cruz—have been guaranteed the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
What nobody (gay, straight, or otherwise) is guaranteed the right to is a slice of Memories Pizza—which is just as well, given their recent closure (and subsequent windfall).
Clearly, if the Founding Fathers had viewed such a right as "unalienable," then they would've enshrined it in the Constitution—but they didn't do that,
did they?
Deal with it.
Morning lineup:
Meet the Press: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT); Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R); Archbishop of New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan; Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred.
Face the Nation: Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz; Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC); Former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA); Sarah Warbelow (Human Rights Campaign); Roundtable: David Sanger (New York Times), Ruth Marcus (Washington Post), Jeffrey Goldberg (The Atlantic), David Ignatius (Washington Post) and Margaret Brennan (CBS News).
This Week: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; California Gov. Jerry Brown (D); Archbishop of Philadelphia Charles Chaput; Major League Baseball Commissioner Emeritus Bud Selig; Keith Olbermann (ESPN); Roundtable: Democratic Strategist Donna Brazile, Republican Strategist Matthew Dowd, Julie Pace (Associated Press) and Jonathan Karl (ABC News).
Fox News Sunday: Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN); Archbishop of Washington Cardinal Donald Wuerll; Roundtable: George Will (Washington Post), Mara Liasson (NPR), Jason Riley (Wall Street Journal) and Juan Williams (Fox News).
State of the Union: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA); Others TBD.
Evening lineup:
60 Minutes will feature: an interview with Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson (preview); an interview with Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams (preview); and, a report on "Wikipedians"—the people who edit Wikipedia full-time (preview).
On Comedy Central...
Jon Stewart and Larry Wilmore were off this week, so there are no new videos to share. Instead, here's Jon's old faith/off between Easter and Passover (04/09/12).
The Daily Show:
Monday: Author/Activist Gene Baur; Tuesday: Actor Peter Dinklage; Wednesday:Tavis Smiley (PBS); Thursday: Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA).
And Larry acting out some of the racist emails from Fergsuon (03/05/15)
The Nightly Show:
Guests TBD.
Elsewhere...
Michele Bachmann posted some crazy shit on Facebook, as she's wont to do.
Former Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann likened President Obama to the pilot who downed the Germanwings airline in the French Alps, writing in a hateful Facebook rant that the commander-in-chief's negotiations with Iran were like "a deranged pilot flying his entire nation into the rocks."
"With his Iran deal, Barack Obama is for the 300 million souls of the United States what Andreas Lubitz was for the 150 souls on the German Wings flight," Bachmann wrote this week on the social media network. "A deranged pilot flying his entire nation into the rocks."
"After the fact, among the smoldering remains of American cities, the shocked survivors will ask, why did he do it," she added.
Meanwhile...
Racist nutjob Ted Nugent blamed President Obama for military suicides.
"Here's your job, Republican Party," Nugent said over the weekend in comments posted online by Right Wing Watch. "Twenty to 25 of those guys kill themselves every day, and they haven’t told you why and they haven't told anybody else why but they told me why: because the commander-in-chief is the enemy."
Nugent was speaking at the Republican Party of Maricopa County, Arizona's Lincoln Day Dinner, where he had been introduced by controversial sheriff Joe Arpaio, the website reported.
And, in tangentially-related news...
Former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu blamed Obama for the persistence of birtherism.
President Obama is "inciting" the passions of so-called birthers, who believe he was born in Kenya not the United States, by planning a trip to the African country, former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu (R) said Monday.
"I think his trip back to Kenya is going to create a lot of chatter and commentary amongst some of the hard right who still don’t see him as having been born in the U.S.," he said during an appearance on Fox News' "America's Newsroom."
"I personally think he's just inciting some chatter on an issue that should have been a dead issue a long time ago."
#ThanksObama
- Trix