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Posted on Tue Jun 06, 2006 at 06:09:01 PM EST
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Republican Senator James Inhofe (Okla.) at today's gay marriage debate in the Senate (sorry for the caps, that's how I received it from The Senate Majority:

{14:24:36} (MR. INHOFE) (NOT AN OFFICIAL TRANSCRIPT }AS YOU SEE HERE, AND I THINK THIS IS MAYBE THE MOST IMPORTANT PROP WE'LL HAVE DURING THE ENTIRE DEBATE, MY WIFE AND I HAVE BEEN MARRIED 47 YEARS. WE HAVE 20 KIDS AND GRANDKIDS. I'M REALLY PROUD TO SAY THAT IN THE RECORDED HISTORY OF OUR FAMILY, WE'VE NEVER HAD A DIVORCE OR ANY KIND OF A HOMOSEXUAL RELATIONSHIP.

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    Quote From Gay Marriage Debate | 38 comments (38 topical)
    Re: Quote From Gay Marriage Debate (none / 0) (#1)
    by Johnny on Wed Jun 07, 2006 at 03:39:04 AM EST
    I'M REALLY PROUD TO SAY THAT IN THE RECORDED HISTORY OF OUR FAMILY, WE'VE NEVER HAD A DIVORCE OR ANY KIND OF A HOMOSEXUAL RELATIONSHIP.
    Oooooooooooooooooooooooh.... But also, without gay marriages, we have engaged in nuclear war, we have practiced the enslavement of human beings, we have passed and endorsed laws that relegate persons os a different color to "the back of the bus", we have recorded unbelievably high suicide rates among teenagers, phenomenal drug and alcohol addiction, hell, women couldn't even vote in national elections less than a hundred years ago! The point? All of those events have exactly as much to blame on lack of gay amrriages as this nitwit wrongwingers "proud" history. Whatta schmuck, I can't believe people vote for these goons. Takes a certain type of person I guess.

    Re: Quote From Gay Marriage Debate (none / 0) (#2)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Wed Jun 07, 2006 at 04:02:59 AM EST
    IN THE RECORDED HISTORY OF OUR FAMILY, WE'VE NEVER HAD A DIVORCE OR ANY KIND OF A HOMOSEXUAL RELATIONSHIP.
    This is too easy! He's telling us that whenever there is an incestuous homosexual relationship in his family, they're careful not to record it!

    Re: Quote From Gay Marriage Debate (none / 0) (#3)
    by cpinva on Wed Jun 07, 2006 at 04:21:53 AM EST
    sen. inhofe is widely regarded as, if not the stupidest member of congress, right up there in the top branches of that tree. however, and this is a big however, people in his district voted for him, presumably knowing exactly what they were getting. as much of an embarrassment as he may be, the bigger embarrassment is that oklahomans elected him. consider what that says about them.

    Re: Quote From Gay Marriage Debate (none / 0) (#4)
    by MikeDitto on Wed Jun 07, 2006 at 06:21:07 AM EST
    Actually, as dumb goes, no one surpasses Wayne Allard. Perfectly nice man, but dumb as a box of rocks. That's why he's such a tool, and why he's been rated as one of the worst in the Senate. A lobbyist from an environmental group once imparted a conversation that she had with then state Senator Allard where she couldn't get him to understand why mine tailings would end up downstream. It wasn't out of some sort of Republican denial, but just that he was too dense to understand that solids dissolve in water. Even using salt in the kitchen as an example didn't work, because Allard had apparently never cooked anything. The guy is dense. His aide finally said, "don't worry Wayne, I'll explain it later," and put an end to the conversation.

    Re: Quote From Gay Marriage Debate (none / 0) (#5)
    by squeaky on Wed Jun 07, 2006 at 07:04:51 AM EST
    Time for an investigative journalist to get the skinny on him and his family when they are off stage and the cameras are not running. He also will not allow uncloseted gays to work for him. Anyone who treats gays as if they are the plague must have something that they are afraid of inside themselves.

