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Rocknrule

(5,697 posts)
Fri Jun 20, 2014, 11:59 AM Jun 2014

Gay-Hating Holy Rollers Descend on D.C.

Source: Yahoo News

Steps from our nation’s Capitol, I was approached by Morton, a youthful-looking 68-year-old Virginia native with artificially blond hair and a fistful of flyers that read, “Gay Greed” and “Gay Sex Leads to Adult Diapers.”

“They’re not born with it, you know,” Morton offered, unprompted. “If anybody opens the back door unnaturally from outside, you end up having open-door syndrome. You can’t close the door. Anal sex harms [gays]. It reduces their life by, on average, 25 years—anal or oral sex.” Asked if such sex could harm women the same way it harms gay men, Morton thought for a moment. “Uh, it also has an impact—a strong impact. I’m not certain the exact statistics there.”

Welcome to the second annual March for Marriage, a friendly gathering of a few thousand concerned Americans, that is, according to its website, “poised to become an essential and indispensable vehicle for voicing the values of pro-marriage Americans in a way that cuts through the biased media narrative and demands hearing in the halls of power.”

With temperatures in the high 80s and skies on the verge of storming, a diverse choir of “traditional marriage” supporters sprawled across a lush field facing the Capitol to hear religious-right darlings preach.

Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/gay-hating-holy-rollers-descend-d-c-094500436--politics.html



It doesn't sound like the Fred Phelps Memorial March had much of a turnout, though.
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Gay-Hating Holy Rollers Descend on D.C. (Original Post) Rocknrule Jun 2014 OP
Are they abbreviating the March for Marriage as M4M? TlalocW Jun 2014 #1
The M4 is always a mess on weekends, especially out of London. ChairmanAgnostic Jun 2014 #35
So was David Vitter, in his sex diapers, having gay sex? valerief Jun 2014 #2
David Vitter? dougg Jun 2014 #12
It was the largest Westboro rally in history Rocknrule Jun 2014 #3
I wonder what holy roller hate improves their lives. They sure are forgetting a big portion Thinkingabout Jun 2014 #4
They follow the Paul part Aerows Jun 2014 #19
Wait, what? davidthegnome Jun 2014 #5
Because you could choke giving a BJ and die young! yellowcanine Jun 2014 #15
Townhall: "... hundreds have gathered...." mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2014 #6
most of that soundbite sounded like an endorsement for marriage equality rurallib Jun 2014 #11
Sounded more like Divorce is the issue he needs to address.... VanillaRhapsody Jun 2014 #29
whole "hundreds" even! VanillaRhapsody Jun 2014 #28
"Media Matters" looked at this too. Archae Jun 2014 #7
Me thinks thou* doth protest too much. Botany Jun 2014 #8
They live to, Love to Hate. SoapBox Jun 2014 #9
That was a long bus ride... Orsino Jun 2014 #10
“If anybody opens the back door unnaturally from outside, you end up having open-door syndrome." Harry Monroe Jun 2014 #13
“If anybody opens the back door unnaturally from outside, you end up having open-door syndrome." yellowcanine Jun 2014 #14
Many of them brought there own closets for after the shouting was done Alex P Notkeaton Jun 2014 #16
Did anyone ask "Morton" to define open-door syndrome? jmowreader Jun 2014 #17
Are they going to march against colonoscopy and lower GI exams next? Are enemas the new enemy? Coventina Jun 2014 #18
Laughing my ass off here........ Swede Atlanta Jun 2014 #20
The lifespan stats Prophet 451 Jun 2014 #24
... awoke_in_2003 Jun 2014 #21
Oral sex knocks off 25 years rickyhall Jun 2014 #22
these homophobes seem awfully obsessed with gay sex Skittles Jun 2014 #23
This is a march against human rights. olddad56 Jun 2014 #25
I would rather have tons of oral sex xfundy Jun 2014 #26
+1 sarcasmo Jun 2014 #32
They are still obsessed with anal sex I see.... VanillaRhapsody Jun 2014 #27
Rick Santorum's vicious jab on being GLBT: Being GLBT is bad for the economy blkmusclmachine Jun 2014 #30
Let's just call this "march for marriage" what it may as well be Rocknrule Jun 2014 #31
Santorum? doxydad Jun 2014 #33
so anal sex is like Lay's potato chips. or Pringles. NuttyFluffers Jun 2014 #34

