{"id":11353,"date":"2014-12-05T06:05:29","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T11:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/if-you-think-michelle-bachmann-was-bad-wait-until-you-meet-the-new-wingnuts-in-congress\/"},"modified":"2014-12-05T06:05:29","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T11:05:29","slug":"if-you-think-michelle-bachmann-was-bad-wait-until-you-meet-the-new-wingnuts-in-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/if-you-think-michelle-bachmann-was-bad-wait-until-you-meet-the-new-wingnuts-in-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"If You Think Michelle Bachmann Was Bad, Wait Until You Meet The New Wingnuts In Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>If You Think Michelle Bachmann Was Bad, Wait Until You Meet The New Wingnuts In Congress<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Republicans won big in this year&rsquo;s elections, but it&rsquo;s not because the candidates suddenly become more moderate. If anything, there was a bumper crop of candidates from the furthest fringes of the right. Unlike past electoral road kill like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.queerty.com\/why-we-love-christine-im-not-a-witch-odonnells-refusal-to-discuss-her-anti-gay-past-20110818\" target=\"_blank\">Christine &ldquo;I Am Not A Witch&rdquo; O&rsquo;Donnell<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.queerty.com\/todd-akin-legitimate-rape-20120820\" target=\"_blank\">Todd &ldquo;Legitimate Rape&rdquo; Akin<\/a>, this year&rsquo;s winners managed to keep their mouths shut during the campaign. Based on their views, however, rampant homophobia will certainly get a boost in the next Congress. Here&rsquo;s a look at some of the worst of the worst about to take their seats in the nation&rsquo;s capitol.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/docs\/2014\/12\/pxelec0710b_500px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/docs\/2014\/12\/pxelec0710b_500px-360x297.jpg\" alt=\"pxelec0710b_500px\" width=\"360\" height=\"297\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tom Emmer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you were thinking Michelle Bachmann&rsquo;s replacement would have to be an improvement, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.queerty.com\/could-michele-bachmanns-successor-be-even-worse-20130611\" target=\"_blank\">you&rsquo;d be wrong.<\/a> Emmer is every bit as much a homophone as Bachmann was. As a state legislator, he introduced a bill that would ban marriage equality and &mdash; just to be on the safe side &mdash; civil unions.<\/p>\n<p>Hice&nbsp;opposed anti-bullying legislation because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.queerty.com\/mn-gov-hopeful-tom-emmer-doesnt-want-schools-telling-his-kids-not-to-taunt-gay-kids-20100910\" target=\"_blank\">he didn&rsquo;t want the government intruding on parents<\/a> (especially parents raising homophobic brats). And he gave money to pastor Bradlee Dean, who lauded Muslims for being &ldquo;even more moral than the American Christians&rdquo; because they execute <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gays<\/a>. If anyone can meet Bachmann&rsquo;s lofty standards, it&rsquo;s Emmer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/docs\/2014\/12\/UGACRs-10th-District-Debate-035.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/docs\/2014\/12\/UGACRs-10th-District-Debate-035-360x360.jpg\" alt=\"UGACRs-10th-District-Debate-035\" width=\"360\" height=\"360\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jody Hice<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hice is a pastor and radio talk show host, and he exhibits all the qualities that combination implies. As a new Congressman from Georgia, Hice is a walking compendium of the worst lies about homosexuality: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2014\/05\/jody-hice-georgia-sodomy\" target=\"_blank\">it&rsquo;s a choice, it leads to shorter lifespans, it causes depression. <\/a>Police who arrested anti-<a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> demonstrators in New York engaged in &ldquo;Gestapo-like&rdquo; tactics, in Hice&rsquo;s view.<\/p>\n<p>Hice views marriage equality as driving down marriage&rsquo;s market value: &ldquo;Some ask the question, &lsquo;How does same-<a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">sex<\/a> &lsquo;marriage&rsquo; threaten your &nbsp;marriage?&rsquo; The answer is similar to asking, &lsquo;How does a trashy neighborhood affect you?&#8217;&rdquo; On top of all this, Hice is not the brightest bulb in the chandelier, which is pretty dim to begin with. He took <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fordham.edu\/halsall\/pwh\/swift1.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Swift&rsquo;s 1987 satire <\/a>of <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> revolution at face value and wrote how it revealed &ldquo;the radical agenda that is currently threatening our nation.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/docs\/2014\/12\/Glenn_Grothman_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/docs\/2014\/12\/Glenn_Grothman_2-360x270.jpg\" alt=\"Glenn_Grothman_2\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Glenn Grothman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Grothman won a Congressional seat in Wisconsin, where he distinguished himself in the state senate&nbsp;as an unrepentant bigot. Grothman introduced legislation that would have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.queerty.com\/wi-lawmaker-pushing-bill-that-would-classify-all-gay-parents-as-child-abusers-20120305\" target=\"_blank\">classified all gay parents as child abusers.<\/a> He wanted to ban any discussion of sexual orientation in schools because it was <a href=\"http:\/\/host.madison.com\/ct\/news\/local\/health_med_fit\/vital_signs\/article_f0ca35e4-1737-11df-b146-001cc4c03286.html\" target=\"_blank\">part of a nefarious plot to corrupt youth.<\/a> &ldquo;Why sit down with 7th graders and say to some you will be heterosexual, some homosexual? Part of that agenda which is left unsaid is that some of those who throw it out as an option would like it if more kids became homosexuals, &rdquo; he said. Grothman longed for his high school days when &ldquo;homosexuality was not on anybody&rsquo;s radar.&rdquo; Indeed, radar probably hadn&rsquo;t even been invented then.