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- uncajoe, on 11/22/2008, -8/+129I think the wrong Gingrich sibling has the national following.
- Phylter, on 11/22/2008, -6/+105Gingrich is not about good governance, just control of people and policies and spewing his hatred and contempt of the American people to empower himself. The man is a maggot, he comes from a political family of maggots such as PNAC, the Heritage Society, the National Review.
He has the gall to spew "family values" despite having been twice divorced. He's a piece of *****. - DangerCollie, on 11/22/2008, -5/+75Ouch. Publicly thumped by your kid sister. The religious right is biggest obstacle this country faces. We can solve the energy crisis, the stock market will recover, but as long as we're saddled with the right, we'll always be dragging them along like a crabby mother-in-law you can never quite fully escape.
- GrandmaSheila, on 11/22/2008, -4/+69Back to the farm, EW
Hate to disagree with all you lovers of Theocracy, but this is about the right of people to marry, which is none of your business in any case. It's a "civil rights" issue, because bigots like you seem to think that "majority rule" applies to civil liberties, which it does not. Straight or Gay is not a "preference", it's how one is born, not a "choice", but even if it were, everyone should still have the right to marry whoever they please, without reference to the religious idiocy, persecution, and ignorance of bigoted *****.
Read it again: "Civil Rights & liberties are not subject to the whims of 'majority rule', they are unalienable." Don't like gay marriage?
DON'T MARRY ONE THEN. Otherwise, mind your own f*****g business. This law is unconstitutional, which is why so many people are screaming about it. Your "rights as a voter" do not include the right to persecute others with your religion, or for any other reason. Get it? - thepoliticalcat, on 11/22/2008, -12/+66That's telling Lizard, Candace. Or is it Slither? Snake? Toad? Oh, yeah, Newt. Aptly named, too.
- inactive, on 11/22/2008, -5/+54Oooh -- that's gonna leave a mark (frankly).
- GrandmaSheila, on 11/22/2008, -9/+56Go Candace! Kick him again! And AGAIN! WhoooHOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
- Weatherwaxx, on 11/22/2008, -6/+51A man who tries to get his dying wife to sign away her alimony while she's in postop, coming out of anesthesia after cancer surgery, deserves to be kicked in the balls -- hard -- by Candace's entire lesbian rugby team.
And those girls are TOUGH. - mtnmusicman, on 11/22/2008, -8/+53Reality, what a concept. The guy is a bonified jerk!
- geHaX, on 11/22/2008, -5/+41How is a right of equal marriage instead of discrimination not a civil rights issue. please inform me
- inactive, on 11/23/2008, -1/+37I bet the thanksgiving dinner will be awkward.
- rewinn, on 11/23/2008, -6/+40Sexual orientation is a biological fact, just as skin color is.
It's funny and sad to see people like you make the same arguments against same-sex marriage that our ancestors made against mixed-race marriage. It may take a generation, but you will live to be embarrassed by your hatred of equality. - batman677, on 11/23/2008, -5/+33She is probably not even allowed at their house at Thanksgiving; they are such incredible haters! Go Candace, tell him like it is... be afraid Newt, be very afraid!
- angeladtao, on 11/23/2008, -5/+32I have notice, too, that the far Right has totally missed the fact that the America of today is not the America that we older folks grew up in. That America is gone and will never come back no matter how many laws they try to pass. The younger folks are fine with it because this is the America they have always known. We older Americans are the ones with the problem. Newt belongs to that older group that seems determined to hold back the hands of time no matter what the cost to human rights and dignity. Never mind that he himself is a product of the times himself since divorce was only a few generations ago considered socially irredeemable. Yet, he and others like him are still trying to bring back the past. The America I grew up in was very different from that of my great grandparent's generation, yet the Constitution was still able to keep our country free and prosperous. That is the genius of this document. I know that it is still able to adapt to the changing face of America today. Our children will create their America according to their needs and the situations that present themselves. The Constitution will be there for them, always flexible enough to adapt to changing conditions. This is what Candace was trying to tell her brother. It seems like the rigid Right Wing can't adapt to change as easily as more flexible, open-minded centrist or left-leaning folks. They are the ones who will continue to be bitter and see an America transformed into an evil country instead of the inevitable evolution of ideas as the generations hand off to the next one. How sad to hold on so hard that you would rather break than bend.
- IMJGaltstill, on 11/23/2008, -4/+28As much as I hate to do this, anyone that stands against gay marriage and considers themselves a civil libertarian needs to go back and re-read the 5th and 10th amendments. The government does not and should not have the power to dictate these matters.
- Phylter, on 11/23/2008, -1/+25Anti-gay supporters deserve all the blowback they're getting. Left wingers tried playing nice, that worked out oh so well, didn't it... They deserve WAAAAY more vitriol.
- thenekkidtruth, on 11/22/2008, -5/+29And all that press coverage about Obama really winning the election as President of the United States was really "bogus" . . . right?
