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Adam Kwasman, Asshole of the Day for July 16, 2014

by TeaPartyCat (Follow @TeaPartyCat)

The migrant children crisis enters its second month, and while the politicians have yet to solve it, there's been a real clown car of rhetoric with some calling for shooting children at the border to others claiming that Obama is somehow in on a scheme that involves Central American gang violence pushing parents to send their children thousands of miles by themselves for the hope of a better life. But of course if you've been reading this blog for a while, you know that people don't think through the accusations they hurl at opponents.

But yesterday we had a new entry from Arizona. State legislator and GOP congressional candidate Adam Kwasman went out to protest a school bus full of children and ended up looking like a fool:

Adam Kwasman had just raced up to Phoenix Tuesday morning from the Oracle protest over the expected arrival of dozens of migrant children at a shelter.
He had tweeted from the scene, "Bus coming in. This is not compassion. This is the abrogation of the rule of law." He included a photo of the back of a yellow school bus.
Kwasman later told me he saw the migrant children. "I was actually able to see some of the children in the buses. The fear on their faces.... This is not compassion," he said.
But there was a problem with Kwasman's story: There was no fear on their faces. Those weren't the migrant children in the school bus. Those were children from the Marana school district. They were heading to the YMCA's Triangle Y Camp, not far from the Rite of Passage shelter for the migrants, at the base of Mt. Lemmon.

And he doesn't just look like a fool, he looks like a racist too. He says he saw the children, and that was enough to confirm that they were the undocumented migrants. He'd hardly be the first racist nativist to assume everyone darker than him is illegal, though few of them actually get so far as to confront a school bus of citizens. But he did. And for that, Adam Kwasman is Asshole of the Day.

It is Adam Kwasman's first time as Asshole of the Day, though one of many during the immigration crisis:

Full story: Arizona Republic (sent by the Everlasting GOPstoppers)

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Is Olivia Cajero Bedford Asshole of the Day?

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Is Sen. Olivia Cajero Bedford asshole of the day for telling her colleague to "act more gay"?

Sen. Olivia Cajero Bedford questioned Sen. Steve Gallardo’s honesty in regards to his sexual orientation in a closed-door caucus meeting on Tuesday and said Gallardo should “act more gay.”
Gallardo told Arizona Capitol Times that Cajero Bedford, D-Tucson, questioned his integrity because he only recently announced that he was gay and said he should not stay in a leadership position while running for Congress. Cajero Bedford later called for a vote to remove Gallardo from his post as the Senate’s minority whip, which failed 3-8.
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Cajero Bedford said her comments about Gallardo needing “to act more gay” were an attempt at humor: “I said, ‘You ought to act more gay,’ and he said, ‘I can’t.’”
“It was an attempt to be sort of neutral. I’m fine with him being gay or not,” Cajero Bedford said.
However, she said that she felt his keeping his sexual orientation a secret was a matter of honesty.
“Why was he hiding it? It wouldn’t have made any difference,” she said.
Gallardo dismissed Cajero Bedford’s comments about his sexual orientation, but her comments did shock lawmakers, he said.
“It took people back,” Gallardo said. “It sucked the air out of the room.”
http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2014/04/01/az-dem-sen-olivia-cajero-bedford-tells-gay-colleague-steve-gallardo-act-more-gay/

Gauging by the reaction of the room, she wasn't joking, and only claims to have been now  once she saw the reaction. 

In any event she was challenging his honesty and integrity for not coming out sooner, with complete disregard for how hard that may have been or whether coming out sooner may have meant discrimination or even violence.

Photo source: http://www.azleg.gov/MembersPage.asp?Member_ID=27&Legislature=50&Session_ID=102

#asshole#Olivia Cajero Bedford#Arizona#Democrat#Gay Slurs
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Is Tom Horne Asshole of the Day?

Is Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne asshole of the day for saying convicted felons shouldn't be allowed to vote because they'll "legalize bank robbery"?

