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Cali_Democrat

(30,439 posts)
Mon Jul 6, 2015, 01:51 PM Jul 2015

South Carolina Republican State Sen. Lee Bright Rants Against Gays During Confederate Flag Debate

Monday’s Confederate flag debate in South Carolina got off to an unnecessarily (yet unsurprisingly) bigoted start when Republican State Sen. Lee Bright went on an anti-LGBT rant. Yes, because when I think about the Confederate flag, the first thing that comes to mind are the tendrils of the “gay mafia.”

Bright, who has campaigned on Facebook and elsewhere to keep the stars and bars flying high in South Carolina, invoked the White House’s rainbow display of colors after the Supreme Court’s Obergefell v. Hodges decision that legalized same-sex marriage in all 50 states.

Apparently, Bright had been watching Bill O’Reilly, because he was none too happy with the “abomination colors” being shone all over the executive branch’s chief symbol, according to Jezebel. He went on to say, “We can talk about a flag all we want, but the Devil is taking control of this land.” So instead of focusing on the topic at hand, Bright decided to rage hard against the recent SCOTUS decision and blame the devil for it all.

http://www.mediaite.com/online/south-carolina-sen-lee-bright-rants-against-gays-during-confederate-flag-debate/

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South Carolina Republican State Sen. Lee Bright Rants Against Gays During Confederate Flag Debate (Original Post) Cali_Democrat Jul 2015 OP
The political mullahs of Iran are near as crazy as the political pastors of America. Fred Sanders Jul 2015 #1
Clearly, this is a state senator not living up to his name /nt al bupp Jul 2015 #2
Unless his middle name is Not-Too KamaAina Jul 2015 #3
He wants to "push back against the Federal Government like our forefathers did" - civil war, muriel_volestrangler Jul 2015 #4

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
1. The political mullahs of Iran are near as crazy as the political pastors of America.
Mon Jul 6, 2015, 01:53 PM
Jul 2015

Both need to get out of imposing religion on a secular state, which is actually a thing Constitutionally banned America.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,321 posts)
4. He wants to "push back against the Federal Government like our forefathers did" - civil war,
Mon Jul 6, 2015, 02:43 PM
Jul 2015

basically. This insane bigot was elected by a bunch of dumb Republicans who are what's wrong with the USA.

His unhinged rant in full:

Members of the Senate, I heard our President sign a religious hymn and then Friday night I watched the White House be lit up in the abomination colors. It’s time. We’ve got Amazing Grace, we’ve got people in the stands here of faith. It’s time for the church to rise up. It’s time for the state of South Carolina to rise up. Romans chapter one is clear. The Bible is clear. This country was founded on Judeo Christian principles and they are under assault by the men in black robes who were not elected by you. We better make a stand. What I’d like to see is these folks that are working in the position of dealing with these marriage certificates not to have to betray their faith or have to compromise their faith in order to subject themselves to the tyranny of five judges. What we need to do is to debate this on the floor.

Our governor called us in to deal with the flag that sits out front. Let’s deal with the nation of sin that we face today. We talk about abortion but this gay marriage thing, I believe we will be one nation gone under. Like President Reagan said ‘If we’re not one nation under God, we will be one nation gone under.’ And to sanctify deviant behavior from five judges. It’s time for us to make our stand. It’s time to make our stand and we’re not doing it. We can rally together and talk about a flag all we want but the Devil is taking control of this land and we’re not stopping him. It’s time to make our stand. Let South Carolina discuss it. If the state’s got to get out of the business of marriage then let’s get out of the business of marriage because we cannot succumb to what’s to come of the future of this nation.

Now I believe that Christ teaches us to love the homosexual but He also teaches us to stand in the gap against sin and we need to make our stand. I know how people feel, of all colors, about this. I know that we need to respect our brother and love our brother but we cannot respect this sin in the state of South Carolina so I’m asking you to open up the sine die and let’s deal with marriage. If we’re not going to find some way to push back against the Federal Government like our forefathers did or push back against a tyrannical government like the founders of this nation did, let’s at least not put these citizens of South Carolina in a position where they’ve got to choose between their faith and their jobs.

http://www.wmcactionnews5.com/story/29482891/sen-bright-to-sc-senators-we-better-make-a-stand-against-same-sex-marriage-ruling

So he thinks you 'love the homosexual' by calling the rainbow 'the abomination colors'?

"It’s time for the state of South Carolina to rise up."
"We better make a stand."
"we cannot succumb to what’s to come of the future of this nation."
"find some way to push back against the Federal Government like our forefathers did or push back against a tyrannical government like the founders of this nation did"

This idiot is calling for armed rebellion. In a state legislature. Over same-sex marriage being allowed by the Supreme Court. In a debate about the battle flag for his state's previous rebellion against his own country.

If this isn't treason, then what is?
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