Quick . . there's another Digg article about Barack's citizenship . . . y'all don't want to miss that, fairyworld ! - KibblesnBitts, on 11/23/2008, -1/+22Gingrich came to my university to speak this September. He told us passionately that he did not believe the youth vote would matter. He then went on to ask how many people in the room (which held about 1000 people, many of them standing) intended on voting. Every hand went up. His retort: "Well, you guys are just the most politically active campus, you don't represent a true college sample"
Suck it, Newt - Evanmontegarde, on 11/23/2008, -1/+22And he served up those divorce papers to his wife while she was in the hospital immediately after being diagnosed with cancer, at that!
- geHaX, on 11/23/2008, -1/+20^ well done. I could not have said it any better. I was going to let that person humiliate themselves first by trying to defend their position.
- Halbermunken, on 11/23/2008, -3/+22"However, on religious issues there can be little or no compromise. There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious beliefs. There is no more powerful ally one can claim in a debate than Jesus Christ, or God, or Allah, or whatever one calls this supreme being.But like any powerful weapon, the use of God's name on one's behalf should be used sparingly. The religious factions that are growingthroughout our land are not using their religious clout with wisdom.They are trying to force government leaders into following their position 100 percent. If you disagree with these religious groups on aparticular moral issue, they complain, they threaten you with a loss of money or votes or both. I'm frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want to bea moral person, I must believe in "A," "B," "C," and "D." Just who dothey think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me? And I am even more angry as a legislator who must endure the threats of every religious group who thinks it has some God-granted right to control my vote on every roll call in the Senate. I am warning them today: I will fight them every step of the way if they try to dictate their moral convictions to all Americans in the name of "conservatism." [Senator Barry Goldwater]
- GrandmaSheila, on 11/23/2008, -1/+20I'm not here to "convert" anyone to anything, merely to comment when confronted by a member of the ever-vocal idiocracy that is always out in force on digg. While I normally ignore attacks, sexist slurs will usually draw a comment. You have a problem with "hyper vitriolic bitches"? That's a shame.
It's way past the time to be polite to these people, in case you haven't noticed. They read that as weakness, and in no way moderate their views, or listen to the other side of things. I'm sick and tired of christiban bullies tearing up the lives of thousands of innocent people who have done them no harm, and will call them out on it whenever I can.
Too bad if that offends you, but allow me to relieve you of the "distasteful" and unnecessary task of defending me, especially since it's just a mask for ad hominem abuse. - grapesofbaath, on 11/23/2008, -4/+20"You belittle the relationships of gay and lesbian couples, and yet somehow neglect to explain who anointed you the protector of "traditional" marriage." - Candace Gingrich
Good point. Gays are harming marriage? Not the guys who get cheat on, then divorce a wife bedridden with cancer? Isn't that guy harming marriage? Isn't that guy YOU, Newt? - duhduhduh, on 11/23/2008, -5/+20Very sweet! Little sis kicks some bloated right-wing rear. And now we know who in the family got the rugged good looks.
- Anomaly100, on 11/23/2008, -3/+18He so deserves every single word, every utterance in her letter- If I were Newt, at Thanksgiving, I wouldn't sit next to my little sister if she's carving the turkey.
Zing! Pow! Write him again Candace! - algaeturd, on 11/23/2008, -1/+16The religious right is just as dangerous as any other extremist religion. In American, more so even because of how accepted the hatred and bile that comes from them. It's disturbing when you see their blatant hate and then it's justified because, well, it's just expected from them at this point.
Candace is right. Young Americans (straight and gay) want to turn the page on the hateful fundamentalism that has marred and scarred this country over the past decades. Newt is part of a dying breed, kicking and screaming, passing judgment and trying one last scare tactic to get people to see things their way.
We tried their way. It failed miserably. Time to move forward and make the country and world a better place, erase the mainstream hatred fueled and perpetuated by the far right 'moral majority' and say bye-bye to the old school way of thinking about everything. - JenniferInMO, on 11/23/2008, -3/+18You go, Girl. Don't let him hoodwink America again!
- travelon77, on 11/23/2008, -3/+17Is this really Newt's sister talking?! IF so, that's great! You go, girl! Tell em how it is! Ranks up there with Dick Cheney's daughter being lesbian. God, the far right are a bunch of f'ing hypocrits! Just learn to love, you old fogies! ACCEPTANCE IS THE KEY. And if you don't change, we'll still accept you. After all, you provide us with plenty of ammo and laughs! (but that doesn't mean we'd vote for you;)
- jsmu, on 11/23/2008, -2/+15You mean a birth defect like your missing cortex, right? Maybe there should be lobotomies to put the rest of your brain out of our misery...
- inactive, on 11/23/2008, -0/+13Newt Gingrich will NEVER get the power he once had, IMO.
- Joe_rigby, on 11/23/2008, -4/+15The republicans fail to understand that fear is not limitless, but hope is.
- youannoyme, on 11/23/2008, -3/+14If you're asking what I think you're asking...which I'm not sure... it *is* a civil rights issue. But the instant its officially called that by everyone its going to be glaringly (more) obvious who is on the correct side of this issue. And since the opposition is aware of this, they are not going to let it be called a civil rights issue for as long as they can manage
- TheWriteGuy, on 11/23/2008, -2/+12I want to vote for this Gingrich. Candace, consider a run for public office.