During an interview on NewsMax, Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne (R) was asked about this case, and moves to automatically restore the voting rights of those who have completed their sentences.
He warned, “I can just picture politicians appealing to the convicted felons’ vote by saying that they’ll legalize bank robbery or whatever. It doesn’t really make sense to permit convicted felons to vote.”
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/03/26/3418838/the-united-states-still-sentences-kids-to-life-without-parole/

What's wrong with letting people who've served their sentences vote again? If they've paid their debt to society, then why should they lose rights? 

Keep in mind that many people are in jail because of drug crimes which are now in some places no longer illegal.

And that there's a huge racial disparity in enforcement and sentencing. Then again, maybe that's all we need to know.

Photo source: https://twitter.com/arizonaago

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Is Phil Jensen Asshole of the Day?

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Is Sen. Phil Jensen asshole of the day for saying businesses should be allowed to refuse to serve blacks or gays?

"If someone was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, and they were running a little bakery for instance, the majority of us would find it detestable that they refuse to serve blacks, and guess what? In a matter of weeks or so that business would shut down because no one is going to patronize them," Jensen told the Rapid City Journal in a story that suggested he just might be the crimson red state's "most conservative lawmaker."
In this year's legislative session, Jensen offered up a bill that was even more extreme than the legislation in Arizona that would have given businesses an opening to discriminate against LGBT customers.
Unlike the Arizona bill, Jensen's measure was explicit. It aimed to give business owners permission to deny service based on a customer's "sexual orientation" without the fear of a lawsuit.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/south-dakota-lawmaker-phil-jensen-kkk-bakery-businesses-deny-black-customers

The free market. But what if there's lots of racists or homophobes in a small town? Then what? Then that business does fine, especially since it might win business from a bakery that doesn't discriminate, because people want to patronize the business that shares their hate. Then the nondiscriminatory one goes out of business and the gay or black person has no bakery to go to.

But that's OK to Sen. Jensen, I guess, because the free market did it.

Look, the free market isn't perfect, and denying services to minorities is wrong and disadvantages them. If people want to sell to the public at all, then the government is allowed to force them to sell to everyone. The Constitution and the Supreme Court have been very clear about that the last 50 years.

Photo source: http://www.philjensen.org/where-phil-stands

#asshole#Phil Jensen#homophobe#racist#bigot#homophobia#racism#Jim Crow#KKK#anti-gay law#Arizona#SB1062#GOP
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Jim Brown, Asshole of the Day for March 14, 2014

by TeaPartyCat (Follow @TeaPartyCat)

What goes through the mind of someone who comes to the defense of slavery? We really want to know. What gets someone to say this?

In a post on his Facebook page that was—in theory, anyway—about federal spending, Jim Brown, who’s running in Arizona’s 2nd Congressional District, compared modern-day “entitlements” to slavery. But even more disturbing, perhaps, he denied that slavery was, first and foremost, a brutally violent institution:
Back in the day of slavery, slaves were kept in slavery by denying them education and opportunity while providing them with their basic needs .. Not by beating them and starving them. (Although there were isolated cases if course) Basically slave owners took pretty good care of their slaves and livestock and this kept business rolling along.
This flies in the face, of course, of all credible historical accounts, including the recent Academy Award-winning film 12 Years a Slave. Brown’s comments, therefore, not only make him sound woefully ill-informed but—more troubling for Republicans—also make him and his party sound extreme, rendering him a potentially toxic candidate in a winnable district.

It seems like it should go without saying that Gone With The Wind wasn't a documentary. It's a whitewash. It's wishful thinking. It is not representative of reality. I'm at a loss as to how people come up with this shit.

But there's more to Mr. Brown's story-- since the outcry over this statement he posted this "apology":

I made a post yesterday implying that the entitlement state being created in our country is similar to to the method slave owners used to keep their slaves under control. (Taking care of their basic needs while denying them real education and opportunity) Some people read this to mean that I didn't think slavery was that bad. I believe that slavery is worse than death - yesterday, today and tomorrow. I apologize to anyone I offended. If I had it to do over I would have been more careful with my wording, but you don't get do overs in politics. So, I'll have to pay the price for this. My platform is "responsibility" and I accept the responsibility.

He still doesn't get it. Slave owners didn't keep their slave owners under control by "taking care of their basic needs while denying them real education and opportunity." They kept them enslaved with whips and chains and beatings and terror. They kept them enslaved by enlisting the state to hunt them down with the Fugitive Slave Act. To think your argument could be misunderstand presupposes that it's a valid argument to make-- that the comparison has some basis in reality, which it doesn't.

