GOP official says fixation with 'homosexual activities' harming U.S. moral core

[jpak]

Source: NBC News

Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill, a Republican contender in the 2020 U.S. Senate race, has set off a new controversy after saying Americans’ fixation with “homosexual activities” has, in part, caused the country's moral decline.

Merrill, 55, is running to defeat Sen. Doug Jones, a Democrat who won the seat in 2017 after his Republican challenger Roy Moore was accused of soliciting sex from underage girls.

According to an April poll by Mason-Dixon, before Merrill entered the race, Moore was the top pick among Alabama voters.

“The foundational principles which we have grown up as a nation are no more,” Merrill said at a Fort Payne town hall over the weekend. “There are no more good TV shows on like ‘Gunsmoke,’ ‘Bonanza,’ ‘The Virginian,’ ‘Andy Griffith,’ ‘I Love Lucy.’ We don’t have those shows anymore. We’re too interested in homosexual activities.”

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[Brother Buzz]

1. Why is it that Republicans seem to be the ones fixated with this 'homosexual activities' thingy?

Most curious

[RKP5637]

2. Exactly!!! The Republicans always have their noses in someones sexual organs!!! Most curious!!! n/t

[Grokenstein]

16. Same as it ever was

When they're out of power, it's all "get Big Gubbermint out of your bedroom!" but when they're IN, they're not just in your bedroom, they're constantly snuffling around your crotch like an undisciplined mutt.

[RKP5637]

21. Plus they're always got their noses up someones ass, like those around tRump! n/t

[dawg day]

27. Yes, I've never known anyone as obsessed with "homosexual activities" as some right-wingers-

There was one around here who would rant on and on about the "tangled perverted sheets". It was almost funny. Porn novels had less detail than his rant did.

[TygrBright]

3. Has he told the rest of the GOP this? They could move on any day... n/t

[AllaN01Bear]

4. wonder what this person has to hide ?

here we go again.

[zentrum]

8. True point. He's given a tell

....for sure about what "fixates" him.

Someone should also point out to him that Ricky came from one of those S#@^thole countries as defined by his party. If Ricky had come for the first time to this country in current times, he'd be put in a cage at the border until his case was processed. Or just sent back, considering it's Cuba.

Guess this closeted candidate thinks that the Andy Griffith show et al were documentaries?

[trev]

5. Gunsmoke! LOL

Where Miss Kitty was a madam....

[zentrum]

9. Exactly. It's hysterical.

[murielm99]

29. I watched an old Gunsmoke recently.

Quint and Festus went to a larger town to pick up a part for the blacksmith shop. All the way there and back, Festus made fun of Quint for being half Comanche. He said, "Comanches is soft." That was the title of the episode. Quint just took it. The racism was appalling.

Also, a girl ran off from the saloon and wanted to go back with them. They said they would help her get a job with Miss Kitty.

When Festus was cutting a branch, the girl asked if he was cutting it so he could beat her with it. He said no. Then, the girl's lover, large enough to beat up the two men at the same time, burst into the camp. He had come to take her back. He told them that she ran off quite often. She asked if he was going to beat her. He said yes.

The men asked if she loved the large man. She said that she did love him, except when he was beating her.

So, how is that for nice, tradition values? Racism and spouse beating?

[trev]

36. Both of which were in vogue when it ran.

[bronxiteforever]

6. Climate change is coming to Alabama

and it doesn’t care about John Merrill’s opinion on sexual morality. According to a 2019 Brookings report, Alabama is going to get a good portion of the negative climate change.

“...Climate change will, according to a new report by the Brookings Institute, wreak the most havoc on the Southeastern states by the end of the century, and heap the most economic distress on states that, you know, don’t buy into that whole climate change thing.

Alabama, according to Brookings, will suffer the fifth highest economic loss, behind only Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana and Arkansas. Birmingham is projected to suffer the 15th-worst climate-related loss. Only the top 100 metros were included.

Or as Brookings puts it:

“While increases in agricultural yields will significantly benefit the nation’s Northwest, climate-caused deaths will hurt the Southwest as coastal storms and sea-level issues batter the Southeast, Florida, and the Gulf Coast. These patterns suggest that many red-voting states in the “brown barricade” are likely disproportionately exposed to climate change’s negative impacts.”

https://www.al.com/news/2019/02/study-alabama-red-states-will-bear-brunt-of-climate-change.html

[RKP5637]

12. Someone told me recently that in not too many years the temperate in southern Florida

will feel like 137 degrees because of climate change. I wonder how the climate change deniers like Rick Scott (the criminal) will feel about that ...

[bronxiteforever]

15. +1 Yes. Florida is in the climate change bullseye.

