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shenmue

(38,506 posts)
Mon Dec 15, 2014, 02:10 PM Dec 2014

Mississippi pastor asks marriage equality supporters if they would marry a horse

Story here

A Mississippi pastor, Ed James, made a unique statement against marriage equality by bringing a special guest to the Jackson courthouse. Uniquely ridiculous, that is.

From the article:

A Mississippi pastor brought a horse in a wedding dress to stand with him outside a federal courthouse on Friday in Jackson to protest a federal judge’s ruling, currently on hold, to overturn the socially conservative state’s ban on gay marriage.


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Mississippi pastor asks marriage equality supporters if they would marry a horse (Original Post) shenmue Dec 2014 OP
The degradation of our educational system is showing, elleng Dec 2014 #1
The degradation of some churches/ministers is showing... Frustratedlady Dec 2014 #2
They do, this is how some of these people get off, they get sexual enjoyment from it RKP5637 Dec 2014 #54
This "pastor" in Mississippi is calling for a "band" on gay marriage (2nd paragraph on left) Rowdyboy Dec 2014 #30
What type of band was he talking about? Jamaal510 Dec 2014 #41
I'm thinking something country/western but who knows exactly what occupies a mind that small Rowdyboy Dec 2014 #43
"Why not? Your wife married a horse's ass." WinkyDink Dec 2014 #3
... Gormy Cuss Dec 2014 #5
Thread over. Initech Dec 2014 #16
Winner, winner, chicken dinner. hifiguy Dec 2014 #19
Da-ymn! Raster Dec 2014 #29
*snort* derby378 Dec 2014 #37
Everything is always better with ponies. hifiguy Dec 2014 #57
Goooooooooooal! (nt) Posteritatis Dec 2014 #45
Yep, sure did! n/t RKP5637 Dec 2014 #55
OK, I'm totally stealing that one. Warpy Dec 2014 #58
I married an old goat. What's the difference? leftofcool Dec 2014 #4
Maggie-- Jackpine Radical Dec 2014 #38
I literally LOLLED! johnp3907 Dec 2014 #51
That poor horse Politicalboi Dec 2014 #6
The real question is, frogmarch Dec 2014 #7
... LittleBlue Dec 2014 #21
What a beautiful animal. Xyzse Dec 2014 #8
I would consider marrying a horse SamKnause Dec 2014 #9
I would consider voting for a horse Rex Dec 2014 #14
As would I. SamKnause Dec 2014 #17
At least when you elect a horse Jackpine Radical Dec 2014 #39
if they understood marriage as requiring consent, this wouldn't come up. but that's the problem. unblock Dec 2014 #10
So the horse can only be Ed or Francis the mule. L0oniX Dec 2014 #60
tired worn out straw man Takket Dec 2014 #11
using such a flawed analogy implies that the pastor knows that GreatGazoo Dec 2014 #36
Only Mr. Ed would marry a horse. Agnosticsherbet Dec 2014 #12
His name is pastor Ed, but no no he really means about other people marrying the horse. Rex Dec 2014 #13
I'd call that animal abuse... joeybee12 Dec 2014 #15
A horse is a horse of course and nobody can talk to a horse of course... Initech Dec 2014 #18
You can NOT make this shit up. hifiguy Dec 2014 #20
A comedian could get lazy with such material already there for them to use. Rex Dec 2014 #22
Holy shit, I think those are the human/animal hybrids hifiguy Dec 2014 #23
Here is something even scarier, I could walk outside and before long run into one of them. Rex Dec 2014 #24
So, did Mr. Ed say "I do"? KamaAina Dec 2014 #25
Of course not...All he said was "Neigh...." Rowdyboy Dec 2014 #31
A bad analogy... frogmarch Dec 2014 #26
Why are homophobes so obsessed with bestiality? Jamastiene Dec 2014 #27
Remember Neal Horsley, the reichwing mule-f*cker? hifiguy Dec 2014 #28
Yup, they seem to be afraid of someone else getting in on their bestiality action. Jamastiene Dec 2014 #33
They have trouble recognizing gay people as human, so they see the two as equivalent. (nt) Posteritatis Dec 2014 #44
You feel it more keenly than most Aerows Dec 2014 #50
Is the pastor wearing a saddle when he asks this? rock Dec 2014 #32
My sources tell me they're really just good friends. nt Buns_of_Fire Dec 2014 #34
A horse is incapable of consenting to marriage. MohRokTah Dec 2014 #35
If the pastor has... 3catwoman3 Dec 2014 #40
Is the good pastor setting up a dating service? Tierra_y_Libertad Dec 2014 #42
I live in Mississippi Aerows Dec 2014 #46
Fools like this guy capture media attention, but all the good people often go RKP5637 Dec 2014 #53
Beyond that Aerows Dec 2014 #47
Is it a rich horse? nt benz380 Dec 2014 #48
That horse is gonna be pretty pissed off pipi_k Dec 2014 #49
Yep, another example of "Idiocracy" with these damn fools. n/t RKP5637 Dec 2014 #52
repukes seem to be obsessed with marriage & sex with animals Skittles Dec 2014 #56
This message was self-deleted by its author L0oniX Dec 2014 #59