And that's not the half of it-- this argument of his is half-plagiarized from Sarah Palin, who last fall said that the national debt Obama was racking up was like slavery, and then doubled down under criticism to accuse black people of not understanding her definition of slavery.

So for pretending that slavery wasn't so bad for purposes of a weak, forced argument, and then getting indignant when people get outraged, Jim Brown is the Asshole of the Day.

It is Jim Brown's first time as Asshole of the Day. He's not the first slavery apologist to be featured on the site. Unfortunately.

Full story: The Root

#asshole of the day#Jim Brown#slavery#slavery apologist#Arizona#Republican#not that Jim Brown#GOP#entitlements#small government#racist#racism
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Is Jim Brown Asshole of the Day?

Is Arizona Republican Jim Brown asshole of the day for saying “slave owners took pretty good care of their slaves”?

In a post on his Facebook page that was—in theory, anyway—about federal spending, Jim Brown, who’s running in Arizona’s 2nd Congressional District, compared modern-day “entitlements” to slavery. But even more disturbing, perhaps, he denied that slavery was, first and foremost, a brutally violent institution:
Back in the day of slavery, slaves were kept in slavery by denying them education and opportunity while providing them with their basic needs .. Not by beating them and starving them. (Although there were isolated cases if course) Basically slave owners took pretty good care of their slaves and livestock and this kept business rolling along.
This flies in the face, of course, of all credible historical accounts, including the recent Academy Award-winning film 12 Years a Slave. Brown’s comments, therefore, not only make him sound woefully ill-informed but—more troubling for Republicans—also make him and his party sound extreme, rendering him a potentially toxic candidate in a winnable district.
http://www.theroot.com/articles/politics/2014/03/arizona_republican_compares_government_spending_to_slavery.html

And he’s hardly the first slavery apologist we’ve featured. Just last week we showed American Spectator’s James Bowman complaining that 12 Years A Slave had no positive portrayals of slave owners. 

And Mr. Brown is not alone. Last year at CPAC a guy stood up to defended slavery during a minority outreach panel:

After the presenter, K. Carl Smith of Frederick Douglass Republicans, answered by referencing a letter by Frederick Douglass forgiving his former master, the audience member said “For what? For feeding him and housing him?” Several people in the audience cheered and applauded Terry’s outburst.

So listen up, people— if you’re going to compare something to slavery, make sure it includes actual bondage, kidnapping, rape, beatings, and murder, as well as denial of the fruits of your own labor. That’s what slavery is. That’s what slavery was in this  country for hundreds of years. So you don’t get to act like some kind of martyr when people get upset because you compare the national debt to slavery (Sarah Palin). And you don’t get to act like it was OK and just good business and slaves were taken care of on the basis of watching Gone With The Wind  and its self-serving whitewash of history.

Photo source: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jim-Brown-To-Congress/1395712604018604

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Is Jan Brewer Asshole of the Day?

Is Gov. Jan Brewer asshole of the day for helping to write the anti-gay bill she later vetoed as unnecessary and behind the times?

A lot has been written about Arizona SB1062, the bill that would've allowed businesses to refuse to serve gays as long as they make up some cockamamie religious reason for doing so. 

We were happy when Gov. Brewer vetoed it. 

But it turns out Brewer was in on the bill at the beginning, and not someone who had to make a tough decision at the end:

Before it attracted any national attention, advisers to Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) offered guidance on the anti-gay legislation that she eventually vetoed at the end of February -- a veto that came down even though the bill's drafters say they made every change that the governor's office requested.

Capitol Media Services reported Monday on the meetings that Brewer's advisers, Michael Hunter and Joe Sciarrota, had with the Center for Arizona Policy, which drafted and pushed the bill. They began in January before the legislative session commenced; the bill was introduced Jan. 14.

CAP president Cathi Herrod told the news agency that her organization made every change Brewer's aides asked for. One of the biggest alterations was a three-pronged test to determine if somebody's exercise of a religious belief was covered by the proposed law.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/brewer-office-worked-anti-gay-bill

Yeah, so she was in on it. Yes, it's nice she vetoed it, but let's not overlook what an asshole she was in helping to propose it.