[RKP5637]

20. Between that and the decaying Gulf, Florida is likely not to be much of a destination IMO in coming

years. Imagine humidity of about 98% and a temperature that feels like 136 degrees ... not exactly sun bathing and resort type weather. Plus all of the flooding in Miami and more areas ...

[bronxiteforever]

22. Absolutely. The state is a Petri dish for climate change

And man’s destruction of the environment.

[rpannier]

42. If the waters of the Gulf and the Atlantic would separate it in the north

we could put all those republikkans there, ala Escape from New York and leave them until they die off

[dawg day]

28. Well, the Floridian GOP keeps nominating climate-change deniers-

So they don't seem too worried about the state's future. Here I am in the north central region, where we have plenty of freshwater and are a long way from tsunamis, and I'm more worried than the governor of a state just about surrounded by ocean.

[RKP5637]

30. I just don't get it. It's beyond being stupid and ignorant. WTF are they trying to do/prove. It

really boggles the mind trying to understand some of these critters. This stuff is really real, and they live in some la la land of denial. Really, just WTF!

[NBachers]

7. Wasting their precious bodily fluids

[rzemanfl]

31. Are we harkening to

Dr. Strangelove?

[The Liberal Lion]

10. Moral code?!?

WTF is that when it comes to republicans? donald trump is perhaps the greatest moral disaster in the modern history of this country.
Republican morality
Grab 'em by the p***y, well that's great.
Grab 'em by the peter (when it's consensual) by another man, well that's a no-no.

Republicans sicken me to no end.

[RKP5637]

14. I think a fair number of republicans have some significant mental issues and that is why they

have gravitated, anymore, to what the republican party has now become. Just a casual observation of republicans and what they say, even with no training, one can observe some are really F'ed up, for brief terminology.

[bucolic_frolic]

11. TV shows are Merrill's reality

I think he'd find a Wild West saloon or a Klondike brothel clashing with his mental constructs

[elleng]

13. It's true, repugs are so fixated on others' 'homosexual activities'

that they can't keep from thinking about their ass holes.

[RKP5637]

17. Yeah, that is one thing I was thinking about in my post #14. With most of these guys it's often

found out they have some pretty significant sexual whirlings around going on in their heads, and hence all of the deflection and projection as coping and self-defense mechanisms.

[elleng]

19. Yes

[Dem Dean]

23. Methinks they doth protest too much

How many "startling" revelations about GOP and/or wingnut gaybashers have their been over the years???

[agtcovert]

24. Who's fixated exactly?

Can't say as I've ever cared what anyone does, long as it's consensual.

I'd say having a pussy grabbing, narcissistic despot for a pResident has done far more to cause our "moral decline" whatever the hell that is.

[Politicub]

25. First they came for the immigrants...

We’ve seen this movie before.

[Thomas Hurt]

26. Well he is right and what is he going to do about the GOP's sick fixation?

[guillaumeb]

32. The same GOP that overlooks pedophiles, racists, and thieves?

That GOP?

[PSPS]

33. Classic example of the old joke...

PATIENT: Doctor, I'm always thinking about sex. It never stops! Can you help me?

DOCTOR: Well, let's see. Look at these rorschach images and tell me what you see.

(Patient describes some kind of sexual theme with every inkblot)

DOCTOR: Yes, you do seem to be fixated on sex.

PATIENT: Me? You're the one with all the dirty pictures!

[area51]

34. Sorry, Merrill, it looks like you're the one with the fixation. n/t

[keithbvadu2]

35. By "fixation", for republicans, does he mean 'worried about' or 'participating'?

By "fixation", for republicans, does he mean 'worried about' or 'participating'?

If you like young boys, you too can be elected republican House Speaker.

[truthisfreedom]

37. SOMEBODY is.

It’s always the closeted ones.

Dude needs to learn the meaning of fixation.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

38. Sounds to me he's the one fixated.

I'm not gay so I could give a shit less.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

39. Political activities of the Republican Party is what's harming our U.S. moral core.

Right-wingers use distractive fixations on homosexuality and abortion cheered on by mega churches-for-hire which in turn are funded by the billionaire class in order to keep the public distracted from real issues like economic and racial inequality and climate change.

They also throw things like war, a border crisis or an international diplomatic shitshow every so often for effect.

They're experts on exploiting America's almost total fixation on entertainment, consumerism and social media bullshit.

Whew!.........

[kimbutgar]

40. Dumbass, homosexuality has been around on earth since the beginning of recorded mankind

There are a lot of people who were in the closet and now can be themselves. Plus dumbass even in nature there is homosexuality.

Sounds like the guy is in the closet since he is so worried about homosexuality.

[jgmiller]

41. They really have this fixation with the 1950's