Pic Of The Moment: Congressman Blames Baltimore Riots On... Gay Marriage?

[EarlG]

Texas GOP lawmaker: 'What is going on in Baltimore' is because of too many gay marriages

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[allan01]

1. !@#$%^&*()_+

straight marrage has never worked nor will ever work so get off it you so and so. and marrage has not been what it has been cracked up to be with all the hype .and that is what they said about divorce . hem baltimore is about economics and a idiodic mayor . and race .

[SoapBox]

2. WTF?

Pukes and Baggers get STOOPIDER by the second.

[onehandle]

3. Gun nuts and Fox News viewers are primarily straight, older, white guys like him.

Clearly there's something 'unhealthy' about those 'traditions.'

[Johonny]

4. straight? IDK The dude that does nothing but tell you how totally not gay he is

is always the guy with a boy toy on the side. Anyone that sees that riot as a gay issue has deep seeded "Gay" issues. There is something wrong with most of them. They hate themselves and reflect that hatred on the general community.

[RKP5637]

54. Yep, SOS all the time, psychological projection by guys like him. Hopefully more and more

people are realizing they that scream all the time about marriage equality have some very serious issues and baggage going on in their heads.

[KansDem]

5. I'm envious!

I can only crap out my ass. These GOPers can do it out their mouths!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

15. Can't imagine it tastes good

Probably why many of them are always in a shitty mood.

[NewJeffCT]

6. Massachusetts has had gay marriage for about 10 years now

I haven't seen many riots going on in Mass, or nearby Connecticut, who has had it nearly as long. In fact, Connecticut and Mass finished in a virtual tie as the two best states for "quality of life" in a recent study. (high income & education levels, with low crime rates)

http://www.courant.com/data-desk/hc-study-connecticut-is-the-best-state-20150429-htmlstory.html

[awoke_in_2003]

24. If I could afford it...

and my grandchildren weren't here, I would love to live in New England.

[NewJeffCT]

28. Leaving out the grandchildren

if you stay away from the Boston area and the southwestern part of Connecticut (close to NYC), New England can be somewhat affordable. Of course, Boston is a huge metro area, and Fairfield, Litchfield and New Haven counties in Connecticut also has a ton of people and some of the most expensive zip codes in the country, so that skews the cost of living for the rest of the region when people look at affordability.

[awoke_in_2003]

29. It is beautiful country...

maybe when I retire? I work in flight simulation, and the DFW area has the largest concentration of flight sims in the world.

[IrishEyes]

34. Yes

Iowa, New Hampshire and Vermont were the next states to legalizes gay marriage. Pretty nice states with low crime and low unemployment. I used to live in Vermont.

[n2doc]

7. Texas. Home of the wing nut

Yeah there are wing nuts in all states but the Texas ones seem most goal and proud of it. Especially since Bachmann retired.

[awoke_in_2003]

25. Everything is bigger here...

including dumbasses.

[shenmue]

8. Duh

Le WTF.

[tclambert]

9. Darn it! I thought it was about fluoridation of water.

One of these times, that will be the answer. Then we can order Plan R. That's R as in Robert.

[awoke_in_2003]

26. The fluoridation caused the gay...

[Initech]

10. One track minds.

[BlueJazz]

11. !

[Quasimodem]

31. Actually ...

I would rather enjoy a loose job. All of the jobs I have had so far have been tight, restrictive and chaffing.

[geretogo]

12. This GOP gangster and his partners in crime do all they can do to export as many living wage family

jobs out of this country and have for 35 years then expects the people he has impoverished to have
these story book " healthy " marriages just like his Bible says should be . I just wished his God Satan
would take him and his kind down below and off this earth then intelligent life would flourish on earth .