Of course we always knew she was no hero-- we called her out for taking too long to decide on a veto. We asked how hard is it to decide whether to legalize bigotry or not?

I guess it really did take the NFL threatening to take the Super Bowl away for her to change her mind on this, whereas many people were wondering what it would take to make up her mind.

What an asshole!

Photo source: https://twitter.com/GovBrewer/status/438838664928325633

#asshole#Jan Brewer#SB1062#Arizona#anti-gay law#bigot#homophobe#religious freedom#religious bigotry
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Michele Bachmann, Asshole of the Day for March 11, 2014

by TeaPartyCat (Follow @TeaPartyCat)

Gov. Jan Brewer vetoed Arizona SB1062 last week. That was the bill that allowed businesses to discriminate gays as long as they claimed some cockamamie religious reason for doing so. As though religious freedom means the government has to let you deny citizens services if your God says you have to.

To be clear, people are allowed to be religious. They are allowed to keep gay people out of their churches, if that's their thing. But if they own a bakery, they are not allowed to deny a gay couple a wedding cake. If you're in the business of baking wedding cakes, you don't get to pick who to sell to. You aren't forced to bake wedding cakes by the state, but you are forced to treat all customers equally.

But that's not enough for some people. For some, the desire for equal rights and equal treatment is too much of a burden on their sacred right to be horrible bigots. Michele Bachmann sums it up in her own way:

“And the thing that I think is getting a little tiresome is the gay community have so bullied the American people and they have so intimidated politicians that politicians fear them and they think they get to dictate the agenda everywhere. Well, not with the Constitution you don’t.”
She added that gay people and “activist judges” are trying to take away her freedom: “If you want take away my religious liberties, you can advocate for that but you do it through the constitutional process and you don’t intimidate and no politician should give away my religious liberties or yours.”

Look, it’s not bullying to insist on equal rights.

Nor is it unconstitutional. The Constitution protects rights to equal treatment. The Constitution does not protect one group's right to discriminate and deny rights to other citizens.

There's a bully in this fight over gay marriage, but it's not the gays who are merely asking to have the same rights and responsibilities as every other adult citizen. No, the bullies are the people pushing laws that allow discrimination and deny equal rights to all.

The Constitution does not say that your religion trumps mine or anyone else’s. It does not require that I follow your religious rules, or that the state should make me. Your religion is your business. If you choose to do business, then the state has the right to regulate it. You're not special under the law just because of your religion. We all live under the same law. Freedom of religion is not freedom of business.

But for acting like the Constitution gives Christians special rights and accusing gays who just want equal rights of being bullies, Michele Bachmann is the Asshole of the Day.

It is Michele Bachmann's first time being named Asshole of the Day.

Full story: Right Wing Watch

#asshole of the day#Michele Bachmann#gay marriage#Religious Liberty#religious bigotry#SB1062#Arizona#gay rights#bigot#homophobe#anti-gay law#GOP#Minnesota
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Is Michele Bachmann Asshole of the Day?

Is Michele Bachmann asshole of the day for saying "the gay community has bullied the American people"?

Regarding Arizona SB1062 Rep. Bachmann said:

“And the thing that I think is getting a little tiresome is the gay community have so bullied the American people and they have so intimidated politicians that politicians fear them and they think they get to dictate the agenda everywhere. Well, not with the Constitution you don’t.”

She added that gay people and “activist judges” are trying to take away her freedom: “If you want take away my religious liberties, you can advocate for that but you do it through the constitutional process and you don’t intimidate and no politician should give away my religious liberties or yours.”

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/michele-bachmann-laments-gay-community-have-so-bullied-american-people

No, it's not bullying to insist on equal rights. And neither is it unconstitutional.

You know what's bullying and wrong-- trying to push laws that allow discrimination.

The Constitution does not say that your religion trumps mine or anyone else's. It does not require that I follow your religious rules, or that the state should make me. Your religion is your business. If you choose to do business, then the state has the right to regulate it. 

Freedom of religion is not freedom of business.

