GOP Rep Bill Flores (TX-17) Links Baltimore Riots To Gay Marriage

[big_dog]

Source: Right Wing Watch--People for the American Way

On “Washington Watch,” Family Research Council President Tony Perkins hosted Rep. Bill Flores, R-Texas, to discuss the anti-marriage equality rally outside of the Supreme Court that both had attended that morning.

During the interview, Flores bizarrely suggested that gay marriage will somehow lead to a breakdown of the family model and an increased number of single-parent-led households, contributing to poverty and the conditions which led to the Baltimore riots:

'Let’s talk about poverty, for instance. The single best indicator of whether or not a child is going to be in poverty or not is whether or not they were raised by a two-parent household or a single parent household, so the breakdown of the family has contributed to poverty. Look at what is going on in Baltimore today, you see the issues that are raised there. Healthy marriages are the ones between a man and a woman because they can have a healthy family and they can raise children in a way that’s best for their future, not only socially but psychologically, economically, from a health perspective. There is nothing like traditional marriage that does that for a child. Each of us have a mother and a father and there is no way to get around that.'

Flores also alleged that 80 percent of Americans oppose a Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide (when actually 50 percent [PDF] support the court doing just that).


Read more: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/gop-rep-bill-flores-links-baltimore-riots-gay-marriage

[dhill926]

1. tone deaf, bigoted motherfucker.....

[wordpix]

2. idiot repuke like most of them - convoluted thinking on single parent poverty

So if gay people want to get married, that makes 2 people raising a child, right? but somehow this dingbat equates a gay marriage with a one-parent household causing children to live in poverty

How about funding some programs to help these one-parent poverty stricken households, repugs?

[LuckyLib]

3. Just spent time with a good friend in TX. She is amazed at the idiocy in her adopted state.

The yahoo meter is over in the red zone.

[KansDem]

4. It was only a matter to time...

...before these clowns opened their mouths and ejaculated bullshit.

[Botany]

5. How long before Rep. Bill Flores, R-Texas is caught @ Mr. Ted's Leather and Locker Room bar?

It is always the ones who worry about all those big nasty things that "they" do
to each other.

[LiberalElite]

6. Someone had to do it I guess...

Those right wing freaks never disappoint, ever.

[lancer78]

7. Isn't it true

that gay people tend to earn more then straight?

[nomorenomore08]

8. Gay male couples do. But that's because of the general male/female pay gap.

And of course, not having kids gives you quite a bit more disposable income - although childless gay couples is not as much the norm as it used to be.

[blkmusclmachine]

9. http://farleftside.com/2010/7-30-2010.png

[AngryDem001]

10. Oh. My. God.

I don't know what to say. I really don't.

They are so fucking brain-dead and tone deaf. It's amazing, actually.

I'm speechless.

[DiverDave]

11. This yahoo will win the next election in a landslide...

I weep for the collective IQ in some parts of my country.
For this to be believed just boggles my mind.

[Evar]

12. Flores is my representative

I have a graphic that shows where Flores is in terms of his political ideology. He's way, way to the right of the herd. As I recall, he is not far from Steve Stockman, who was not re-elected. This millionaire oil man is my representative, and I have never heard him make one true statement.

[graegoyle]

13. I'm not a sociologist, but...

I'm going to make a wild leap in logic and suggest that a possible reason for the "riots" is police violence.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

14. Idiot