First a little good news: New Hampshire's wildly popular governor, John Lynch, announced that he's going to sign the bill allowing for civil unions for gay couples in his state. "I believe it is a matter of conscience, fairness and preventing discrimination. "I believe it is a matter of conscience, fairness and preventing discrimination." Although Massachusetts already has gay marriage, New Hampshire will join Connecticut, Vermont and New Jersey as states establishing civil unions. These were also states early to oppose and abolish slavery.
More good news: 66 House members-- all Democrats, of course, have perfect (100%) records on standing for gay equality. Among those 66 are not just openly gay members like Barney Frank (MA) and Tammy Baldwin (WI), but most of the Democratic leaders as well, like Nancy Pelosi (CA), George Miller (CA), Rahm Emanuel (IL), and Charlie Rangel (NY).
And now the bad news: All but 3 Republicans-- Libertarian Ron Paul (TX), Jim Sensenbrenner (WI) and ex-Democrat Rodney Alexander (LA), each with a 25% score-- also have perfect scores: 0%. That means that all but 3 of the Republican congressmembers-- including the half dozen known gay Republican closet queens-- voted against gay equality every single time it came up. That is staggering. I wonder how the Log Cabin loons can look at themselves in the mirror.
And now the worse news: fourteen reactionary Democrats have voted with the Republicans on every roll call seeking to legislate discrimination or block equality in regard to gay men and women. These are the homophobic and disgraceful Democrats with zero scores:
* John Barrow (GA)
* Melissa Bean (IL)
* Dan Boren (OK)
* G.K. Butterfield (NC)
* Russ Carnahan (MO)
* Emanuel Cleaver (MO)
* Jim Costa (CA)
* Henry Cuellar (TX)
* Stephanie Herseth (SD)
* Brian Higgins (NY)
* Daniel Lipinski (IL)
* John Salazar (CO)
* Allyson Schwartz (PA)
* John Tanner (TN)
Are you gay? Or do you have gay family members or friends? Think about those names-- all but 3 Republicans and those 14 homophobic Democrats-- next time the any of the Inside the Beltway PACs asks you for a donation... and next time you go to the polls.
Interesting. Howie could you point us to to the research and link? I am curious about some others like Bachmann who has a gay sister in law but has not handled this well in "the family" or I guess she takes family votes without that member of the family. Thanks
ReplyDeleteKeep singing that song, Howie! I no longer donate to any DC-based Democratic groups for three reasons. Those reasons are named Stephanie Herseth, Melissa Bean, and Ken Salazar. I see that John Salazar is as lousy a dem as his big brother. The Beltway dems had better learn that political donations are not gifts, they are investments, and decent returns on those investments are required. Until they demonstrate an understanding of this simple fact, I'm not trusting them with a cent.
ReplyDeleteA Schwartz my very own c criiter
ReplyDeleteI volunteered for her in 04 and held a fund raiser for her in my yard.
That was before she voted for the bankruptcy bill and the patriot act.
BUT THIS????
Howie people here are really sorry that Joe Hoeffel give up his seat to run against our NRA poster child Spector..
Lee
Hi, Mr. DownWithTyranny, I don't know where you get your facts, but you are absoluely wrong about the zero scores you gives most of those House Democrats.
ReplyDelete* John Barrow (GA)
* Melissa Bean (IL)
* Dan Boren (OK)
* G.K. Butterfield (NC)
* Russ Carnahan (MO)
* Emanuel Cleaver (MO)
* Jim Costa (CA)
* Henry Cuellar (TX)
* Stephanie Herseth (SD)
* Brian Higgins (NY)
* Daniel Lipinski (IL)
* John Salazar (CO)
* Allyson Schwartz (PA)
* John Tanner (TN)
Hate Crimes Act (House)
The 192 Dems who voted for the bill that included transgender people as well as gays last time (September 14th, 2005) --
Abercrombie
Ackerman
Allen
Andrews
Baca
Baird
Baldwin
Barrow
Bean
Becerra
Berkley
Berman
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (NY)
Blumenauer
Boswell
Boucher
Boyd
Brady (PA)
Brown (OH)
Brown, Corrine
Butterfield
Capps
Capuano
Cardin
Cardoza
Carnahan
Carson
Case
Chandler
Clay
Cleaver
Conyers
Cooper
Costa
Costello
Cramer
Crowley
Cuellar
Cummings
Davis (AL)
Davis (CA)
Davis (FL)
Davis (IL)
DeFazio
DeGette
Delahunt
DeLauro
Dicks
Dingell
Doggett
Doyle
Edwards
Emanuel
Engel
Eshoo
Etheridge
Evans
Farr
Fattah
Filner
Ford
Frank (MA)
Gonzalez
Gordon
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Grijalva
Gutierrez
Hastings (FL)
Herseth
Higgins
Hinchey
Hinojosa
Holden
Holt
Honda
Hooley
Hoyer
Inslee
Israel
Jackson (IL)
Jackson-Lee (TX)
Jefferson
Johnson, E. B.
