January 12, 2015 5:56 AM

Greetings from The People's Republic of Dumf--kistan: Bigotry is not a Christian value

(Thanks to Theo Kaht)

This is Texas State Representative Cecil Bell. Cecil is a freshman in the legislature and represents a district just north of Houston. He’s also incompetent, ignorant of basic law, and is so afraid of same sex marriage that he has filed what is probably the most ridiculous bill of the 2015 legislative session. (But the year is young.)

Of course, this is the Texas Legislature we’re talking about, so the idea of declaring a bill to be the “most ridiculous” bill of the 2015 session in early January is nothing if not premature…not that Bell’s bill won’t prove to be a worthy candidate for the (dis)honor.

Having evidently solved all pressing problems facing the Lone Star State, hyper-Jesus-y religious reprobates have been freed up to subvert the Constitution in the name of their flavor of God. And, when you hate Teh Gayz Just. That. Much…well, you’re willing to do just about anything, even if it means passes patently unconstitutional laws, to protect the sanctity of your fourth marriage.

Praise God and pass the AstroGlide!!!

Just how much does Cecil Bell](http://www.house.state.tx.us/members/member-page/?district=3)** fear Teh Gayz and their evil Homosexual Agenda? Enough to legislate them into oblivion:

In the unlikely event that Representative Asshole’s bill becomes law, it would:

  • Force the state of Texas to ignore any federal laws or court rulings that would cause GLBT citizens to receive equal treatment under the law.

  • Prohibit funding of anything having to do with issuing marriage licenses to same sex couples, or recognizing legally married couples from other states.

  • Prohibit paying the salary of any state employee that recognizes, grants, or enforces a same-sex marriage license. In addition to losing their income, any state employee who dares to violate Representative Asshole’s edict will also lose their pension and health insurance.

  • Direct all Texas courts to automatically dismiss any law suit that challenges the nutjobbery contained in Representative Asshole’s hate filled bill, and forces the plaintiff to pay all court costs.

Congratulations Cecil. You are a sorry excuse for a human being, and more than qualified to receive the Asshole Of The Week award.

http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/84R/billtext/pdf/HB00623I.pdf

Bell would essentially declare Texas to be a sovereign anti-gay state, a veritable Shining City of Hate dedicated to eradicating Teh Gayz and their evil, icky Homosexual Agenda. Hailing from Magnolia, not exactly a bastion of Liberalism and tolerance…much less Christian love and charity, Bell is simply dancing with them what brung him, preaching to a decidedly anti-gay choir. A sixth-generation Texan, Bell knows that hating on homosexuals (of which there are OH SO MANY in Waller County) is the perfect way to convince his constituents that he’s one of them.

‘Course, there’s a decided difference between being rabidly anti-gay and attempting to codify that unvarnished enmity into statute law…AND including in that law a provision that would withhold salary and benefits from anyone with the temerity to grant a same-sex marriage license.

What’s truly sad is that Texas is fertile soil for haters who call themselves Christians even as they actively to work to oppress other human beings in very un-Christian ways. Cecil Bell is just another hypocrite who conflates hatred and Christianity and then claims to be doing the Lord’s work.

Hmm…I wasn’t aware that hatred, homophobia, and discrimination were Christian values, though they certainly seem to be TEXAS values, at least according to the inestimable Friends of Cecil Bell, Jr.:

The constitutional right to define marriage is clearly a power which Texas and Texans have reserved and have affirmed in the Texas Constitution. The “Supremacy Clause” as Article VI Paragraph 2 of the US Constitution is known, predates the 10th Amendment which was ratified Dec 15, 1791 to clarify the intent of the authors of the Constitution that the federal government possesses only those powers delegated to it by the states or the people. On Nov 8, 2005 Texans voted to define and to regulate marriage asserting that the power to define marriage belongs to Texas, adding a new provision to the Texas Constitution, Article 1, Section 32, which provides that “Marriage in this state shall consist only of the union of one man and one woman,” and “This state or a political subdivision of this state may not create or recognize any legal status identical or similar to marriage.” Specific to the question of marriage, SCOTUS has affirmed that the “definition and regulation of marriage” is “within the authority and realm of the separate States. The federal government and federal courts have no authority to interfere with the sovereign right of Texans to define marriage as being between a man and a woman. HB 623 established statutory provisions to make certain that the power of Texans to define marriage is not usurped by state agency or by overreaching federal intrusion into the right of the state. The people and the state of Texas have clearly retained the power to define marriage. Federal courts are not law makers. GOD BLESS TEXAS!

Hmm…so “The people and the state of Texas have clearly retained the power to define marriage,” which in this case should be taken to mean that the people and the state of Texas have affirmed bigotry, homophobia, and hatred to be core values. Classy, eh?

What I find truly interesting is that these self-declared Conservatives are the first to demand that government get off their backs when it does something they don’t like. Yet they have no problem with using government to curtail the rights and liberties of a minority class when it suits their purpose and prejudice. They’re all about freedom and liberty as far as it pertains to good, God-fearing, White, Conservative, and Christian heterosexuals…and yet they’d happily strip freedom and liberty from others.

I don’t know about you; but freedom and liberty either is or it isn’t. You shouldn’t be able to pick and choose who gets to enjoy the rights of citizenship simply because you object to their lifestyle or who and/or how they love. Human rights shouldn’t be subject to the will of a prejudiced majority, no matter what sort of legal doublespeak your wrap your bigotry in.

Regardless of what the Friends of Cecil Bell, Jr. believe, they don’t occupy the moral high ground. Using the law to codify your right to discriminate is as immoral as it is abusive of the rule of law. And they sure as high don’t get to employ the patently unconstitutional nullification strategy when it comes to federal laws they don’t like. You don’t get to pick and choose which laws you obey, and you sure as Hell don’t get to subject a basic human right to the whims of your sick, twisted definition of your legal “rights.” Bigotry is not a legal right, nor is designating a minority class as second-class. Nor is smug self-superiority justification for your belief that you’ve the right to determine the “proper” definition of love.

I don’t know a kind way of saying this, so I’ll just say it; these people make me sick. Is it any wonder I’m grateful I no longer live in Texas??

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