    Re: Quote From Gay Marriage Debate (none / 0) (#6)
    by Punchy on Wed Jun 07, 2006 at 07:09:08 AM EST
    the bigger embarrassment is that oklahomans elected him. consider what that says about them. The really scary thing is...is that this probably flies quite well in OK. I'm guessing a vast majority of Okians are nodding their head as they read that, thinking "excellent....nice..." Bigots of the South...

    Re: Quote From Gay Marriage Debate (none / 0) (#7)
    by kdog on Wed Jun 07, 2006 at 07:15:11 AM EST
    I'M REALLY PROUD TO SAY THAT IN THE RECORDED HISTORY OF OUR FAMILY, WE'VE NEVER HAD A DIVORCE OR ANY KIND OF A HOMOSEXUAL RELATIONSHIP
    This has to be untrue, or a serious statistical miracle. Or simple denial...yaeh that's it. Either that or this clown has the weirdest family tree in the country. Stepford to the max.

    Re: Quote From Gay Marriage Debate (none / 0) (#8)
    by Al on Wed Jun 07, 2006 at 08:26:57 AM EST
    Whereas of course in my family, uncle Tom and uncle Jerry were famously gay back in the early 1900's, as the pictures of them holding hands attest. And cousin Ethel was divorced three times; I have all her divorce certificates. Because all families keep careful records of these things, don't they?

    Re: Quote From Gay Marriage Debate (none / 0) (#9)
    by ntnelson on Wed Jun 07, 2006 at 08:50:13 AM EST
    No discussion of the stupidest senators is complete without including Mr. Mark Dayton!

    Re: Quote From Gay Marriage Debate (none / 0) (#10)
    by Jlvngstn on Wed Jun 07, 2006 at 09:26:25 AM EST
    I am proud that I have never been divorced and I am also proud of my gay brother who has had the same partner for 20+ years. My straight siblings are another matter.

    Re: Quote From Gay Marriage Debate (none / 0) (#11)
    by Peaches on Wed Jun 07, 2006 at 09:35:39 AM EST
    No discussion of the stupidest senators is complete without including Mr. Mark Dayton!
    Mark Dayton might lack many skills necessary to be an effective senator, but he is not stupid. The fact that he is not a great senator is a testament to his principles and integrity and not to his lack of intellect.

    Re: Quote From Gay Marriage Debate (none / 0) (#12)
    by kdog on Wed Jun 07, 2006 at 10:44:46 AM EST
    I'm proud I don't judge people's character by the contents of their love life.

    Re: Quote From Gay Marriage Debate (none / 0) (#13)
    by glanton on Wed Jun 07, 2006 at 11:00:29 AM EST
    Two years ago I was frustrated that this "issue" dominated the electoral limelight. This time around, I feel very differently. Good, let these Senators keep talking, let the President keep talking, let the pundits keep talking about "these here homosexuals." The very ugliest side of our Uhmerrikah is on display, let us lap it up like dogs.

    Re: Quote From Gay Marriage Debate (none / 0) (#14)
    by squeaky on Wed Jun 07, 2006 at 11:13:23 AM EST
    kdog-
    I'm proud I don't judge people's character by the contents of their love life
    With all due respect to your principaled stand I imagine that you do draw a line somewhere. For instance do you remember the the sadomasochistic "death mask murder" case, involving the 57th Street art dealer Andrew Crispo? He was never convicted but most in the NY Art World thought him guity.

    Re: Quote From Gay Marriage Debate (none / 0) (#15)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Wed Jun 07, 2006 at 11:44:47 AM EST
    20 kids? Poor Mrs. Inhofe...although i suspect she didn't have much say in the matter once James came home to prove yet again what a virile cocksman he was, lest anyone forget. I wonder what his voting record on public assistance for single mothers looks like?

    Re: Quote From Gay Marriage Debate (none / 0) (#16)
    by Sailor on Wed Jun 07, 2006 at 11:45:52 AM EST
    Hyde's statement was peculiar, but this one takes the cake:
    Several religious leaders joined Allard to argue that the [Gay Marriage] ban is needed to counteract an array of social ills, from rising divorce rates to out-of-wedlock births.
    remedial sex ed anyone?

