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Marco Rubio: "I don't judge homosexual sinners."

• 2016 Goat Rodeo - So the video above is notable Cuban exile memoirist-fabulist Marco Rubio trying to walk back some of his more well-known positions on the gays, you know, to position himself for a run at the preznint. But in the meanwhile since he says that he doesn't use his faith as a weapon and whatnot, Think Progress has listed some of the many positions and actions he has taken to oppose full civil rights for gays.
• Hey guys, remember that time that Petunia and Pals got their panties in a twist because The Kenyan Usurper was meeting with MSNBC news personalities and said that if he had been meeting with Fox News that the rest of the media would (rightly) be up in arms? Me Neither!, but anyway, here's a post from Media Matters that documents when Chimpy McStagger met with Fox News and no one else.
• Prison Brides - Former convict and disgraced super-lobbyist (redundant?) Jack Abramoff was spotted having lunch with current campaign-money-laundering convict Tom Delay in Washington DC. The two men have a long and scandalous history together, including as traveling buddies on now-infamous trips to the Northern Mariana's Islands and to Scotland, so we can only assume that Abramoff is giving The Bug Man some tips on how to have nice prison wedding. (WaPo)

--Tengrain

Comments

[Teddy Partridge]

If ONLY "Former convict and disgraced super-lobbyist" was redundant. I fear too m any of them are on the loose.

[John Harvey]

Regarding Rubio's comments, what I think is being missed is that he subtly but unequivocally equates homosexuality with the breaking of the Big Ten (lying, stealing, "coveting your neighbor" (?), etc.), as opposed to all of the "minor" sins (eating shrimp, cutting your hair, suffering witches to live, and so on).

As my Fundie friends often say to me, "Oh, those only applied to the Hebrews of the ancient Middle East. They don't count anymore." And as I often say to my Fundie friends, "Who are you to decide?"

Sounds a lot like Cafeteria Catholicism to me.