Al Gore’s Political Ties to Fred Phelps of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas. Yes, that Westboro Baptist Church. The same bunch who protests at soldier’s funerals and runs the website God Hates Fags. This must be where the Reverend Al of the Church of Global Warming learned his trade. Can I get a Hallelujah?
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MOTHER JONES??????? When are you going to get some decent citations, instead of absolute crap that the editors of the sites themselves don't believe?
Oh Olivia!!!
Gore, who was quoted by the Nashville Tennessean in 1984 saying homosexuality is not "an acceptable alternative that society should affirm" and said in his 1984 US Senate race that he would not accept money from gay rights organizations and that he opposed a "gay bill of rights," reportedly sought the support of the Phelps family in his 1988 presidential campaign, and invited the Phelpses to the Clinton-Gore inaugurations of January 1993 and January 1997.
Please come defend your boy Gore!!
Oh Olivia!!!
Gore, who was quoted by the Nashville Tennessean in 1984 saying homosexuality is not “an acceptable alternative that society should affirm” and said in his 1984 US Senate race that he would not accept money from gay rights organizations and that he opposed a “gay bill of rights,” reportedly sought the support of the Phelps family in his 1988 presidential campaign, and invited the Phelpses to the Clinton-Gore inaugurations of January 1993 and January 1997.
Please come defend your boy Gore!!
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Why should I defend him on this stance, when I don't agree with it, and didn't agree with it back then, either?
But, based on comments made by Fred Phelps while picketing Gore Sr's funeral, Gore Jr had changed his mind about gay rights (as many other Americans have) in the meantime:
It's December 8 in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, the day of the funeral for Al Gore Sr., a former senator and the vice president's father. Gore has earned Phelps' ire because, according to Phelps, his son "sold his soul to the fag agenda." http://motherjones.com/politics/1999/03/man-who-loves-hate
By the way, Poopajoe, how do YOU feel about gay rights? Sounds as if you take quite a liberal stance on this issue, if you're looking to demonize Gore for his onetime declared opposition to it.
I have no problem with anyone being gay. I have a gay cousin, gay friends, and I used to have a business in a gay community. What they do in the privacy of their homes is no concern of mine.
I do however, believe that marriage is between a man and a woman.
So am I to assume that at least in the eyes of WBC, that "fags" cause "global warming/climate change"?
Hallelujah, Amen!
The Phelps have a different name for climate warming...
Politics makes strange (ahem) bedfellows. I wonder who feels worse today about their past relationship, The Goracle or the Phelps? Perhaps ol' Fred could start a new campaign: http://www.GodHatesPoliticalWhores.com and protest Al's next global warming/climate change event.