TlalocW

(15,377 posts)
1. Are they abbreviating the March for Marriage as M4M?
Fri Jun 20, 2014, 12:07 PM
Jun 2014

I remember NOM had a thing they were calling 1 million men for marriage, and they did abbreviate it as MM4M, which I would think could be a personal ad abbreviation for a hook-up they wouldn't approve of.

TlalocW

dougg

(48 posts)
12. David Vitter?
Fri Jun 20, 2014, 01:51 PM
Jun 2014

You beat me to it.
Would love to see that sign following him on the campaign trail.
Would he deny a good Christian supporting him or would he run?

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
4. I wonder what holy roller hate improves their lives. They sure are forgetting a big portion
Fri Jun 20, 2014, 12:25 PM
Jun 2014

Of the bible which says to love one another. Just forget about the Jesus part.

 

Aerows

(39,961 posts)
19. They follow the Paul part
Fri Jun 20, 2014, 04:31 PM
Jun 2014

He never knew Jesus. He was misogynist of epic proportions and fostered a lot of the "hating" parts of the Bible. He supposedly "reformed in Christ" but he was a horrible person.

davidthegnome

(2,983 posts)
5. Wait, what?
Fri Jun 20, 2014, 12:36 PM
Jun 2014

"It reduces their life by, on average, 25 years—anal or oral sex"

Anal sex or oral sex reduce your life by 25 years? What the hell? Who does this idiot listen to? Where does he get his information from? I mean, I guess we should expect the stupid, but this much stupid is just... sort of... awe inspiring.

mahatmakanejeeves

(57,319 posts)
6. Townhall: "... hundreds have gathered...."
Fri Jun 20, 2014, 12:42 PM
Jun 2014

"I'm standing here in front of the United States Capitol in Washington, DC, where hundreds have gathered on the lawn to support the view of traditional marriage."

rurallib

(62,387 posts)
11. most of that soundbite sounded like an endorsement for marriage equality
Fri Jun 20, 2014, 01:16 PM
Jun 2014

Also, it looks like they not only support male and female marriage, but white male and female marriage.

 

VanillaRhapsody

(21,115 posts)
29. Sounded more like Divorce is the issue he needs to address....
Sat Jun 21, 2014, 12:07 AM
Jun 2014

especially since HE is getting one...

Hypocrite!

Archae

(46,301 posts)
7. "Media Matters" looked at this too.
Fri Jun 20, 2014, 12:42 PM
Jun 2014
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/06/19/inside-noms-second-failed-march-for-marriage/199807

Funny thing is, about half these losers wave around their flags and placards, give or listen to speeches and afterwards go home to their mistresses, or their 2nd, third or fourth wives.

Botany

(70,450 posts)
8. Me thinks thou* doth protest too much.
Fri Jun 20, 2014, 12:54 PM
Jun 2014

As a straight man my gay-dar and or spidey senses go off when somebody
who is opposed to gay rights spends so much time talking about the mechanics
of gay sex.

* Morton, a youthful-looking 68-year-old Virginia native with artificially blond hair




Look at the crowd!

Orsino

(37,428 posts)
10. That was a long bus ride...
Fri Jun 20, 2014, 01:06 PM
Jun 2014

...if everyone aboard was composing anal fanfic out of hate-radio sound bites.

Harry Monroe

(2,935 posts)
13. “If anybody opens the back door unnaturally from outside, you end up having open-door syndrome."
Fri Jun 20, 2014, 02:25 PM
Jun 2014

This guy really needs to just come out of the closet!!

