here's some bona fide hate and evil from a tea party guy ...

[writerspleasure.livejournal.com]

and i utterly repudiate and excoriate this bastard. and i find the response from the "big sky tea party associaton" unacceptably tepid, to boot. don't be like kanjorski and talk even jokingly about murdering your opponents. (this person doesn't understand individual rights, anyway. gay marriage does not/would not take away his constitutional rights!)

Montana Tea Party Leader Endorses Violence Toward Gay People
- http://gayrights.change.org/blog/view/montana_tea_party_leader_endorses_violence_toward_gay_people

Montana Tea Party Leader Axed Over Comments Concerning Hanging Of Homosexuals
- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/07/montana-tea-party-leader-_n_707171.html

Montana Tea Party Group Fires President After Anti-Gay Comments On Facebook
- http://www.mediaite.com/online/montana-tea-party-group-fires-president-after-anti-gay-comments-on-facebook/

Comments

[modernelegance.livejournal.com]

That is disgusting

Ad if you noticed he was "axed" from his position...meanwhile there are democrats who were "formerly" apart of the KKK still in congress. (If I remember correctly...)

[writerspleasure.livejournal.com]

i think the last was robert byrd, and he's a goner. (he couldn't even be a kkk'er of "integrity" - turns out he had a daughter by a black lady!)

[modernelegance.livejournal.com]

That's right, he died last year. Thank you. I couldn't remember his name at all.

[pattyoplenty.livejournal.com]

As he should be axed! There is no place for people like this moron in the Tea Party.

[mprice.livejournal.com]

I think this speaks volumes for the integrity of the Tea Party that they would throw this wingnut out on his ear for such reprehensible comments. Incitement of violence had no place in the Tea Party.

[mosinging1986.livejournal.com]

Haven't read the links yet, since my nerves can't take much more of this insanity. But a couple of general comments:

- Make sure the information is accurate. This is coming along now? And from HuffPo? Any site called 'gay rights' also makes me cautious.

- It seems accepted wisdom to label marriage in general a "right", and to frame the discussion of same sex marriage in the language of rights as well. This is inaccurate. For one thing, marriage is not anyone's right. And the restrictions on marriage apply equally to everyone. You can marry only one person, of the opposite sex, of legal age and standing to do so, and who is not already married. Therefore there are not any rights being withheld from homosexuals. Same sex advocates want special/additional rights, over and above what is already there. Let's be accurate in the way we present this subject.

- But let's say it's all accurate. The most important thing is to not fall into the trap of equating those who are against same sex marriage on principle or who disagree with homosexuality in general with those who advocate violence against homosexuals. These two things are in no way equal.

One can be strongly against homosexuality and vote against legislation promoting same sex marriage, without condoning any sort of violence against homosexuals. This line is being deliberately blurred by the media as well as homosexual activists as a method to intimidate those who do not agree with their views.