    Re: Quote From Gay Marriage Debate (none / 0) (#17)
    by roger on Wed Jun 07, 2006 at 11:50:28 AM EST
    Sailor, Married gays are having Out of wedlock children? Who knew?

    Re: Quote From Gay Marriage Debate (none / 0) (#18)
    by squeaky on Wed Jun 07, 2006 at 11:55:00 AM EST
    More like this: If gays are allowed to marry the divorce rate will double. We will have totally lost the WOD. Egg on our face.

    Re: Quote From Gay Marriage Debate (none / 0) (#19)
    by kdog on Wed Jun 07, 2006 at 12:10:46 PM EST
    Squeaky, I do draw the line...at murder, rape, or assault. Sorry, I don't get your point.

    Re: Quote From Gay Marriage Debate (none / 0) (#20)
    by squeaky on Wed Jun 07, 2006 at 12:29:45 PM EST
    kdog- I imagined that your position was that you do
    I do draw the line...at murder, rape, or assault.
    as would all those who know you from your posts would assume that to be true. So sorry to perhaps unnecessarily nitpic, but your generous statement about not judging character by others love life left open a question about those whose love life is defined by abusing others to various extremes.

    Re: Quote From Gay Marriage Debate (none / 0) (#21)
    by kdog on Wed Jun 07, 2006 at 12:44:18 PM EST
    No problemo squeaky...I got ya now. I guess you could say my personal definition of "love life" does not contain abuse of any kind....hence the "love" portion.

    Re: Quote From Gay Marriage Debate (none / 0) (#22)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Wed Jun 07, 2006 at 04:24:19 PM EST
    Pretty much a rule of Washington: when a Congressman makes that kind of statement, there's a huge closet in his house.

    Re: Quote From Gay Marriage Debate (none / 0) (#23)
    by roy on Wed Jun 07, 2006 at 04:28:00 PM EST
    There's a joke to be made here about skeletons in the closet, but I can't quite string it together.

    Re: Quote From Gay Marriage Debate (none / 0) (#24)
    by Sailor on Wed Jun 07, 2006 at 04:58:39 PM EST
    roy, I'll save you the trouble: I'm surprised that these folks would call attention to fu#$%^! a$$holes, seeing as they are the epitome.

    Re: Quote From Gay Marriage Debate (none / 0) (#25)
    by Aaron on Wed Jun 07, 2006 at 06:25:09 PM EST
    These types of pious statements are almost without exception evidence that some of the most deviant psychosexual behavior known to mankind is going on behind closed doors in such families. Sure they've had no divorces, and no openly gay members in their family. But all you have to do is look closely at the domestic situations in these families to understand the dynamics. Of course some might say it's just a coincidence that these are the same people who keep a small flock of unusually attractive immaculately groomed sheep grazing nervously in their backyard. But there's nothing wrong with being an animal lover *wink wink*. As we all know sheep tell no tales, for somehow they seem to know that if they Baah' to often or too loud they'll wind up lamb chops. These are the same people whose children appear so well-behaved and grown up for their age. But this phenomena is quite easily duplicated, all it requires are regular late-night visits from loving fathers, while wives wear blinders and earplugs to bed so that they may sleep blissfully untroubled by those annoying screams and pleas, "help me mommy, it hurts," emanating from their young children's rooms. Since these women usually grew up in similar households, they often don't have much of a problem sacrificing their offspring on the altar of incest. After all they paid their dues when they were children, why should their kids get a pass from the hard realities of life? Why shouldn't their young daughters learn to repress their memories of childhood and be totally unable trust or form lasting emotional relationships with members of the opposite sex. Hey, that's just the price you pay for moral piety in America Much better that they learn to see man as the enemy early in life, so they need not be disillusioned down the road when they meet and marry a man who's just like dear old dad. And when their daughters wind up getting pregnant at age 11, these are the same parents who will send their kid off to boarding school in Switzerland for a year to be sequestered from the public eye while they give birth in secret and receive extensive training in how to convince the relatives that their daughter is really their sister. It's easy to spot these young women, they're the ones that seem to have it all together, they have perfect manners, are hyper fastidious about their appearance and body, and never lose control of their emotions in public. The perfect little women, coming from perfect homes all across America.