Open door syndrome? Is that where you hang a sign on your ass declaring an "open house"? Man, oh man, these people spend WAY too much time thinking about things that don't concern or affect them in the least.

yellowcanine

(35,696 posts)
14. “If anybody opens the back door unnaturally from outside, you end up having open-door syndrome."
Fri Jun 20, 2014, 03:24 PM
Jun 2014

These people are nuts.

jmowreader

(50,533 posts)
17. Did anyone ask "Morton" to define open-door syndrome?
Fri Jun 20, 2014, 03:54 PM
Jun 2014

I really don't think that's in the Merck Manual.

Coventina

(27,064 posts)
18. Are they going to march against colonoscopy and lower GI exams next? Are enemas the new enemy?
Fri Jun 20, 2014, 04:04 PM
Jun 2014

These people really have anal fixations.

I wonder what Freud would say........

 

Swede Atlanta

(3,596 posts)
20. Laughing my ass off here........
Fri Jun 20, 2014, 04:43 PM
Jun 2014

"open door syndrome"? Really? I checked Webmd and several other sites to see if I could educate myself on this and couldn't find it anywhere. It appears Mr. Morton has discovered a new syndrome. I do hope his paper on this is in the next edition of the New England Journal of Medicine. It will be a fascinating read.

What a dumb-ass (no pun intended). First of all he assumes that the majority of sex between men is anal. In all my years as a gay man I have not found that to be true. But even if it was for this to cause "back door" syndrome there would have to be a prolonged and repetitive weakening of the anal sphincter before it would cause the problems he describes. I know many gay couples who regularly engage in anal sex and neither one of them is wearing diapers.

Secondly he says gay sex reduces the average life span of a gay person by 25 years as a result of anal and oral sex. I would like to see the statistics of this. There certainly was a period of time in which thousands of gay men were dying of HIV and AIDS. That was being spread through both anal and oral sex as well as IV drug usage. That definitely had an effect on the average life span of gay men at the time.

While I don't have the statistics I would be surprised if there was any appreciable difference between the life spans of gay men and the general population. If anything many gay men are living healthier lifestyles because they like to keep themselves fit and at least to some degree more dispensable income enables them to make healthier eating choices.

But looking at the photo of him and his seeming fixation on the mechanics of gay sex suggests he is no stranger to gay sex.

Prophet 451

(9,796 posts)
24. The lifespan stats
Fri Jun 20, 2014, 08:57 PM
Jun 2014

I have a long-standing interest in sex as a scientific matter (yes, go ahead, I've heard them all) and from what I can remember of the stats, the life expectancy of gays and straights is pretty much the same once you exclude suicide victims. Gay men are slightly more likely to die from violence but slightly less likely to die from heart disease so it all evens out in the end. That's if you exclude suicide victims. While society is gradually getting better, suicide among gay people (especially gay youth) is still horrifyingly high.

 

awoke_in_2003

(34,582 posts)
21. ...
Fri Jun 20, 2014, 05:55 PM
Jun 2014

"If anybody opens the back door unnaturally from outside, you end up having open-door syndrome. You can’t close the door. "

An ex-girlfriend always used that excuse Seriously, these are some fucked up people.

rickyhall

(4,889 posts)
22. Oral sex knocks off 25 years
Fri Jun 20, 2014, 06:39 PM
Jun 2014

Damn, I'm nearly 60 so should have died years ago. I'm doing better I thought.

More crazy people.

 

VanillaRhapsody

(21,115 posts)
27. They are still obsessed with anal sex I see....
Sat Jun 21, 2014, 12:02 AM
Jun 2014

funny how the "straight" Church going types do that....

doxydad

(1,363 posts)
33. Santorum?
Sat Jun 21, 2014, 02:48 PM
Jun 2014
Gee, I should remember that name from somewhere... OH HELL YES, Old Frothy!! I thought his 15 minutes of hate sperwing bigotry and homophobic commenting was over! He's an embarrassment for anybody who believes in Christ. What a hypocritical ass bag.
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