Robterson, sick to his stomach that the NFL wants naughty people to have rights

[Keith&Co.]

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/pat-robertson-sick-my-stomach-nfl-backs-lgbt-rights

Pat Robertson once again expressed outrage over the NFL’s strong opposition to an anti-LGBT bill in Georgia today, telling “700 Club” viewers that the league’s stance has made him “sick at my stomach.”

“These guys are supposed to be tough warriors in the NFL,” Robertson said. “Why are they suddenly going out to boycott a state because of some alleged offense against homosexual marriage? These NFL players are not going to get same-sex marriage, you wouldn’t think. What is going on with those people?”

What has this once-great nation come to that Christains like Pat no longer have the right to speak out against gays. No longer can Pat go on TV every single motherfucking day and go on and on at length to tell the world how evil (and sissified, unlike NFL players) gays and lesbians are, and how stupid the he-men in the NFL are to support them.

 

[Underseer]

Of course he is sick to his stomach that there are people in this world that want to stop abusing and persecuting the GLBT community. He is a Christian. If there is one thing that makes Christians violently ill, it is the thought that someone, somewhere, is trying to make the world less evil.

Sigh.

Look, I know there are exceptions to this. I know that there are genuinely good and decent moderate Christians who are nothing like Pat Robertson on this issue. I just wish they weren't such a tiny, ineffectual, and silent minority.

 

[Keith&Co.]

I know that there are genuinely good and decent moderate Christians who are nothing like Pat Robertson on this issue. I just wish they weren't such a tiny, ineffectual, and silent minority.

One could wish it was Christains that put the brakes on this proposal, rather than, say, the NFL.

 

[RavenSky]

I guess we are even then because Robertson makes me sick to my stomach

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Of course he is sick to his stomach that there are people in this world that want to stop abusing and persecuting the GLBT community. He is a Christian. If there is one thing that makes Christians violently ill, it is the thought that someone, somewhere, is trying to make the world less evil.

Sigh.

Look, I know there are exceptions to this. I know that there are genuinely good and decent moderate Christians who are nothing like Pat Robertson on this issue. I just wish they weren't such a tiny, ineffectual, and silent minority.

If they were such a minority, the NFL wouldn't sell out so much.

 

[Underseer]

Of course he is sick to his stomach that there are people in this world that want to stop abusing and persecuting the GLBT community. He is a Christian. If there is one thing that makes Christians violently ill, it is the thought that someone, somewhere, is trying to make the world less evil.

Sigh.

Look, I know there are exceptions to this. I know that there are genuinely good and decent moderate Christians who are nothing like Pat Robertson on this issue. I just wish they weren't such a tiny, ineffectual, and silent minority.

If they were such a minority, the NFL wouldn't sell out so much.

If that were true, why do these laws keep getting passed?

 

[sdelsolray]

Pat Robertson is myopic, senile and lazy. That, and he has always been, and remains, human sewage. Practically anything he says is weapons-grade nonsense.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

If they were such a minority, the NFL wouldn't sell out so much.

If that were true, why do these laws keep getting passed?

Inertial indifference of the common non-voter.

 

[Underseer]

If that were true, why do these laws keep getting passed?

Inertial indifference of the common non-voter.

Voter turnout rates are still above 50%.

 

[bilby]

Inertial indifference of the common non-voter.

Voter turnout rates are still above 50%.

Is that supposed to imply that the will of the voters and the will of the people are synonymous? Because it really truly doesn't.

The people who don't turn out to vote are the moderates; extremists and enthusiasts always turn out to vote; and they also are massively over-represented in the pools of candidates. A guy who truly believes that 9/11 was an inside job done by the lizard people is FAR more likely than average to go to the effort and trouble of getting himself elected in order to push his anti-lizard person agenda than is a sane person to stand up for election in order to prevent the Tinfoil Hat Party from gaining power.

The only way to prevent the loons from being massively over-represented in a representative democracy is to make both candidacy and voting mandatory. As Douglas Adams pointed out, the one characteristic that makes a person most obviously unsuitable for the presidency is a desire to become president.

I would like to see candidates for office at every level selected ONLY by random lottery of eligible voters; and to see voting made compulsory for all eligible citizens. Make the candidate pool fairly large, and use a voting system such as IRV or STV, where every voter's choices contribute to the selection of the final winner even if their first choice is eliminated in the first round.

 

[Underseer]

Voter turnout rates are still above 50%.

Is that supposed to imply that the will of the voters and the will of the people are synonymous? Because it really truly doesn't.

The people who don't turn out to vote are the moderates; extremists and enthusiasts always turn out to vote; and they also are massively over-represented in the pools of candidates. A guy who truly believes that 9/11 was an inside job done by the lizard people is FAR more likely than average to go to the effort and trouble of getting himself elected in order to push his anti-lizard person agenda than is a sane person to stand up for election in order to prevent the Tinfoil Hat Party from gaining power.

The only way to prevent the loons from being massively over-represented in a representative democracy is to make both candidacy and voting mandatory. As Douglas Adams pointed out, the one characteristic that makes a person most obviously unsuitable for the presidency is a desire to become president.

I would like to see candidates for office at every level selected ONLY by random lottery of eligible voters; and to see voting made compulsory for all eligible citizens. Make the candidate pool fairly large, and use a voting system such as IRV or STV, where every voter's choices contribute to the selection of the final winner even if their first choice is eliminated in the first round.

The Democratic front-runner does not believe that 9/11 was an inside job by the lizard people.

The Republican front-runner believes that America's problems can be attributed to foreigners, non-whites, and encourages his followers to beat up dissenters, while the number two Republican candidate proudly shared the stage with a preacher calling for the execution of homosexuals.

Come to think of it, I can't think of any major industrialized with major candidates as openly racist and fascist as Trump.