An Honest Discourse

Saturday, April 18, 2015

Thursday, April 2, 2015

Tuesday, March 31, 2015

SIGNING CEREMONY GRAPHIC REFUTES INDIANA GOV. PENCE

When Indiana Governor Pence invited witnesses to the signing ceremony for the Indiana Religious Freedom Restoration Act, he invited Priests, Monks, Nuns, a Rabbi or two, and three excessively HOMOPHOBIC men ! Why you might ask, for an Act that has nothing to do with discrimination against gays ?

http://www.glaad.org/blog/one-simple-graphic-shows-anti-lgbt-animus-behind-indianas-new-law

AMAZING GOVERNOR PENCE ANNOUNCES THAT THERE WILL BE A "FIX" TO BILL THAT DOES NOT NEED FIXING

While expressing complete confidence in the Indiana Religious Freedom Restoration Act and extolling the fact that it is a " mirror " of the Federal Law and the laws of thirty other States, Gov. pence stated that he has asked the Indiana legislature to write a " fix " to the Act and have it on his desk by the end of the week !

So, see if I have this right. He has numerous times, on numerous media venues, specifically stated that this law does NOT allow discrimination against anyone regardless of who they are, who they love, or what are their beliefs. VOCIFEROUSLY !

Now he comes forth after a firestorm of protest across the Nation and states that the Act needs a FIX !

Wow, I can't seem to find anything to make up this week !

JEB BUSH INSINUATES BEING GAY IS A LIFESTYLE

From Igor Bobic, Huffington Post

“I think Gov. [Mike] Pence has done the right thing,” former Florida governor and likely 2016 contender Jeb Bush said in a Monday interview. “I think once the facts are established, people aren’t going to see this as discriminatory at all.”

As a reason why such laws are necessary, Bush pointed to the case of a Washington state florist who was fined for refusing to provide flowers for a same-sex wedding.

“There are many cases where people acting on their conscience have been cascaded by the government,” Bush told radio host Hugh Hewitt. “This law simply says the government has to have a level of burden to be able to establish there has been some kind of discrimination. We’re going to need this. This is really an important value in our country, where you can respect and be tolerant of people’s lifestyles but allow for people of faith to exercise theirs.”
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And now my take on this is :

Now I have to say that an increasing number of Republicans, their so-called pundits and those in the Religious Right when referring to LGBT issues always tend to use the word " LIFESTYLE." Always intimating that being Gay is a choice !

I would suggest to you that if being Gay is a " LIFESTYLE," then maybe being a Priest or a Rabbi or a Minister or a Heterosexual is a " LIFESTYLE."

Maybe then we can all just set up businesses that only cater to say the Catholics, or to the Lutherans, or the legally man and a woman married couples.

How about this. We use zoning to separate all businesses into " LIFESTYLE AREAS ."

If we take the ultimate step as an apartheid state, we can insist that all Mormons move to Utah, all Catholics move to Massachusetts, and all people of the " Gay LIFESTYLE " move to Indiana.

I cannot and have not made this up. It is impossible to do so ! This topic has caused me to assume the sarcastic " LIFESTYLE "

Sunday, February 15, 2015

DR. BEN CARSON THINKS WE LIVE IN A " POST CIVIL WAR WORLD "

Several Republican Presidential candidates were asked about states rights regarding same-sex marriage.

Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, a favorite among the conservative grassroots, defended Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore’s instructions. “Roy Moore understands the importance of preserving states’ rights in the modern post-Civil War world in which we live,” Carson told POLITICO in an email sent from his spokesman.

Apparently WW1, WW 2, Korean War, Vietnam War, Gulf War, Afghanistan War, Iraq War are all a distant memory.

I know, you think he was talking about States Rights, but Dr. Ben Carson always talks as if we live in a Nation solely based on the Bible and the Constitution. He feels that we should be governed according to his God's law and that it is manifested within the Constitution.

It is not necessarily that he isn't aware of his surroundings, he simply dreams of donning knickers, hose, and buckled shoes to tend to the wounded on the battlefield at Appomattox with copies of the Bible and the Constitution in his satchel.

I didn't make this up,

Monday, February 2, 2015

GROUNDHOG DAY AGAIN

Welcome to Groundhog Republican Spin Day ! Who would believe that someone actually scheduled the House Rules Committee to set the rules for the 56th or 57th iteration of the REPEAL OBAMACARE ACT on GROUNDHOG DAY .

While I have your attention I should point out that the Republicans declared four years ago that the various concerned committees would develop alternative proposals to replace what they lovingly call "OBAMACARE" with something else. To this date not a single committee has reported forward any single proposal. Not one single committee ! In four years ! Not one single idea !

I cannot make these things up. I have tried and tried, but the Republican Party always, always, beats me to it !