When my head stops exploding, I’ll let you know.
Rick Perry is skipping this weekend’s celebration and unveiling of the new MLK memorial in Washington, D.C. (No surprise there.)
Instead, Perry will be heading to Fredericksburg, Texas to attend a “call to action” retreat/fundraiser, where he will hobknob with religious nutbag and self-styled historian David Barton.
From Joy-Ann Reid at The Grio:
Barton was among a group of Texas conservatives who in 2010 sought to revise that state’s textbooks to promote their view that the notion of a constitutional separation of church and state is a myth, and that students should be taught a version of American history that blends theology with themes of a constant clash of civilizations between Christians and Muslims.
According to a Washington Monthly article in January 2010, Barton, the former head of the Texas Republican Party, and Peter Marshall, who the article described as “a Massachusetts-based preacher who has argued that California wildfires and Hurricane Katrina were God’s punishment for tolerating gays,” had even more ideas in mind when they testified before the Texas Education Assembly. Per the Washington Monthly:
Barton and Peter Marshall initially tried to purge the standards of key figures of the civil rights era, such as César Chávez and Thurgood Marshall, though they were forced to back down amid a deafening public uproar. They have since resorted to a more subtle tack; while they concede that people like Martin Luther King Jr. deserve a place in history, they argue that they shouldn’t be given credit for advancing the rights of minorities.
As Barton put it, “Only majorities can expand political rights in America’s constitutional society.” Ergo, any rights people of color have were handed to them by whites–in his view, mostly white Republican men.
<blank stare>
I just watched Joy Reid make an excellent point on Al Sharpton’s show, and that is (in my words): If right-wing nutbags are going to keep pounding the Jeremiah Wright/”Goddamn America!” drum (and you know they will, even though they can’t explain how Barack Obama is simultaneously a secret Muslim and an America-hating Christian), then Democrats need to make sure that Rick Perry is held accountable for the racist and utterly absurd views of his BFF, David Barton.
This is your Republican party, people.
Drink it in. Let the crazy wash over you.
My head is still exploding.
[via The Grio]
And how, then, do they rationalize Hurricane Rita and Texas’ current drought and this summer’s related spate of wildfires?
Maybe they need to take a hint themselves.
(Someone also needs to document John Hagee and his hate-mongering in Perry’s corner too!)
That’s just coincidence. Nothing to do with anything. It matters ONLY when it’s YOU who is harmed – that’s God’s judgment. They’re born again. They can do anything they want. God would not punish TEXAS. Mercy me, no way.
YOU’RE WELCOME!!
:P
we are so grateful! ;)
Perry is scary. Seriously.
Barton needs to be slapped upside the head.
Listen, if the effing Progressives keep on undermining, you’ll wake up one morning with President Perry having a Cabinet meeting with effing David Barton as Secretary of Education. This is truly scary.
Just one more reason to vote for Ron Paul who is not a racist and will eliminate the Dept of Education so you won’t have to worry whom he appoints. LOL
While there may be one or two reasons to vote for that lunatic, there are thousands of reasons not to.
Both Paul and his even more repellent son need consignment to “the dustbin of history” and the sooner the better, along with all the Randian/Libertarian nonsense that, like cancer, has metastasized in society.
This kind of ignorance is sad but to be this open with it, is even sadder! Really, no one gave anything the Civil Rights Movement was won through blood, sweat and tears! To say anything less is ignorant and crazy. No one group has ever accomplished anything in America the great melting pot! It was wrong to ignore African-Americans from the beginning and the movement demonstrated the contributions of African-Americans as well as the monetary power!
At least “God” has taken Peter Marshall out of the equation.
I can explain Rick Perry to you. When he pulled his head out of his ass, his head fell off, and all that was left was a talking asshole.
To paraphrase Reverend Wright: GOD DAMN REPUBLITURDS!
OTT. And, there are people who belive it.
I am not at all sure how well Perry will play outside TX.
you rock, ABL
thanks for this
About gods punishing a particular group of people by sending a disaster to a mass population that happens to contain a real or imagined higher proportion of the offending peeps,
if you consider HIV/AIDS to be a punishment for bad sexual behavior,
consider the LEAST likely sexual activity for contracting the virus is FEMALE to FEMALE.
In other words, Lesbians are especially blessed children of the gods, worldwide.
Ain’t that a hoot?
I know this is an old post, but I just stumbled on to it. WTF! White people gave Black people their God given unalienable rights? Who knew?
Now my head is exploding!