The AFA is back on the warpath. Sick bastards, all.

From that wonderful christian group of thugs:

"A liberal activist judge has struck down a constitutional amendment in Georgia which made homosexual marriage illegal! She felt that she knew better than the voters how they should vote and threw out their ballots.

The constitutional amendment, passed overwhelmingly by 76% of the voters in Georgia, is now null and void.

The homosexuals are determined to win this battle. They know they will never win if the people have an opportunity to vote. So they are turning to liberal activist judges to force their will on the people. They intend to force homosexual marriage down the throats of Americans. They feel our children must be indoctrinated beginning in kindergarten that homosexuality is normal behavior.

On June 6 the U.S. Senate will vote on the Marriage Protection Amendment (MPA) which defines marriage as being only between one man and one woman. Because of a power grab by activist judges like the one in Georgia, the MPA is the only way that the sacred institution of marriage will remain between one man and one woman. "


This strikes me as being in line with the warnings given to House and Senate GOPers. either you tack to the ultra-right, or we will abandon you. I am curious how many people will actually call their reps. And I wonder if mary Cheney will be one of the callers.

how dare that judge, you know, do their job?! Shame on them! Shame!

They're a small minority of the U.S. population, but they manage to push federal and state governments around. WTF?

Yes they are not in the majority, among americans at large. But they always vote. In a country with such a low voter turnout as we have, to be 30% of the population and be the group that never stays home translates into a certain amount of political power.

The religious right also will build coalitions with people who are not necessarily on their side on all issues to get their way on one. They've made a lot of inroads with catholic voters on abortion, they are willing to team up with feminists against porn, and, as far as gay marriage goes, a good number of people who think it's wrong but are not necessarily religious about it.

it is that simple, the judge said nothing about the lay itself, she said the WAY the law was inacted was not lawfull..

I spent the weekend at my gay brother's in ATL. His partner is a lawyer and big-time gay rights activist there. They anticipated just this sort of reaction from the religiously insane factions.

As anticipated, it is the anti-freedom, conservative/fundy Republicans who are screaming about so-called "liberal activist judges" voiding Georgia's patently illegal gay marriage ban. That's a tried-and-not-so-true right-wing chestnut that doesn't hold water in any court of democracy. Activist judges? I think not.

This judge (who happens to be an African-American woman) did what she obviously had to do .. conformed to the rule of law in Georgia. Any other judge ruling any other way would have been guilty of dereliction of duty. In fact, the vehemence of the religious wing-nuts' screed seems to me to be exacerbated by the race and gender of the judge.

Why do these fundy GOPers hate freedom? Why do they hate everything, including the teachings of their Christ? They need to get their own house in order because, unbeknownst to them, their Christ is standing on their lawn looking in their window .. and Christ is pissed.

liberal activist judge ... they are turning to liberal activist judges to force their will on the people ... force homosexual marriage down the throats of Americans ... our children must be indoctrinated ...

These people are just dripping with hate. I can't figure out why they have such a big following. :shrug:

gangs of kids picking on those who were "different" to make themselves feel better. the AFA shows the same amount of maturity.

America's founding fathers carefully developed three branches of equal government to serve as checks and balances against each other. Majority-rule is NOT the law of the land. The Constitution is the supreme law of the land. They really should read it someday!

The American Family Association, Focus on the Family, there are definitely others. They're all obsessed with what gay people do in their bedrooms, and with keeping interesting programming off the public airwaves.

But if they're supposedly so pro-family, why don't they spend even a bit of their time lobbying on issues families really care about?

*fair wages
*accessible health care
*adequate funding for public education
*lower energy prices
*clean air and water
*safe, nutritious food

I paraphrase Jon Stewart: Any organization with "family" in the name is not a happy group of people.

I wish the pro-republinazi media would do its job & ask those idiots why they aren't campaigning for those very things you list. Also, the media could ask them if there isn't something they'd like to share, since they seem to be so concerned about what gay people do in their bedrooms.... :evilgrin: