It stinks when the Klan supports your amendment

STATE Rep. Warren Chisum apparently was surprised when the Ku Klux Klan announced plans to hold a pre-election rally in Austin in support of his constitutional amendment against same-sex marriage.

He shouldn't have been, because flies are attracted to garbage wherever they may find it.

Chisum, a Republican from Pampa, isn't a cowardly cross-burner who takes delight in bashing African-Americans and other racial and ethnic minorities. But his sponsorship of Proposition 2 on the Nov. 8 statewide ballot offers the KKK another opportunity to do what it does best — promote prejudice and hatred, albeit of a different brand than produced the racial lynchings of not so many years ago.

I am not equating the debate over whether homosexual couples should be allowed to marry to the long, often bloody civil rights struggle of blacks and Hispanics in America.

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/editorial/outlook/3424597

:)

It seems to me that you have basically lost the moral value of your vote when the KKK shows up in support of you. It may not have been his plan for them to come help him, although I agree he should have seen it coming, but still you lose if the KKK has to help you win. At least, that's how it should work in modern times...

:hi:

:toast:

where dragging or lynching black people isn't ancient history.

:wtf: