Thrasher's obsessive attacks on Pam-- and the overall tenor of his comments-- paint a crystal-clear picture.

He hates gay people.

His hatred burns with the heat of a thousand suns.

He hates having to share oxygen with them, let alone the rights and responsibilities of FULL citizenship. He wants gay people to SHUT UP and GO AWAY. And if they won't, he'll call them racists.

Well fuck you, Thrasher. I'm calling Bullshit on you whining "The White Man is oppressing me". Your shitty attitude and interpersonal skills are keeping you down. No one else is. I'm not, and Pam sure isn't. Take your hatred of gays elsewhere and shove it up your ass.

I live here in the US. I work, I don't litter or break laws, I pay taxes-- a LOT of taxes. I live my life with my wonderful partner. And just because I live my life openly and happily as a gay man, I DON'T deserve to be denied my Constitutional rights-- least of all by the likes of a bigoted idiot like you.

I'm still calling Bullshit on your "Poor Pitiful Me" posturing. You have a chip on your shoulder big as Mt. Everest.

You hate gays. And you're not particularly fond of white people either. Especially Jews, it would seem. Just how DO you get through a typical day out in the world without having your head explode with impotent rage?

And Glenn and Pam exhibit more scholarly authority and intellectual rigor in a wet belch than you could in a million pages of typing (I won't call what you do "writing").

I'm fine with alternative viewpoints. But not when hatred underlies said viewpoints. And everything you type drips with hatred. Searing, blinding hatred. You, and those like you, are to be pitied.

Chilling article. Thought-provoking.

Unless, of course, you're the typical Freeper/right-wing nutjob that trolls progressive websites like this one.

Did someone post a rant about those "19 Arabs" that attacked us on that warm September morning? And claimed Bush attacked the "perpetrators" with "zeal"?! And Clinton had done nothing?

Reality check time.

The WTC was bombed in 1993 too. Remember? Under Clinton. And where are the ringleaders of that plot? IN JAIL. Paying for their crimes. How were they captured? Good old criminal investigation. POLICE WORK. No torture required. Who knew that one could get results that way?!

And no, I'm not a Clinton apologist; I never want another Southerner in the White House ever again (and I'm Southern!), especially a right-leaning "centrist" Democrat pretending he's progressive and "feel[s] [my] pain". But his FBI did its work properly and we got the jerks that first attacked the WTC back in '93.

Of the 19 hijackers on that fateful 2001 day, 15 were-- get ready-- SAUDIS. And ALL WERE IN THE US LEGALLY, WITH VALID VISAS. And, while we're reviewing the known facts, NONE WAS IRAQI. And for good measure, THERE'S NO REAL PROOF THAT OSAMA BIN LADEN HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH 9/11. Just his word-- or at least the soundtrack of one of his cave videos and maybe a press release or two. The FBI won't list 9/11 as a reason they want ObL on his Most Wanted poster, since they can't prove he masterminded it (which leads to the disturbing question: Well, who did?...).

(And by the way-- is anyone else bothered that the faces of the hijackers were on the TV within an hour of the attacks?!?!?)

Bush attacked Afghanistan for their support of ObL. Let's see: WE DIDN'T GET HIM. WE'RE STUCK THERE, STILL LOSING SOLDIERS. The Taliban is happily resurgent in that country. Opium production is back in full swing.

Mission Accomplished, Chimpy and Lumpy!

Bush attacked Iraq for.... Well, after all the bogus arguments and hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqis and thousands of dead "coalition" soldiers (mostly Americans, thank you GWB!), the only logical reason left is: Bush attacked Iraq to keep Iraqi oil off world markets and to enrich his oil-company (and security company) buddies.

Mission Accomplished Again, Smirks and Grimace!

Right now the only thing Bush is attacking with "zeal" is the US economy. Oh, and the US Constitution. Our experiment in democracy is now dying a death by a thousand signing statements.

One last thought: Waterboarding is torture. The US said it was torture when it was used against US soldiers during World War II. Someone who says "Waterboarding is BAD when the Japanese use it, but just fine when WE use it!" is expressing a moral relativism bordering on sociopathy. Which is what I think authoritarianism ultimately leads to.

I'm shocked. SHOCKED.

A Republican candidate with anti-gay views? A Southern Baptist minister who expresses regressive, stupid opinions regarding the "homosexual lifestyle"?! A right-winger coming out as opposed to TEH GAY?!?

Lead me to my fainting couch...!

Oh well. Like a dead mackerel, exposure of Mike Huckabee and his record to light and air will expose his overwhelming hateful stench. Like Giuliani's. Or Romney's. Or Tancredo's. Or....

Bad times to be a Republican, I'd say.

I see they still lurk around progressive websites trying to stir the pot with their usual witless talking points and overall stupidity.

Marriage, my dear idiot, is a contract between TWO ADULTS governing rights and responsibilities of combining their households into one, caring for one another and providing for one another at death. The government can limit the number of participants, since it is in the society at large's best interest that spouses have equal footing in the arrangement, something that cannot be guaranteed (and de facto never occurs) in a polygamous relationship.

Now ol' Chucklebee...! To say the Bible is the unchanging word of one God is laughable. Three words supporting my assertion: "King James Version". A lot of oppressive, unjust bullshit got written into that version-- and I bet God, if She exists, is plenty pissed off.