Photo source: http://bachmann.house.gov/about-michele/official-photo

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George Will, Asshole of the Day for March 3, 2014

by TeaPartyCat (Follow @TeaPartyCat)

In the wake of Gov. Jan Brewer's veto of Arizona SB1062, the bill which would have allowed businesses to deny service to anyone as long as they pretended they had some cockamamie reason it was against their religion, conservatives are still looking for ways to allow discrimination against gays. Having, in all likelihood, lost the fight against gay marriage in light of recent judges striking down same sex marriage bans, they still want to keep gays from achieving the full set of rights and services every other couple in America gets.

There has been no end to the excuses. Last week I enumerated and debunked all the weak arguments and hyperbole (It's Jim Crow for Christians! It's forcing us to aid and abet sin!). But still they march on. George Will had a new one on Sunday-- that "it’s not neighborly and it’s not nice" for gays to insist the government enforce their equal treatment under the law:

“With as many taxes that businesses have to pay, how does this government think they have any justification to tell a business who they will and won’t serve?” the viewer wanted to know.
Will pointed out the public accommodations section of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 said that businesses had to serve everyone equally.
“That’s a settled issue,” the pundit noted. “That said, this too must be said: It’s a funny kind of sore winner in the gay rights movement that would say, ‘A photographer doesn’t want to photograph my wedding — I’ve got lots of other photographers I could go to, but I’m going to use the hammer of government to force them to do this.’”
“It’s not neighborly and it’s not nice,” he added. “The gay rights movement is winning. They should be, as I say, not sore winners.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/02/george-will-its-not-neighborly-for-lgbt-people-to-ask-for-equal-rights/

Yes, businesses having to serve black people is “a settled issue”. But the rest of the argument is bunk. Let's take it apart:

Gays could always find another photographer or baker if the one they ask won't do gay weddings. How do you know this, George? What if they are in a remote area with only a few photographers or only one or two bakeries and none will do it? What then?

They are just being meanies in insisting they get equal treatment and that the law back them up. “It’s not neighborly and it’s not nice.” Before businesses were required to serve blacks by law, was it "not neighborly" of them to insist? No? Then how is it any different for gays to expect the government to enforce the 14th Amendment for them? I mean, really-- would he have told black people in 1955 that they don't need to insist that Woolworth's serve them because some other business probably will?

And furthermore it's naive to think that in a community there would always be someone to serve a gay couple. If 98% of weddings in an area are heterosexual couples, then it wouldn't be hard for some of those heterosexual couples to refuse to go to a photographer or baker who does gay weddings. Local groups could pressure them to put up "no gays allowed" signs, if that were legal. And before long, no one will serve gays. That wouldn't happen everywhere, but you certainly can't look at the state of gay rights backlash in this country and pretend that it wouldn't happen in some places.

But then you're a smart guy, Mr. Will. You know this, or are smart enough to figure it out. You just don't care whether gay people are allowed to get married or to have the same services at their weddings that straight couples get. And for that, you are the Asshole of the Day.

It is George Will's second time being named Asshole of the Day. His previous win was for comparing Obamacare to the Fugitive Slave Law.

Full story: Raw Story

#asshole of the day#George Will#Fox News#Arizona#SB1062#gay marriage#gay weddings#gay wedding cake#Christian baker#religious bigotry#religious discrimination#Jim Crow#bigot
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Is George Will Asshole of the Day (again)?

Is George Will asshole of the day for saying it isn't "neighborly" of gay people to insist on equal rights?

“With as many taxes that businesses have to pay, how does this government think they have any justification to tell a business who they will and won’t serve?” the viewer wanted to know.
Will pointed out the public accommodations section of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 said that businesses had to serve everyone equally.
“That’s a settled issue,” the pundit noted. “That said, this too must be said: It’s a funny kind of sore winner in the gay rights movement that would say, ‘A photographer doesn’t want to photograph my wedding — I’ve got lots of other photographers I could go to, but I’m going to use the hammer of government to force them to do this.’”
“It’s not neighborly and it’s not nice,” he added. “The gay rights movement is winning. They should be, as I say, not sore winners.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/02/george-will-its-not-neighborly-for-lgbt-people-to-ask-for-equal-rights/

Businesses having to serve black people is "a settled issue". But since gays could (probably) find another photographer or baker for their wedding, they are just being meanies in insisting they get equal treatment and that the law back them up.