elleng

(130,861 posts)
1. The degradation of our educational system is showing,
Mon Dec 15, 2014, 02:14 PM
Dec 2014

more and more, with examples such as this. There is NO UNDERSTANDING of what is an ANALOGY!

Frustratedlady

(16,254 posts)
2. The degradation of some churches/ministers is showing...
Mon Dec 15, 2014, 02:18 PM
Dec 2014

I cannot believe how obsessed some ministers are with sex and politics. They must get their jollies out of fighting these battles.

I just hope the horse wasn't violated.

RKP5637

(67,102 posts)
54. They do, this is how some of these people get off, they get sexual enjoyment from it
Mon Dec 15, 2014, 06:39 PM
Dec 2014

either overtly or latent.

Rowdyboy

(22,057 posts)
30. This "pastor" in Mississippi is calling for a "band" on gay marriage (2nd paragraph on left)
Mon Dec 15, 2014, 03:51 PM
Dec 2014

Doubt he even knows what an analogy is...

Rowdyboy

(22,057 posts)
43. I'm thinking something country/western but who knows exactly what occupies a mind that small
Mon Dec 15, 2014, 06:16 PM
Dec 2014


or would that be kountree-wasturn?

Warpy

(111,237 posts)
58. OK, I'm totally stealing that one.
Mon Dec 15, 2014, 07:42 PM
Dec 2014


As an aside, why do these right wing oafs have such a problem with the concept of consent?

One imagines that none of them have ever bothered to obtain it.

Xyzse

(8,217 posts)
8. What a beautiful animal.
Mon Dec 15, 2014, 02:25 PM
Dec 2014

As a guy, I just could not live up to a Horse, so I must humbly decline.

--On Edit: Seriously though, only someone twisted and as much of a pervert as that would think up of something like that. I mean, only someone who has thought about doing a horse would suggest and ask it from someone else.

unblock

(52,188 posts)
10. if they understood marriage as requiring consent, this wouldn't come up. but that's the problem.
Mon Dec 15, 2014, 02:29 PM
Dec 2014

once upon a time, "traditional marriage" didn't require consent, at least not from the woman.

so their confusion is understandable, if telling.

Takket

(21,553 posts)
11. tired worn out straw man
Mon Dec 15, 2014, 02:31 PM
Dec 2014

A horse can't give consent. This argument has been rebuked for as long as this debate has been going on.

GreatGazoo

(3,937 posts)
36. using such a flawed analogy implies that the pastor knows that
Mon Dec 15, 2014, 04:41 PM
Dec 2014

same sex marriage is not bad enough even for his bigoted congregation. It is as if to say -- 'you're okay with any two consenting humans getting married? okay what about a horse and a human?'

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
13. His name is pastor Ed, but no no he really means about other people marrying the horse.
Mon Dec 15, 2014, 02:32 PM
Dec 2014

That horse. His horse. Ed went to Jared Barn. A horse is a horse, of course, unless that horse marries pastor Ed. You think pastor Ed will get Oats to play at his wedding - I hear Hall is in Australia getting married to a vibrating bed.

Ah I could go on forever, religious simpletons write their own comedy gold.

Interesting that Ed dressed the horse in a gown, I guess that he made just to prove a point? Here comes the bride...clip clop, clip clop...all dressed in white. What did pastor Ed say to his bride to be? "Why the long face?"

