Candace Gingrich: A Response to the Extreme Anti-Gay Comments by My Brother

[marmar]

via AlterNet:


A Response to the Extreme Anti-Gay Comments by My Brother, New Gingrich

By Candace Gingrich, Human Rights Campaign. Posted November 24, 2008.

"You should be more afraid of the new political climate in America, because, there is no place for you in it."



Note: This letter to Newt Gingrich from his sister is prompted by his outrageous statement on Nov. 14 to Fox News's Bill O' Reilly: "I think there is a gay and secular fascism in this country that wants to impose its will on the rest of us, is prepared to use violence, to use harassment. I think it is prepared to use the government if it can get control of it. I think that it is a very dangerous threat to anybody who believes in traditional religion."


Dear Newt,

I recently had the displeasure of watching you bash the protesters of the Prop 8 marriage ban to Bill O'Reilly on FOX News. I must say, after years of watching you build your career by stirring up the fears and prejudices of the far right, I feel compelled to use the words of your idol, Ronald Reagan, "There you go, again."

However, I realize that you may have been a little preoccupied lately with planning your resurrection as the savior of your party, so I thought I would fill you in on a few important developments you might have overlooked.

The truth is that you're living in a world that no longer exists. I, along with millions of Americans, clearly see the world the way it as -- and we embrace what it can be. You, on the other hand, seem incapable of looking for new ideas or moving beyond what worked in the past.

Welcome to the 21st century, big bro. I can understand why you're so afraid of the energy that has been unleashed after gay and lesbian couples had their rights stripped away from them by a hateful campaign. I can see why you're sounding the alarm against the activists who use all the latest tech tools to build these rallies from the ground up in cities across the country.

This unstoppable progress has at its core a group we at Human Rights Campaign call Generation Equality. They are the most supportive of full LGBT equality than any American generation ever -- and when it comes to the politics of division, well, they don't roll that way. 18-24 year olds voted overwhelmingly against Prop 8 and overwhelmingly for Barack Obama. And the numbers of young progressive voters will only continue to grow. According to the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning, about 23 million 18-29 year olds voted on Nov. 4, 2008 -- the most young voters ever to cast a ballot in a presidential election. That's an increase of 3 million more voters compared to 2004. .......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/rights/108310/a_response_to_the_extreme_anti-gay_comments_by_my_brother%2C_new_gingrich/

[SpiralHawk]

1. "Newtie can't help himself. He's a congenital chickenhawk, a republicon." - Candace G.

"All Americans should know by now that republicon homelander chickenhawks have, um, serious truth & hypocrisy problems -- to understate the matter."

- Candace G.

[Mike Nelson]

2. We got the wrong Gingrich

Candace ROCKS!

[mnhtnbb]

3. Good on Candace! That is a spanking.

:applause:

[Tesla]

4. He thinks he is so righteous, his way or the highway

I hope he has a nice car, cause his highway just takes you back right where you came from
Oh I forgot, Go Candace!!

[liberal N proud]

5. Wow,

Glad to see this coming from his own blood

[AndyA]

6. You know, a man who has an affair and doesn't support his ill wife

gets no points with me.

I don't care if he presents himself as a conservative. Or a Christian. Or whatever.

You just don't abandon someone you vowed to love and honor. And you certainly don't do it when they're very ill.

Newt has no values, no morals, and no ethics. Republicans can choose (once again) to overlook these rather obvious issues from a party leader, but I think mainstream America will not disregard such things again, and I think that fact was demonstrated rather well during the last two elections.

Yes, there are the die hard Republicans who will vote for a person just because they have an (R) after their name, but their numbers are declining. There is a new wave of freedom and equality sweeping America, and it will not be stopped.

Time is on our side. Republican values of past centuries mean little to the majority today, because they've been proven wrong. They don't work. And they never will.

Bye, Newt. You're a dinosaur.

[Botany]

7. Slap

What really worries me is that you are always willing to use LGBT Americans as political weapons
to further your ambitions. That's really so '90s, Newt. In this day and age, it's embarrassing to
watch you talk like that. You should be more afraid of the new political climate in America, because,
there is no place for you in it.