Conservative GOP Congressman + his earmark for gay porn flick = interesting times in VA
Wednesday October 15, 2008
Categories: Christians, Election '08, Evangelicals, Homosexuality, Media, Religion in the Public Square
OK, I'm not making this up. But it just came out that Rep. Virgil Goode, notorious for leading the protest against Rep. Ellison's desire to be sworn in on the Koran and for being an outspoken opponent of gay rights,...
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bye bye virgil goode, he deserves it.
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Anyone who will write in earmarks for porn gets my vote.
...not that there's anything wrong with that. Seriously though, demagoguing is bad enough without the hypocrisy on top. Awful and terrible.
Maybe Rep. Goode can be a guest lecturer at the Larry Craig School of Government....
Isn't this the blog that week after week after week has been full of hand wringing about negative campaigning, cheap shots, gutter politics. Hasn't the message of this blog been - oh the Republicans are negative nasty unchristian scum and the Democrats are a Matthew 25 loving incarnation of Jesus.
Well the mask has slipped (again). This blog, like the Obama campaign (the campaign that has spent more money on negative ads than any other campaign in world history), is nothing short of hyocritical nonsense. This blog is unloving and nasty. You accused sarah Palin of damaging her soul - well all the writers on this blog should look at the speck in their own eye.
I respectfully disagree with frank's frank critique. The issue here is the hypocrisy of the entire situation. Rep. Goode is one of the most reactionary and bigotted members of Congress. He blames pretty much every problem we have (even the Wall St meltdown!) on either gays or immigrants.
He said that if he could ask one question of Obama, it would be about gay marraige. And his first TV ad was attacking his opponent for not being a strong enough opponent of gay marriage....and then it comes out that he is involved in this film and earmarked tax-payer dollars to support its creation.
It is completely appropriate to call him out on his hypocrisy and misuse of taxpayer dollars to help out his friends and cronies. I think it would have been different, and I would not have written on it, if Goode hadn't earmarked the funds and began his TV campaign by attacking his opponent on this issue. GOP strategists will not stop their campaigns of fear and division unless they realize they are backfiring politically and that they will be held to the same standards.
I am sorry you misunderstood what I was saying. call him out by all means, but don't go around claiming to be purity itself, calling McCain negative, calling McCain this that and the other. You lack credibility when you do what you criticise others for doing. This site is the most hypocritical bile on the web - and thats saying something
Thats the problem with the liberal elite - they are right all else are wrong - do they not see this makes them bigots? of course not. This blog is just plain bigoted bile written by a bunch of hypocrites
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