Markos Moulitsas wrote a book this year called American Taliban that I purchased a few weeks ago. He got some flack for graphically detailing the realities of the Right Wing movement. Those who claim he was using “Rush Limbaugh” tactics simply need t listen to the words of Jim Demint and many others in the Right Wing. Their close mindedness & insensitivity is no different.
Actively promoting a 6 thousand year old earth, that man has no significant impact on the environment, that control of a woman’s body should be relegated to government,.and that citizens should be left to their own devises show the same modal as stated in Moulitsas book. If the media reflects the true beliefs of the Right Wing and what they want to do to this country, our progressive movement would not be in jeopardy at all.
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Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) attempted to convince pastors that economic issues are moral issues at the Greater Freedom Rally at a church in Spartanburg, South Carolina yesterday, imploring them to help conservatives retake Congress in November. In addition to reiterating anti-choice talking points on abortion and backing "traditional marriage," according to the Spartanburg Herald-Journal, the senator went further and "said if someone is openly homosexual, they shouldn’t be teaching in the classroom and he holds the same position on an unmarried woman who’s sleeping with her boyfriend — she shouldn’t be in the classroom."
Controversy over DeMint’s position on this issue first arose in 2004 during a Senate debate, when he was asked whether he agreed with the state party’s platform that said openly gay teachers should be barred from teaching public school. DeMint said he agreed with that position because government shouldn’t be endorsing certain behaviors.
After significant criticism from LGBT groups, including the Log Cabin Republicans, DeMint apologized for saying "something as a dad that I just shouldn’t have said."
"(When I said those things,) no one came to my defense," DeMint said on Friday in Spartanburg. "But everyone would come to me and whisper that I shouldn’t back down. They don’t want government purging their rights and their freedom to religion."
Wesley M. Denton, communications director for DeMint, told The Huffington Post that the senator was "making a point about how the media attacks people for holding a moral opinion." "Senator DeMint believes that hiring decisions at local schools are a local school board issue, not a federal issue," he added.
It’s unclear, however, whether DeMint still personally believes that these individuals should not be teachers. In October 2004, DeMint went on NBC’s "Meet the Press" and apologized for distracting from "the real debate" but refused to back away from his remarks:
Sen. Jim DeMint: Gays And Unmarried, Pregnant Women Should Not Teach Public School