- inactive, on 11/23/2008, -3/+13"In other words, stop being a hater, big bro."
- nihilville, on 11/23/2008, -2/+12The telephone hasn't been invented yet that can convey the utter contempt that Americans (including his own sister, apparently) feel for this right wing scumbag loudly enough.
- woodsjransom, on 11/23/2008, -0/+10I am definitely a child of the 60's and 70's I am TOO proud of the younger generation that came out of the woodwork to vote and I hope they STAY in the political process. It was demanded of me by my mother to participate in the political process. I also DEMAND that same expectation of my children. I actively encouraged my children and their friends in their senior years at high school and always had them and their friends walk across the stage with a diploma in one hand and a voter registration card in the other. I would round my son and his friends from the basketball courts on election day and took them to their polling place to vote. It is true that as you get older you tend to get more conservative but if you are truly a child of the 60's and 70's you will never be that conservative. How can you when so much wrong is going on in the world? So now we got a Republican self appointed messiah I am loving it!!!
- Player1, on 11/23/2008, -1/+10Unfortunately, I don't think this woman is correct in assuming that younger voters are more enlightened than their predecessors. I am one of the eighteen to twenty-four year olds who registered and voted (for the first time) in this election, and I carefully did my homework on every candidate that I marked on my ballot. Unfortunately, many of my peers voted based entirely on ninety second advertisements, slogans and vague promises made by their candidates (be it on either side of the issue) without knowing exactly what they were voting for. It may be "progressive", but it's just as ill-informed as the hate politics that my parents had voted on prior to 2008.
- dustbowl, on 11/23/2008, -0/+9I guess with Generation Equality, we need to fix our own problems at home (i.e. America) first before we start fixing them else where in the world... (i.e. countries that don't allow women to drive...)
- kristianidol, on 11/23/2008, -5/+14Thank you, Candace.
- andibarnes, on 11/23/2008, -1/+10Who else wants to be a fly on the wall at that particular family's thanksgiving dinner?
- Fogdelune, on 11/23/2008, -1/+9Really, I'm not sure how this isn't a "pursuit of happiness" issue. Not that marriage is necessarily happiness, hell, it could be miserableness, but at least the pursuit of that should be a right, not taken away by the majority.
- kronix2, on 11/23/2008, -0/+8I think McCain dumping his newly-disabled wife and marrying an extremely wealthy heiress trumps that, though.
- reuscel, on 11/23/2008, -1/+9Didn't Gingrich serve his wife with divorce papers while she was recovering from cancer surgery?
Yeah, he's a real class act. - nemodomi, on 11/23/2008, -0/+8In my opinion he's a *bona fide* jerk, but, not being aware of his sexual preferences, I can't really guess whether he's ever been bonified.
- Morchades, on 11/23/2008, -0/+7When people say that Religious Right is the problem, you can't really counter that by pointing out that a centrist President made creepy compromises in order to appease the Religious Right and that those compromises are what got us into trouble. The REASON those compromises were made was because of fear of backlash caused by the power of the Religious Right during the 90s. The PROBLEM is STILL the Religious Right, and always has been.
- xchrisxsays, on 11/23/2008, -6/+13Sisters, you can never trust them.
/even if she is 100% right. - tsf5000, on 11/23/2008, -1/+8I wouldn't expect someone whose user name includes "farmwife" to have the most progressive attitudes about this issue, or anything for that matter.
- youannoyme, on 11/23/2008, -0/+7So I take it you are against gay's adopting then...-_-
Marriage isn't just about raising kids either. It's simply a level of commitment one person makes to another, and its a significant enough of a commitment that governments have tons and tons of laws dealing specifically with it. Now of course, civil unions are designed to mimic much (or all, if you are lucky enough to live in the right states) of the legal status for marriage, but there are two problems with that. The first is that many of the most vocal people against gay marriage are against civil union too. They just don't talk about it or push it nearly as much because they know its a fight they are a lot less likely to win. So if they manage to get rid of gay marriage everywhere, then the next item on the agenda would be civil unions. The other is that even in the case where the civil unions are legally equivalent to marriage, as long as governments are recognizing marriage as something special that the lgbt community can't partake in, they are second class citizens. We (should have) learned a long time ago that separate is not equal. - youannoyme, on 11/23/2008, -2/+9Why? It's not like she is saying anything baseless. And its not like she is coming out of the blue just to personally attack him. If you missed it, she's part of the lgbt community, and thus on opposite sides as him on a polarized issue. So is it then your stance that a sister (half sister at that) is not allowed to stand up and say things that every other non-related person is allowed to stand up and say? Or that familial ties means you are obligated to defend family, even when they are in the wrong and/or doing something horrible? What's right is right, and who you are related should not be a factor
- bsmang, on 11/23/2008, -1/+7Don't mind Stevanoski. He thinks there's some invisible guy named God who just loves him to pieces and really hates gay people. In other words, he's hopelessly confused.
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