[angrychair]

13. So true

"Healthy families are the ones between a man and a woman because they can have a healthy family and they can raise children in a way that is best for their future..."
EXCEPT WHEN THEY DON'T:
products of "healthy families":
Kaczynski
Dahmer
Klebold
as of 2011 numbers, 53% of marriages end in divorce.
Not one of my children's friends have parents in their first marriage.
Not saying marriage is bad. What I am saying is what it is not: a holy event, blessed by "god".
good marriages take TWO willing and active participants that want to be together. Your sky fairy has nothing to do with it.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

14. Thanks Obama!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Still In Wisconsin]

16. Well, obviously congressman...

anybody can see the rainbow flag tattoos on all of the rioters.

[El Shaman]

17. The lost 'gringo', de Hueco,

they call him here on N. La Salle barrio.

The natives call him, an honorary native name: chief 'Cool Arrow' .

[turbinetree]

18. What a..............

..................absolute BIGOT.
And just from his words in my opinion, he also sounds like he is closet racists.

Way to go Texas, not only do you elect bigots, but you have a bigot on the floor of the House of representatives, representing Texas as a BIGOT for the Lone Star State of hypocrisy---keep up the good work.


Now, if someone from his district of representation would go down to his local office and ask why in the 113th Congress---he did the following.........

Why, just ask why, he took off last year over 200 days of vacation along with his boss John Boehner, Kevin McCarthy and the entire republican establishment in the majority of power, making $14,500 a month / $174,000 a year and then doing absolutely nothing for the state.
Trying to fast track without public debate the social security and trying to gut this viable fully funded social program along with two hypocrites by the name of Delaney (D-MD) and Cole (R-OK), to privatize this program to the banks, hedge funds-----why?
Not saying a word about the TPP----why?
Voted for CAFTA---why?
Voted yes for the Korean trade policy---now losing 6,000+ and more everyday U.S steel jobs to Korea-----why?
From Jan 2011 to Apr 2015, Flores missed 81 of 3,017 roll call votes, which is 2.7%. This is worse than the median of 2.2% among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving----why?


But he comes and spews his hate, fear and logic that its about marriages, especially about human beings that love each other, no matter what there sexual feelings are-----what a BIGOT, great way to deflect your hypocrisy of doing nothing for society, except spew words like a BIGOT.

Maybe if he was a real representative instead of being a messenger of his concept of "marriages" to his tea party base of BIGOTS, but instead speak about the economic plight in this country, he then can have the floor.

[mooseman]

19. My Message to Representative Bill Flores

Dear Representative Flores:

I attempted to send you an email but apparently you don't accept emails from anyone outside your district. Since they elected you as their representative, I will assume that is because you are not used to hearing from people who use multisyllabic words.

I am writing regarding your unbelievably inane comments about the killing of a young black man in Baltimore. You said, "Healthy Marriages are the ones between a man and a woman because they can have a healthy family and they can raise children in a way that's best for their future...There is nothing like traditional marriage that does that for a child."

I was born in 1947 and adopted by a man and a woman, so I assume they meet your definition of a "healthy marriage" and a "traditional marriage." My "healthy father committed suicide when I was five years of age and my "healthy" mother was an alcoholic that spend most of my childhood and into my teens in and out of mental institutions. She committed suicide when I was twenty years of age.

I had no childhood, no stability and nobody that cared about me, in their role of a parent. I would have given anything to have had the opportunity to be adopted by a man and a man, or a woman and a woman who loved each other, loved me and raised me in a "healthy" way. You statement is not only stupid and insensitive but speaks volumes about your lack of compassion for other human beings.

Despite the lack of love and caring I received as a child there are many things I have learned to be grateful for. I will add to that list the fact that I do not live in the 17 Congressional District of Texas. I would add that you should be ashamed of yourself but I am certain you have no shame.

Sincerely yours,

[red dog 1]

50. Well stated!

Welcome to DU!

[Monk06]

20. Yep, he had a traditional father and traditional mother and look at the result.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

21. People like this really ought not speak. The ignorance displayed in his comments is astounding.

And proof positive that he's a fking idiot. But then, he's a Republican Rep. And he speaks for many equally ignorant voters.

