Musgrave (R - PU): Gay Marriage Most Important Issue We Face Today

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Musgrave exposes GOP's warped agenda: Gay marriage, not Iraq or terror, is most important issue
by Joe in DC - 9/28/2006 09:53:00 AM

Wonder why we're not safer? Marilyn Musgrave explained why we're not winning the war on terror and why Iraq is a quagmire. The Republicans are too obsessed with issues like gay marriage to focus on real problems.

Think Progress has the video of Musgrave speaking to the theocrats:
Rep. Marilyn Musgrave (R-CO), the lead sponsor of the constitutional ban on gay marriage in the House, spoke this weekend at the Family Research Council's "Values Voter Summit." (Other virulently anti-gay speakers were featured at the event.)


Most Americans think the future is grim if we don't solve the Iraq crisis and win in the war on terror. But not the people who run Congress. Bashing gays is their top issue. Explains so much.

Iraqis hate us. The Iraq war is a disaster. It's actually made us less safe. But the theocrats who run the GOP, like Musgrave, are worried about gays.

Wonder if the theocrats talked about the other top GOP priority: torture. Was there a session on "How would Jesus torture?" Maybe Bush heard directly from his higher power on that one.

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http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/27/musgrave-gay/

Musgrave: Gay Marriage ‘Is The Most Important Issue That We Face Today’

Rep. Marilyn Musgrave (R-CO), the lead sponsor of the constitutional ban on gay marriage in the House, spoke this weekend at the Family Research Council’s “Values Voter Summit.” (Other virulently anti-gay speakers were featured at the event.)

Full transcript:

As Maggie and I were talking before we came on, I wasn’t attacked on marriage, because the people in Colorado believe that marriage should be defined as a union between a man and a woman. In fact, it’s on the ballot this year for a constitutional change.

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But, you know, when I was in the last weeks of my last campaign, you know what I was thinking? Where’s our side? What are they doing? And I believe that when you’re in a cultural war like this, you have to respond with equal and hopefully greater force if you want to win this battle. But this battle is the most important issue that we face today, and what an honor it has been to serve in the United States Congress and carry the Marriage Amendment.

Last time, we were 54 votes short in this legislative session. That’s 9 votes more than we had last year. But there is much work to be done. So I hope that you will realize how high the stakes are. The future is grim unless we do what we need to do to win this battle. We need to elect people to positions of authority in the states and in the United States Congress, and we need to fight the good fight for our children and our grandchildren. Thank you very much.

And what an idiot.