{"id":13070,"date":"2014-06-23T00:04:50","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T07:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=13070"},"modified":"2014-06-23T00:04:50","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T07:04:50","slug":"last-weeks-despicable-republican-outrages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/23\/last-weeks-despicable-republican-outrages\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Week’s Despicable Republican Outrages"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every week, Republicans join a competition to see who can say the most outlandish things, and in the process, every week they push the the envelope on just how despicable InsaniTEA can become.  I trust that you will believe it when I tell you that last week was no exception.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"0623Erickson\"<\/p>\n

\u2026Erick Erickson defends anti-gay remark even Rick Perry knows to distance himself from.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Last week, Texas Governor Rick Perry acknowledged he \u201cstepped right in it\u201d when he compared homosexuality to alcoholism. Unlike the aforementioned Cheney Monster, Perry seems to have thought better of something he said and realized on some tiny little pea-brained level the error of his ways.<\/p>\n

The problem is that once these idiotic thoughts hit the cold airwaves of reality they take on a life of their own among the other nutcases, and so on Friday, RedState.com founder and Fox News contributor Erick Erickson wrote a column agreeing that homosexuality is a disorder like addiction or alcoholism that sufferers must \u201cstruggle\u201d to \u201covercome,\u201d Media Matters reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI largely agree with Governor Rick Perry and appreciate him speaking up,\u201d Erickson said, perhaps unaware that Perry had retracted his statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhether one is born gay or not does not mean God made a person gay,\u201d Erickson said.  \u201cAnd whether it is the unrepentant alcoholic, homosexual, adulterer, liar, or any of the others the Duck Commander listed, none are going to be saved on the last day without repenting.\u201d<\/p>\n

So repent, yee sinners repent. Be holy and homophobic like your brothers on \u2018Duck Dynasty.\u2019 The kingdom of heaven will open its pearly gates to those who hate the ones who love differently\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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This is just one of six despicable Republican Outrages from last week.  Click through for the other five.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every week, Republicans join a competition to see who can say the most outlandish things, and in the process, every week they push the the envelope on just how despicable InsaniTEA can become.  I trust that you will believe it when I tell you that last week was no exception. \u2026Erick Erickson defends anti-gay remark […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}