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Hateful rhetoric doesn't make you a Christian
I could say many things about Vicky Hartzler (R-MO), but they’d be mean and nasty (and well-deserved). I don’t like to start with hateful words, especially when she’s done a bang-up job of that herself.
If you’re reduced to crying on the House floor in an appeal for others to join you in your hatred and homophobia, you’re something special. And I don’t mean that in a good way- especially when your nephew came out to you this past February. That you could push legislation that would harm someone you love shows that your ideology is worth more to you than your family. And that truly is some special sort of ideological sickness, don’tchathink? Especially when you go out of your way to mischaracterize the bill in order to gain support for your misguided homophobia.
I can’t help but wonder what drives Rep. Hartzler to the point that she’d cry on the House floor as she emotionally appeals for her colleagues to join her in discriminating against those whose lifestyle in no way harms her. What is it about the LGBTQ community that drives her over the edge? Outside of her nephew, does she even know anyone who’s LGBTQ?
And perhaps she could use a teddy bear to tell us where the bad people touched her?
“Compared trans Patriots to ISIS?” How sick does one have to be…ah, don’t get me started. I think Rep. Hartzler and her fellow American Taliban Christians have far more in common with ISIS than transgender Patriots.
It’s easy to hate something you don’t, can’t, and/or refuse to understand. Perhaps if she could be bothered to take the time to meet and get to know LGBTQ people she’d realize that they’re PEOPLE who happen to be LGBTQ. A person’s sexuality is a small part of their whole. Rep. Hartzler may be heterosexual, but that doesn’t define who she is. So why should someone being LGBTQ have that as the most significant and most apparent label they wear?
And why must the person one loves and wants to commit their life to be a matter of concern to anyone but the people involved in the relationship?
Before Rep. Vicky Hartzler became a member of Congress, she was the face of the movement in Missouri to ban gay marriage. She traveled across the state in 2004, urging Missourians to add an amendment to the state constitution defining marriage as between a man and a woman.
Eighteen years later, as Congress prepared to enshrine same-sex marriage into federal law on Thursday, Hartzler broke into tears.
Long an advocate for traditional social conservatism, the western Missouri congresswoman spent one of her final days in office watching her colleagues deliver a final blow against the anti-same sex marriage position she had longed advocated. Hartzler, who has been in Congress since 2011, will leave in January after an unsuccessful campaign for U.S. Senate.
“This is yet another step toward the Democrats goal of dismantling the traditional family, silencing voices of faith and permanently undoing our country’s God-woven foundation,” Hartzler said in a speech before the vote. “I hope and pray that my colleagues will find the courage to join me in opposing this misguided and dangerous bill.”
Of course, when Hartzler’s Twitter bio reads, “Christian. Wife. Mother. Life-Long Conservative. U.S. Congresswoman. Sanctioned by the Chinese Communist Party,” hatred and homophobia come with the territory.
And don’tcha LOVE how she has the “Christian” part front and center? Like most Conservative Republicans, Vicky Hartzler is about as much a Christian as I am Leonel Messi in my spare time. She loves publicly proclaiming her faith, but she lives it like Marjorie Trailer Greene campaigns against Walgreens and CVS selling buttplugs.
Wait…they’re selling buttplugs now? That’s going to make the weekends a whole lot easier for some folks, eh?
Thankfully, come January 20th, Vicky Hartzler will be out of Congress. So, there will be one less bigot on Capitol Hill, but the Republican Caucus will hardly miss a beat. If there’s one thing not lacking in Congress, it’s Republican bigots, racists, and homophobes. Hartzler’s absence will cause nary a disturbance in the Force.
Does Rep. Hartzler really think Jesus Christ would’ve busted an artery over same-sex marriage? Wasn’t he ALL about love? And tolerance, acceptance, understanding, and kindness- all things “Christians” like Rep. Hartzler seem to know precious little about.
The appropriateness or inappropriateness of a loving, committed relationship is not within the authority of the GOP to define. It’s simply none of their damned business. So it fascinates me (and not in a good way) that the “party of small government” demands that their definition of love be the only acceptable choice under the law.
Trade her for Paul Whelan? Now there’s an idea; has anyone talked to the Russians?
The spectacle of Rep. Hartzler hate-crying on the House floor is about as pathetic as it gets, especially for someone who claims to follow the teachings of Jesus Christ. What a sad, sorry excuse for a Christian.
The idea of crying because a person would be allowed to marry someone they love is truly astonishing. That this person might happen to be of the same gender shouldn’t matter to anyone. The heart wants what it wants, and as long as no one is getting hurt, what’s the problem? Rep. Hartzler and the rest of the Republican Hypocrite Caucus don’t have to like it, but it’s none of their damned business.
If you oppose same-sex marriage, don’t marry someone of the same sex. However, that opposition doesn’t give you the right to encode your bigotry and homophobia into federal law. Same-sex marriage harms no one, and besides, you’d think the government would have a significant interest in promoting stable, loving, long-term relationships. The benefits of those relationships are well-established.
I’d much rather see people like Andrew Hartzler, gay-married and all, running the world than hateful shrews and hypocrites like Vicky Hartzler, whose dessicated coal-black heart should earn her a reserved parking space in Hell.