And given his response to gays, it seems reasonable that if businesses having to serve blacks weren't "a settled issue", that George Will would probably be saying it's bad manners for blacks to insist because there is (probably) some business that would serve them.

Look, Mr. Will, either you're for equal rights or you're not. Trying to suppress the fight for equal rights by saying it's impolite is name-calling.

Photo source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/authors/george_will/

#asshole#George Will#Arizona#SB1062#equal rights#gay rights#gay marriage#gay wedding cake#gay wedding
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Is Jennifer Rubin Asshole of the Day?

Is Jennifer Rubin asshole of the day for equating helping black men with discriminating against gay couples?

In her Post blog the following day, Rubin falsely characterized this push as a "federal program" which would discriminate against white men, claiming it was potentially unconstitutional and attacking the administration for using "victimhood as a political weapon" to divide the country:
The problem with hyping gender and racial differences is not simply the increased resentment and divisiveness it creates but also that it uses victimhood as a political weapon. Pretty soon words like "discrimination" lose meaning. It seems you are either for an inclusive society -- devoted to diminishing racial, ethnic, religious and other distinctions -- or you're not.
Like the Arizona anti-gay law, no good can come from a program that divides up the population by these categories.
The proposed Arizona legislation, which failed this week after Republican Governor Jan Brewer vetoed the measure because it could result in "negative consequences," would have allowed businesses to deny service to gay people on religious grounds. The bill was so extreme that even multiple Fox News personalities compared it to Jim Crow laws in the racist South, noting it was "profoundly unconstitutional" and "potentially dangerous."                                 
My Brother's Keeper, on the other hand, is not a law which could codify segregation and endorse impermissibly discriminatory practices. In fact, Rubin's criticism of the program as "flat-out unconstitutional" manages to mangle both her source and constitutional law. Rubin exaggerated a National Review Online blog, which was far more careful than her description conveyed -- likely in recognition of the fact that race-conscious law is not and has never been automatically illegal. If state action uses race as a criteria and someone sues, a court must first carefully scrutinize the government's reasons and only then decide whether the program is constitutional. It's not even clear that the government "task force" for this partnership controls the funding and administration of these private programs, making the reference to its constitutionality and the Fourteenth Amendment likely irrelevant.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/02/28/jennifer-rubin-helping-young-black-men-is-the-s/198281

I suppose in the general sense we see this a lot-- the attempt to take something you're opposed to and then compare it to something we can all agree is bad. In fact Arizona SB1062 had defenders try this-- they compared it to Jim Crow but for Christians for example.

So what's she doing? Comparing helping people to discriminating against people.

It's amazing what some people can do when they make their minds up about something before they even know what it's about.

Photo source: https://twitter.com/JRubinBlogger

#asshole#Jennifer Rubin#Washington Post#WaPo#Arizona#SB1062
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Cathi Herrod, Asshole of the Day for February 27, 2014

by TeaPartyCat (Follow @TeaPartyCat)

Cathi Herrod is the president of The Center for Arizona Policy, the organization that crafted Arizona Bill #1062 that Gov. Jan Brewer vetoed yesterday. So naturally she was upset at the veto:

Today’s veto of SB 1062 marks a sad day for Arizonans who cherish and understand religious liberty.
SB 1062 passed the legislature for one reason only: to guarantee that all Arizonans would be free to live and work according to their faith.
Opponents were desperate to distort this bill rather than debate the merits. Essentially, they succeeded in getting a veto of a bill that does not even exist.
When the force of government compels one to speak or act contrary to their conscience, the government injures not only the dignity of the afflicted, but the dignity of our society as a whole.

Of course she couldn't be more wrong. Her cry of "religious liberty" is ridiculous. If she is upset that serving gays is a violation of her religion, then why has she never been upset that businesses have to serve people who've committed other sins that her religion condemns? You know, like the 10 commandments. Is it a violation of religious liberty if a baker has to bake a cake for someone who was previously divorced? She seems very silent on this.