    Re: Quote From Gay Marriage Debate (none / 0) (#26)
    by jondee on Wed Jun 07, 2006 at 07:35:09 PM EST
    Theres a pink one and a green one and a blue one and a yellow one - and they're all made out of ticky-tacky and they all turn out just the same.

    Re: Quote From Gay Marriage Debate (none / 0) (#27)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Thu Jun 08, 2006 at 12:13:24 AM EST
    Why is it that most of the comments on this post are more hateful than anything James Inhofe said. jee wiz.

    Re: Quote From Gay Marriage Debate (none / 0) (#28)
    by jondee on Thu Jun 08, 2006 at 12:24:34 AM EST
    Because we all hate America, wholesome old fashioned values, the flag, and incestuous families that wont own up to it.

    Re: Quote From Gay Marriage Debate (none / 0) (#29)
    by Jlvngstn on Thu Jun 08, 2006 at 07:46:45 AM EST
    I have no issue with him saying he has not had a divorce, that is something to be proud of.

    Re: Quote From Gay Marriage Debate (none / 0) (#30)
    by Jlvngstn on Thu Jun 08, 2006 at 07:49:24 AM EST
    I say that as a married man of a divorced woman with a child. I think my wife and her first husband gave up on the marriage, not that I am not happy about it because I found someone that brings me bliss....

    Re: Quote From Gay Marriage Debate (none / 0) (#31)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Thu Jun 08, 2006 at 07:53:10 AM EST
    would some of you have me believe that inhofe should be dissappointed that he didn't have any divorces or gay children to speak of??

    Re: Quote From Gay Marriage Debate (none / 0) (#32)
    by Jlvngstn on Thu Jun 08, 2006 at 09:08:50 AM EST
    hannity, I would surely find it offensive if he was disappointed in a gay family member. As for divorce, I think it is something to be proud of.

    Re: Quote From Gay Marriage Debate (none / 0) (#33)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Thu Jun 08, 2006 at 09:13:29 AM EST
    Read my post - I asked if posters on this site are disappointed that he has no gay children or divorce to speak of, not if he would be disapointed in a gay child. It seems like some on this site are upset he hasn't had a divorce or a gay child. Therefore, he must be a homophobe Christian right-winger, right?

    Re: Quote From Gay Marriage Debate (none / 0) (#34)
    by jondee on Thu Jun 08, 2006 at 09:35:03 AM EST
    The only reason that I could see that anyone would be disappointed is that no gay children means that the gene pool is being perpetuated. Hopefully the lying demogogue thing is learned behavior though.

    Re: Quote From Gay Marriage Debate (none / 0) (#35)
    by Sailor on Thu Jun 08, 2006 at 09:47:59 AM EST
    If he had said he was proud he had no black people in his family what would you think of him?

    Re: Quote From Gay Marriage Debate (none / 0) (#36)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Thu Jun 08, 2006 at 11:21:08 AM EST
    I would think, "Black people can have children".

    Re: Quote From Gay Marriage Debate (none / 0) (#37)
    by Jlvngstn on Thu Jun 08, 2006 at 12:10:29 PM EST
    hannity - You asked if we were disappointed he did not have any, however he made the statement he was proud he did not have any. So the question is not whether we are disappointed if he has any, rather would he be ashamed if he did? Let's go on record hannity, is homosexuality a deviancy, or is it a matter of genetics?

    Re: Quote From Gay Marriage Debate (none / 0) (#38)
    by Sailor on Thu Jun 08, 2006 at 05:27:15 PM EST
    I would think, "Black people can have children".
    Thank you for proving my point.

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