Jones (OH)
Kanjorski
Kaptur
Kennedy (RI)
Kildee
Kilpatrick (MI)
Kind
Kucinich
Langevin
Lantos
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Lee
Levin
Lewis (GA)
Lipinski
Lofgren, Zoe
Lowey
Lynch
Maloney
Markey
Marshall
Matheson
Matsui
McCarthy
McCollum (MN)
McDermott
McGovern
McIntyre
McKinney
McNulty
Meehan
Meek (FL)
Meeks (NY)
Menendez
Michaud
Millender-McDonald
Miller (NC)
Miller, George
Mollohan
Moore (KS)
Moore (WI)
Moran (VA)
Murtha
Nadler
Napolitano
Neal (MA)
Oberstar
Obey
Olver
Ortiz
Owens
Pallone
Pascrell
Pastor
Pelosi
Peterson (MN)
Pomeroy
Price (NC)
Rahall
Rangel
Reyes
Ross
Rothman
Roybal-Allard
Ruppersberger
Rush
Ryan (OH)
Sabo
Salazar
Sánchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sanders
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schwartz (PA)
Scott (GA)
Scott (VA)
Serrano
Sherman
Skelton
Slaughter
Smith (WA)
Snyder
Solis
Spratt
Stark
Strickland
Stupak
Tauscher
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Tierney
Towns
Udall (CO)
Udall (NM)
Van Hollen
Velázquez
Visclosky
Wasserman Schultz
Waters
Watson
Watt
Waxman
Wexler
Woolsey
Wu
Wynn
The only ones out of those that *should* be on this list are Dan Boren and John Tanner, as well as Gene Taylor, who you completely left out, for some reason...
The problem with counting votes is that when Democrats know a bill will fail, they'll vote for it so they can campaign on it.
ReplyDeleteDemocrats controlled all three branches of the government for 2 years (1992-1994) and yet all they accomplished was telling gays not to say they were gay. Wow.
Many of them joined the great "gay" President Bill Clinton in establishing a national law banning gay marriage.
Even George Bush couldn't muster a national law like that.
Good job Democrats!
Gene Taylor is pretty much the most reactionary of all Democratic members of the House and he is no friend of gays and lesbians. His record on gay rights is pretty terrible but it isn't a zero. In 2004 he voted against some Republican effort to cut off debate on a bill that would have furthered discrimination against gay people.
ReplyDeleteFirstly, gay is immoral and just plain, well, just plain GAY (wrong)
ReplyDeleteSecondly, passing legislation against sexual orientation (this term has NO LEGAL DEFINITION) you would be defining yourselves among the following!
Coprophilia - sexual arousal associated with feces
Exhibitionism - the act of exposing one’s genitals to an unwilling observer to obtain sexual gratification
Fetishism/Sexual Fetishism - obtaining sexual excitement primarily or exclusively from an inanimate object or a particular part of the body
Frotteurism - approaching an unknown woman from the rear and pressing or rubbing the penis against her buttocks
Gay/Homosexual - people who form sexual relationships primarily or exclusively with members of their own gender
Gerontosexuality - distinct preference for sexual relationships primarily or exclusively with an elderly partner
Incest - sex with a sibling or parent
Kleptophilia - obtaining sexual excitement from stealing
Klismaphilia - erotic pleasure derived from enemas
Lesbian - a homosexual female
Lewdness - sexually unchaste; inciting to lust or debauchery
Masturbation - erotic stimulation of one’s own genitals
Necrophilia - sexual arousal and/or activity with a corpse
Paraphilia - a condition in which a person's sexual arousal and gratification depend on fantasizing about and engaging in sexual behavior that is atypical and extreme
Partialism - A fetish in which a person is sexually attracted to a specific body part exclusive of the person.
Pederasty - Sex between an adult and a child, usually an adult male and a male child.
Pedophilia - Sexual contact between an adult and a child
Bisexual Pedophilia – term used for an adult who derives sexual gratification from sexual contact with a child without regard to the sex of the child
Heterosexual Pedophilia - term used for an adult who derives sexual gratification from sexual contact with a child of the opposite sex
Gay Pedophilia - term used for a male adult who derives sexual gratification from sexual contact with a child of the same sex
Lesbian Pedophilia - term used for a female adult who derives sexual gratification from sexual contact with a child of the same sex
Prostitution - the act or practice of offering sexual stimulation or intercourse for money
Sexual masochism - obtaining sexual gratification by being subjected to pain or humiliation
Sexual sadism - the intentional infliction of pain or humiliation on another person in order to achieve sexual excitement
Telephone scatalogia - sexual arousal associated with making or receiving obscene phone calls
Toucherism - characterized by a strong desire to touch the breast or genitals of an unknown woman without her consent; often occurs in conjunction with other paraphilia
Transsexual - a person whose gender identity is different from his or her anatomical gender
Transvestite - a person who is sexually stimulated or gratified by wearing the clothes of the other gender
Urophilia - sexual arousal associated with urine
Voyeurism - obtaining sexual arousal by observing people without their consent when they are undressed or engaged in sexual activity
Zoophilia/Bestiality - engaging in sexual activity with animals