And really, is her religion nothing more than hating and oppressing gays? It sure seems so from her whining here. Look, Ms. Herrod, Jesus said NOTHING about gays in the New Testament, but talked non-stop about helping the poor. So why are YOU so focused on gays and not on the poor? Your religion is NAMED for Jesus after all.

But beyond her whining, there's been lots of hyperbole about this law, so before this chapter (hopefully) gets closed, I'm going to spell out all the things wrong with this law and its crybaby defenders:

#1 It's not slavery, Tea Party Nation president Judson Phillips. Slavery isn't when a baker is forced to sell a cake to a gay couple. Slavery is when someone is forced to bake cakes and is not permitted to do anything else by threat of violence or death. Slavery is when someone has no claim on the fruits of their labor. If a baker doesn't want to make cakes for gay weddings, he is free to stop being a baker and do another profession; slaves are not.

#2 It's not "Jim Crow for Christians", Bryan Fischer. Jim Crow denied voting rights, fair juries, and was enforced by lynching and other terrors.

#3 It's not second class citizenship, Todd Starnes. There is no right that Christians are being denied that someone else gets.

And it might be racist for people to suggest that the failure of this law is slavery, Jim Crow or second class citizenship, because you are minimizing the suffering of African Americans under slavery and Jim Crow by comparing not being able to persecute gays to being enslaved or to living without basic rights under terror of lynching.

#4 It's not fascism, Tucker Carlson. But nice try with your half-assed Nazi analogy.

#5 It's not “aiding and abetting sin”, Erick Erickson. Not unless you think bakers are also aiding and abetting sin when they sell to adulterers, divorcees, liars, robbers, those who say "God damn it" or to those who have tattoos, eat shellfish, or covet. And you have been silent on all those items.

#6 Defeating this law is not some sinister gay agenda, Rush Limbaugh. Insisting on the same rights and treatment as everyone else gets is not sinister.

Christianity is more than hatred and persecution of gays (if it should even be part of it at all). Lots more. And it's so wrong for you to pretend that not being able to persecute gays means you can't practice your religion.

So no, Cathi Herrod, it is not a sad day for religious liberty, unless persecuting gays is what your religion is all about:

Today marks a sad day for Arizonans who understand and cherish the kind of religious liberty that can only come from persecuting gays.
— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat)
February 27, 2014

And that is why Cathi Herrod is Asshole of the Day.

It is Cathi Herrod's first time being named Asshole of the Day.

Full story: http://www.azpolicy.org/newsroom/cathi-herrods-statement-on-the-veto-of-sb-1062

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Is Todd Starnes Asshole of the Day (again)?

Is Todd Starnes asshole of the day for saying Jan Brewer made "Christians in her state second class citizens"?

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer makes Christians in her state second class citizens.
— toddstarnes (@toddstarnes) February 27, 2014

No, sorry. She kept gay citizens on the same level as everyone else.

How many times do I have to keep saying this-- discrimination against homosexuals is not a right that is being taken away.

The only way Todd Starnes is correct here is if he also believes that by getting rid of Jim Crow that white Southerners were made second class citizens. Will he say that? I doubt it. But make no mistake-- that's what he's saying here with regards to discriminating against gays.

And it's also just so insulting that he defines Christians as so maniacally focused on hating gays. Because he isn't suggesting that Christian businesses discriminate against

  • adulterers
  • divorcees
  • liars
  • murderers
  • robbers
  • people who covet
  • people who say "God damn it"

Nope. Only the gays.

Discriminating against gays is the most important part of Christianity to Todd Starnes, and I wish more Christians were upset about him wrapping his bigotry in their religion.

There's a more thorough destruction of this poor Christian baker forced to serve gays argument when we named Erick Erickson Asshole of the Day for saying serving a gay couple is "aiding and abetting sin".

Photo source: https://twitter.com/toddstarnes

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Is Judson Phillips Asshole of the Day?

Is Tea Party Nation president Judson Phillips asshole of the day for claiming that having to sell cakes to gay couples is "slavery"?

