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Define ‘Hate Group’

Posted on | March 16, 2011 | 16 Comments

Also, define “secretly funneled,” because I’m having a little trouble with Josh Dorner’s Think Progress headline:

Newt Gingrich Secretly Funneled $350,000
To Anti-Gay Hate Groups Last Year

Except, of course, that there wasn’t anything “secret” about the “funneling”: It was duly reported as required by law and, as Think Progress itself notes, Gingrich was outspoken in his support of the effort “to oust three of the nine Iowa Supreme Court justices” who had voted to mandate same-sex marriage in that state.

Is it “hate” to oppose same-sex marriage?

Then welcome to the Hater Majority, Newt!

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Category: Election 2012, Gays, Iowa, Newt Gingrich

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  • Joe

    Newt’s problem is not that, it is his supporting Dede Scozzafava that is the problem. Duh.

    As far as gay marriage, I would vote for it, but Obama said he supports civil unions. Civil unions? Does that make Barack Obama a hater?

  • Anamika

    Then welcome to the Hater Majority, Newt!

    Are you kidding me? You link to a 2006 poll?

    Here’s the latest Pew survey:

    Support for Gay Marriage Nearly Matches Opposition

    Public support for gay marriage continues to edge upward.

    The trend over the recent years is pretty stark. Come 2012, the signs are ominous. Newt will no longer be in the “Hater Majority”.

  • http://thatmrgguy.wordpress.com/ Mike

    I have a Gay Daughter. And she asked her “Friend” to marry her. But according to Virginia Law, they can’t and I’m extremely happy about that. She knows that I don’t condone her lifestyle choice, but She’s still my daughter and I love her as much as my other kids and Grandkids . I’ve always remembered something my Dad told me when I did something incredibly stupid once and that was…You’ll always be my Son and I’ll always love you no matter what.

  • Anamika

    Obama also beleives it is upto the states to decide whether they call it a “marriage” or a “civil union”. Unlike Newt, Obama was neutral about Iowa matters.

  • Anamika

    she asked her “Friend” to marry her. But according to Virginia Law, they can’t and I’m extremely happy about that.

    When you truly love a person, your happiness should lie in that person’s happiness.

    Sorry, you fail.

  • http://www.facebook.com/Stan25 Stan Brewer

    Was that report generated by the Southern Poverty Law Center, by chance? Seems to me that is the kind of crap that they would release. They seem hellbent on smearing every Republican as hate mongers. As we all know this is not true. Most of the hate that I have seen in the last three months has come from the left. Unions, Media etc

  • Joe

    Anamika, there is a big difference between legislatures passing gay marriage and the judiciary imposing it. The former is the correct way to do it, the later is judical law making (the wrong way). And no, 19th century state and federal equal protection clauses were not that “gay friendly.” Sorry.

    But as for Newt, he lost me with Dede. So I guess we are in agreement that Newt is a hater: of principled conservatives like Doug Hoffman.

  • Malclave

    According to your link, Newt is just a member of the “Hater Plurality”.

  • Malclave

    They seem hellbent on smearing every Republican as hate mongers.

    And that, of course, is the definition of “Hate Group” that the post asks for.

    They don’t care about the actual issue… they only care about how their spin can help the Democrats.

  • http://ak4mc.us/2c/2011/ McGehee

    Maybe as a father he understands her happiness better than you do.

    Just a thought.

  • http://thatmrgguy.wordpress.com/ Mike

    Why…because I don’t agree with her choice? My Dad didn’t agree with several things I did or was about, but he didn’t love me any less. I don’t think I failed at all.

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  • Anonymous

    What’s truly amusing is that when you actually look at the SPLC’s “Hate Map” numbers and do the math, “Black Separatists” outnumber every other category of SPLC “hate group.”

    http://wp.me/pCLYZ-8S

    More than two thirds of those groups are chapters of the Nation of Islam, i.e., Muslims.

    One wonders when we’ll see THOSE stats from SPLC making headlines?

  • Anamika

    Thanks for catching that! That’s even better.

  • Anamika

    Apologies Mike. I was off put by your choice of words, that you were “extremely happy” about the gay marriage ban. I can fully understand you being “extremely unhappy” at your daughther’s choice (given the law permitted) though, and still be an unquestionable loving father.

    I agree that gays “choosing” to get married (if the law permits in their state) is a “lifestyle choice”, but i don’t agree with the backward notion that “being gay” in itself is a lifestyle choice.

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