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(46,357 posts)
Mon Jun 15, 2015, 07:08 PM Jun 2015

Phyllis Schlafly and Tom DeLay show just how racist and stupid they are...

"10 Supreme Court justices?"

"Brown vs Board of Education and Loving v. Virginia were mistakes?"



Tom DeLay Urges Americans To Defy The 'Ten' Justices Of The Supreme Court

Submitted by Mikayla Bean on Monday, 6/15/2015 5:30 pm

This past Saturday, Phyllis Schlafly hosted former House GOP Majority Leader Tom DeLay on “Eagle Forum Live” to discuss the alleged threat of gay marriage. Schlafly segued into the topic of gay marriage by describing an open letter to the Supreme Court, signed by conservative pastors and politicians, pledging to defy any Court decision which strikes down state bans on same-sex marriage. DeLay lamented that “people don’t understand the constitution. We haven’t taught our children now for three or four generations what the Constitution is, and the separation of powers, and what our Founding Fathers had in mind as this brilliant understanding of how you can limit government and limit the tyranny put on us through people or oligarchies.” Because of this supposed constitutional ignorance, DeLay claimed, “right now, the American people don’t understand that the Supreme Court, when it makes a ruling, it’s just an opinion if no one enforces that ruling. The Supreme Court doesn’t have a police force; the Supreme Court doesn’t have an army; the Supreme Court doesn’t have people that can enforce their ruling.” Therefore, if conservatives “stand up to them and invoke the Constitution, then we don’t have to accept a ruling on marriage that redefines marriage. And that’s basically what this ad is all about. We’re sending a message to the Supreme Court that, number one, it’s illegal that they have this case before them; it’s not in their jurisdiction.” Proving his Constitutional prowess, DeLay argued that “it’s not in their authority to write law by ten unelected, unaccountable people, lawyers, and if – this is a red line that we’re drawing. If they rule against marriage, we will all defy them.” Further along in the show, a caller, responding to the overreach of the Supreme Court, noted that “civil rights laws, such as Brown v. Board of Education and Virginia v. Loving [sic], were put on us by courts legislating from the bench and presidential executive orders. And back then even one-third of the black people did not want integration. And Governor George Wallace warned about the tyranny now happening under the Obama administration.” Responding to this lecture, Schlafly observed, “Well, lots of mistakes have been made along those lines.”

- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/tom-delay-urges-america-defy-ten-justices-supreme-court#sthash.XZZbRl37.dpuf

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Phyllis Schlafly and Tom DeLay show just how racist and stupid they are... (Original Post) Archae Jun 2015 OP
Stupid is as stupid does hobbit709 Jun 2015 #1
Methinks the Bug Man may have been overexposed to insecticides KamaAina Jun 2015 #2
I really hate that woman JustAnotherGen Jun 2015 #3
well, THERE is a pair (of idiots) to draw to. hifiguy Jun 2015 #4
OMFG! Why does anybody listen to these idiot buffoons? longship Jun 2015 #5
 

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
2. Methinks the Bug Man may have been overexposed to insecticides
Mon Jun 15, 2015, 07:19 PM
Jun 2015


I'm actually amazed he hasn't jumped into the clown car yet!

JustAnotherGen

(31,932 posts)
3. I really hate that woman
Mon Jun 15, 2015, 07:22 PM
Jun 2015

She has caused more hatred and viciousness towards so many groups - she needs to shut up.

Yeah - Phylilis a mistake. Go fuck yourself.

longship

(40,416 posts)
5. OMFG! Why does anybody listen to these idiot buffoons?
Mon Jun 15, 2015, 07:35 PM
Jun 2015

The problem is... There are too damned many people who believe this shit.

This is the core of the GOP, fellow DUers. This is what we are fighting. And these troglodytes control most of the state houses and both the US House and the US Senate.

Meanwhile, here at DU, some are fighting about Bernie versus Hillary. If you are, you chose poorly. You are missing the real, and far more dangerous target, the fucking GOP.

R&

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