The left and the homosexual lobby in America went into overdrive to kill this bill.  Conservatives rallied for this bill and Governor Brewer opted for cowardice instead of courage.
Why is this bill so important and what did it mean for not only Arizona but America? The issue can be boiled down to one word: Freedom.
A free man or woman controls their labor.  A slave has no control over their labor.  A free man or woman decides who they will work for and under what conditions.  The slave cannot.
The left and the homosexual lobby are both pushing slavery using the Orwellian concepts of “tolerance” and “inclusiveness.”
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/tea-party-nation-brewers-veto-imposed-slavery-mandatory-penis-cakes-homosexual-weddings

So a baker who must sell a cake to a gay couple is a slave? That's his argument.

Of course he's DEAD WRONG. Slavery would be if he had no choice in being a baker at all. Slavery would be that he couldn't close his business. Slavery would be if he were whipped or beaten or killed for not selling a cake to a gay couple. NONE OF THAT IS ON THE TABLE.Also here's where I explain how this law and other similar religious freedom laws are just a smokescreen for persecuting gays because there are many, many more important cases of sins that they are not discriminating against.

Note: I used ALL CAPS above so that stupid people who forward things without thinking will know it's the truth.

Photo source: https://twitter.com/judsonphillips

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Is Cathi Herrod Asshole of the Day?

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Is Cathi Herrod asshole of the day for saying Gov. Brewer's veto was a "sad day for Arizonans who cherish and understand religious liberty"?

Cathi Herrod is the president of The Center for Arizona Policy, which crafted the bill creating a Jim Crow system for gays that Brewer vetoed:

Today’s veto of SB 1062 marks a sad day for Arizonans who cherish and understand religious liberty. 
SB 1062 passed the legislature for one reason only: to guarantee that all Arizonans would be free to live and work according to their faith.
Opponents were desperate to distort this bill rather than debate the merits. Essentially, they succeeded in getting a veto of a bill that does not even exist.
When the force of government compels one to speak or act contrary to their conscience, the government injures not only the dignity of the afflicted, but the dignity of our society as a whole.
http://www.azpolicy.org/newsroom/cathi-herrods-statement-on-the-veto-of-sb-1062

"Religious liberty"? Is your religion nothing more than hating and oppressing gays? It sure seems so. Jesus said NOTHING about gays in the New Testament, but he talked non-stop about helping the poor. So why are YOU so focused on gays and not on the poor? Your religion is NAMED for Jesus.

So, really, what kind of religious liberty is it a sad day for? I have an idea:

Today marks a sad day for Arizonans who understand and cherish the kind of religious liberty that can only come from persecuting gays.
— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat)
February 27, 2014

Photo source: http://www.azpolicy.org/_literature_186045/Cathi_Herrod

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Is Tucker Carlson Asshole of the Day (again)?

Is Tucker Carlson asshole of the day for saying businesses being forced to serve gays is "fascism"?

CARLSON: Well it's pretty simple. I mean, if you want to have a gay wedding, fine, go ahead. If I don't want to bake you a cake for your gay wedding, that's okay too. Or [[it]] should be. That's called tolerance. But when you try and force me to bake a cake for your gay wedding and threaten me with prison if I don't, that's called fascism.
Carlson's attempts to distinguish between refusing to provide services related to a gay wedding and refusing to serve gay people in general ignore the substance of the bill. New York University constitutional law professor Kenji Yoshino has noted that the measure is broadly written enough that it would allow any individual or business owner to refuse services to any gay person as long as he or she contended that providing services would burden his or her religious beliefs. Carlson's Fox colleague Megyn Kelly seized on the "potentially dangerous" implications of the bill, pointing out that it could allow a doctor to refuse medical treatment to a gay person.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/02/26/foxs-tucker-carlson-its-fascism-for-businesses/198232

Fascism? Really?

I suppose since comparisons to Nazis are usually so widely ridiculed as hyperbole, then calling something fascism which is so widely connected to Hitler would then be the Hitler - 1 hyperbole.

In any event making businesses not discriminate against customers for bigoted reasons is not fascism. Businesses can't refuse to serve people for being black, so why should they be allowed to serve someone for being gay.

Or, Mr. Carlson, do you think it's wrong to stop businesses from refusing to serve blacks too? Because if you think one is wrong then the other is wrong too.

Photo source: http://dailycaller.com/author/tucker/

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