 

joeybee12

(56,177 posts)
15. I'd call that animal abuse...
Mon Dec 15, 2014, 02:36 PM
Dec 2014

Using a noble horse to make the point that the pastor is brain-dead.

Initech

(100,060 posts)
18. A horse is a horse of course and nobody can talk to a horse of course...
Mon Dec 15, 2014, 02:41 PM
Dec 2014

Unless that horse is the famous Mr.Ed!!!!

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
20. You can NOT make this shit up.
Mon Dec 15, 2014, 02:47 PM
Dec 2014

None of the great comic minds of the past could come up with things as purely nonsensical and demented as the average fundymentalpatient preacher. Not Voltaire, not Swift, not Groucho, not Chaplin, Bruce, Pryor or Carlin. It ain't possible, McGee.

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
22. A comedian could get lazy with such material already there for them to use.
Mon Dec 15, 2014, 02:58 PM
Dec 2014

"Pastor sure did spend lot of time hemming that dress for Daisy Lou."

"Yep"

"Yep"

"Sure nuff"

"You think judge will marry those two or it is really about the gays?"

"Oh it is all about the homosexuals, pastors loves Daisy but in a God fearing way."

"Yup"





 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
23. Holy shit, I think those are the human/animal hybrids
Mon Dec 15, 2014, 03:01 PM
Dec 2014

that worried Little Chimpy so much. Doctor Moreau clearly tried a porcine/human fusion there. Holy shit, that is a terrifying picture.

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
24. Here is something even scarier, I could walk outside and before long run into one of them.
Mon Dec 15, 2014, 03:10 PM
Dec 2014

Living in rural south Texas means never having to entertain yourself or be creative. Just walk outside and down to the monthly auction house. Someone will be there looking for just the right goat. Or shotgun. At a great bargain.

It is like a flea market gun-animal show mash up.

Jamastiene

(38,187 posts)
27. Why are homophobes so obsessed with bestiality?
Mon Dec 15, 2014, 03:39 PM
Dec 2014

Do they just marry human women for tradition and appearance and do bestiality on nights and weekends or what?

I think I can safely answer for most gay people on this one. No, we wouldn't marry a horse, because we are gay, which means we like other humans, not animals. Duh...

Jamastiene

(38,187 posts)
33. Yup, they seem to be afraid of someone else getting in on their bestiality action.
Mon Dec 15, 2014, 04:34 PM
Dec 2014

It's like some kind of Freudian slip type thing with them trotting out animals when people talk about marriage equality. They are so damn dumb, they never to bother looking up what gay means and they think someone else might want a piece of their farm animal action. It's sick, twisted, and deranged, but that's how they seem to think. I think we might be onto something here. They just want to make sure us gays don't want to get between them and their farm animals. Don't worry, we won't. I can't believe we have to explicitly say we won't try to get between them and their farm animals.

 

Aerows

(39,961 posts)
46. I live in Mississippi
Mon Dec 15, 2014, 06:21 PM
Dec 2014

So do more than a few DUers.

We aren't this stupid, nor are our neighbors in Alabama.

I hate the context living in this state seems to coat all of us that live here. There are as many LGBT people living here as there are in every other state. The fact that we sometimes fear for our lives of openly displaying it, but doing it anyway should tell you about our courage.

I'm a lesbian in a community that can at times be hostile to me. I still stand tall and brave.

What have *you* done in your community?

That's the fundamental question, here.

RKP5637

(67,102 posts)
53. Fools like this guy capture media attention, but all the good people often go
Mon Dec 15, 2014, 06:38 PM
Dec 2014

unseen, because the media often focuses on the outrageous. It's a shame idiots often paint such negative images of places and I know that feeling first hand with the fools in this state too.

 

Aerows

(39,961 posts)
47. Beyond that
Mon Dec 15, 2014, 06:25 PM
Dec 2014

I ask that DUers step up to the plate. We are a family, widespread, but we come together for one reason - we want a more equitable world.

pipi_k

(21,020 posts)
49. That horse is gonna be pretty pissed off
Mon Dec 15, 2014, 06:30 PM
Dec 2014

when she realizes her shoes don't match the flower colors in her bouquet.


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