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/docs\/2014\/12\/mooney-2__medium.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/docs\/2014\/12\/mooney-2__medium.jpg\" alt=\"mooney-2__medium\" width=\"250\" height=\"275\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Alex Mooney<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Despite being a carpetbagger from Maryland, Mooney won election to a Congressional seat in West Virginia. During his stint in the Maryland legislature, Mooney was a leading opponent of marriage equality, singlehandedly blocking it in the senate for years. &ldquo;Even if homosexual &lsquo;marriage&rsquo; comes in, it&rsquo;s not going to stop; the radicals pushing this stuff are not going to stop,&rdquo; <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/dc\/alex-mooney-west-virginia-maryland\" target=\"_blank\">Mooney said in 2008.<\/a>&ldquo;They&rsquo;re going to go for &lsquo;hate speech.&rsquo; If you actually speak against the homosexual lifestyle, maybe from the pulpit if you&rsquo;re a pastor then you&rsquo;re in trouble.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/docs\/2014\/12\/BUCK-PHOTO.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/docs\/2014\/12\/BUCK-PHOTO.jpg\" alt=\"BUCK-PHOTO\" width=\"336\" height=\"420\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ken Buck<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Buck lost a Senate race in Colorado in 2010, but this time around he found a congenial Congressional district happy to send him to D.C. Part of the reason Buck lost last time is that he willingly aired his extreme views. Most famously, Buck declared that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.queerty.com\/colorado-senate-hopeful-ken-buck-being-gay-is-mostly-a-choice-but-like-alcoholism-genetics-play-a-part-20101017\" target=\"_blank\">homosexuality is a choice<\/a>&nbsp; because &ldquo;you can choose who your partner is,&rdquo; although genetics does play some role, just &ldquo;like alcoholism and some other things.&rdquo; With such enlightened views, Buck will fit right in with his colleagues.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/docs\/2014\/11\/Joni-Ernst.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/docs\/2014\/11\/Joni-Ernst-360x360.jpeg\" alt=\"Joni Ernst\" width=\"360\" height=\"360\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Joni Ernst<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ernst is the new Senator from Iowa, and she learned the lessons of past elections well by making bland statements that mask extremist beliefs. For example, Ernst says that marriage equality should be left up to the states. However, as a state legislator, she was pushing for a constitutional amendment to ban same-<a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">sex<\/a> marriage in Iowa, one of the first states to legalize it.<\/p>\n<p>More worrisome is Ernst&rsquo;s allegiance to the extreme Christian Right. At a forum hosted for candidates by religious right leader Bob Vander Plaats, who was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.queerty.com\/iowan-hero-bob-vander-plaats-wants-remaining-supreme-court-justices-to-just-pack-it-up-20101209\" target=\"_blank\">responsible for the campaign<\/a> to oust three judges who legalized marriage equality in Iowa, Ernst parroted the belief that the Constitution <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/iowa-gop-senate-candidates-vow-block-judges-who-wont-follow-biblical-law#sthash.SwnhQanm.dpuf\" target=\"_blank\">should be considered a Biblically based document.<\/a> Judges need to realize that&nbsp;the Constitution&nbsp;&ldquo;did come from God&rdquo; and that senators should &ldquo;make sure that any decisions that they have made in the past are decisions that fit within that criteria,&rdquo; she said. No one <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/pat-buchanan-joni-ernst-gal-same-kind-attractiveness-sarah-palin#sthash.1MVFHeCQ.dpuf%C2%A0called%20her%C2%A0\" target=\"_blank\">Pat Buchanan gushed<\/a> that Ernst has &ldquo;the same kind of attractiveness that Sarah Palin had at the start and that Michele Bachmann gained in the Iowa caucuses, being a very attractive, outspoken person, a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">woman<\/a> in the GOP full of passion and full of hard-core philosophy.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?a=YkAIfRTu3LQ:se6xTzbxd5U:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?a=YkAIfRTu3LQ:se6xTzbxd5U:dnMXMwOfBR0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?d=dnMXMwOfBR0\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>JohnGallagher<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/queerty2\/~3\/YkAIfRTu3LQ\/if-you-think-michelle-bachmann-was-bad-wait-until-you-meet-the-new-wingnuts-in-congress-20141205\" class=\"autohyperlink\">feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/queerty2\/~3\/YkAIfRTu3LQ\/if-you-think-michelle-bachmann-was-bad-wait-until-you-meet-the-new-wingnuts-in-congress-20141205<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If You Think Michelle Bachmann Was Bad, Wait Until You Meet The New Wingnuts In Congress Republicans won big in this year&rsquo;s elections, but it&rsquo;s not because the candidates suddenly become more moderate. If anything, there was a bumper crop of candidates from the furthest fringes of the right. Unlike past electoral road kill like &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/if-you-think-michelle-bachmann-was-bad-wait-until-you-meet-the-new-wingnuts-in-congress\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">If You Think Michelle Bachmann Was Bad, Wait Until You Meet The New Wingnuts In Congress<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>If You Think Michelle Bachmann Was Bad, Wait Until You Meet The New Wingnuts In Congress - GAYFRIENDSCHAT.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/if-you-think-michelle-bachmann-was-bad-wait-until-you-meet-the-new-wingnuts-in-congress\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"If You Think Michelle Bachmann Was Bad, Wait Until You Meet The New Wingnuts In Congress - GAYFRIENDSCHAT.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"If You Think Michelle Bachmann Was Bad, Wait Until You Meet The New Wingnuts In Congress Republicans won big in this year&rsquo;s elections, but it&rsquo;s not because the candidates suddenly become more moderate. 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