[awoke_in_2003]

27. What is really sad...

is stupidity like this is openly celebrated in this country.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

36. I know, right? Stupid people don't like smart people.

[lewebley3]

22. Riots are Happening of because GOP polices: Regan and GOP destroyed this country!!

Its the GOP that have shipped jobs over sees! Mitt Romney shipped
millions job out of the county:

He had not paid taxes in 10 years: These were are GOP policy.


Under Clinton's African American unemployment when down to single digits

Bush crashed and GOP crashed the economy, lower the taxes on dead beat GOP,
and He decided to take this country to war on a credit card, that they now his rich friends
want the middle class to pay bill!

[jtuck004]

23. I'll take "WTF does that have to do with anything?" for $400, Alex. n/t

[xfundy]

30. Protect marriage.

Outlaw divorce.

[MNBrewer]

32. OMGz. you know what else happened before the riots?

Citizens United and Hobby Lobby. Must be that too!

[LiberalElite]

33. Sigh. I remember when Republicans were normal -

they had conservatives of course, but also real moderates AND liberals. I'm a boomer and I wonder if I'll live long enough to see normal Republicans again.

[captainarizona]

35. they do this because their is no retaliation

If the gay community would go after these homophobes they would behave themselves out of fear of retaliation.

[nxylas]

37. Makes a change from blaming "urban" culture

Most right-wing pundits are too busy bloviating about how "inner-city" people are lazy and just want free stuff to blame it on teh gay.

[Warren DeMontague]

38. Sigh. It's like they're not even trying, anymore.

Back in the day they would at least try to cobble together some sort of rationale, albeit bogus. It would follow a completely fallacious logical path, like "the deficit is caused by foot odor because there is a statistical correlation between not wearing socks and poverty"... It wouldn't make any actual sense, but at least there was a perfunctory attempt to get from A to B.

This shit is basically generated by an algorithm. Just plug whatever the fuck is wrong into the first blank, and stick "Gay Marriage" in the other one.

It's like the political equivalent of Mad Libs.

[TexasProgresive]

39. Earl, that's cruel.

I could've gone the rest of my life without seeing any words especially those from my sorry lying (non) representative.

[certainot]

40. liberals hear this irrational racist shit and ask WTF? all you have

to do is turn on the rw radio shows and you'll hear both local and national blowhards dedicating whole shows to blaming the riots on family breakdown (gays, single pregnant black women, etc)

maybe it started with one moron or crafty think tank hack, but the mechanism is the same- pump the racist crap out of 1000 unchallenged radio stations that are invisible to liberals and pretty soon the buzz is national and well established in many parts of the country.

this kind of idiocy will slither out of our congresses back to the backwater churches if the left would finally stop giving the rw radio monopoly a free speech free ride.

[yurbud]

41. yep. after a gay marriage, you don't throw rice, you throw riots.

[1handclapn]

42. this sums it all up.. nuff said

[chwaliszewski]

43. While we're handing out blame...

We used to never have iPhones being hacked into until gay marriage came along.

[marym625]

44. oy vey!

K&R!

[HassleCat]

45. He Likes Obamacare?

He seems to like the concept of "healthy" families. Maybe he's using coded language to express his support for Obamacare.

[VA_Jill]

46. Everything is bigger in Texass

Especially TEH CRAZEE!

[NCjack]

47. The riots are the GP's fault. They passed legislation and trade treaties that allowed

our capitalists to move our factories and jobs other countries. That robbed our people of decent wages, and ultimate their dignity and money to form stable families.

[nyquil_man]

48. They sure stay on point,

even when the point is fucking irrelevant.

[titanicdave]

49. Another TexASS

bubble brain spewing total garbage.......dear rep Flores.......I hope you understand what these 3 letters mean........GFY

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

51. The gasping, the last gasps of hate and intolerance from really stupid people

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

52. Worst segue ever!

[RKP5637]

53. The guy looks like an absolute buffoon! n/t