Wasting time, exploiting hate: The return of the anti-gay marriage amendment

House MAJORITY Leader = co-sponsor (0.00 / 0)

This is yet another reason why Brent Boggs (D-Braxton) should have never been put into a leadership position.

Brent Boggs and Speaker Rick Thompson single-handedly block any effort for the House to vote on SB238 last year, though the bill had passed the WV Senate.

Brent Boggs and Rick Thompson represent what is wrong with the WV Legislature and why this State remains in the dark ages.

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by: WV26003 @ Thu Feb 11, 2010 at 21:59:08 PM UTC

Remember this??? (0.00 / 0)

Mike Oliverio, Brent Boggs and the Family Policy Council
Our state senator and the House Majority Leader were apparently getting important information from the most active anti-gay organization in the state (if they do anything else, I've missed those news stories) at Stonewall. Boggs is well-known as an ally of theirs, and Oliverio of course often leans right, though I'm not aware of him being quite as close to Jeremy Dys and his backers. Though that said, if the following is as critical as Oliverio is willing to be of Dys, it doesn't bode well.

http://www.bloodlesscoup.com/b...

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by: WV26003 @ Thu Feb 11, 2010 at 22:03:19 PM UTC

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Hate (4.00 / 3)

Word is that in an intense Democrat caucus last week, House members in touch with the party platform opened up a can of whup ass on the handful of members of their own party who want to run on our ticket but serve as right wing republicans. Boggs is said to have been seen pouting afterward. Kudos to those who spoke up!
This nonsense won't help a single issue that West Virginians are actually worried about.

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by: bluebird @ Thu Feb 11, 2010 at 22:17:18 PM UTC

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Let's not forget gubernatorial wannabe, Bob "Democrats for Underwood" Plymale, D-Wayne, who in 2006 brought in the crazies at the American Family Association to write the legislation.
He gave this out-of-state rightwing group access, even after AFA did things like attacking the families of the Sago miners and praising Hurricane Katrina for destroying New Orleans.

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by: heath_harrison @ Thu Feb 11, 2010 at 23:03:54 PM UTC

Coalocrat wedgies. (4.00 / 2)

QUESTION: Why would a rightwinger like J.G. Dys push a debate on whether or not to put gay marriage to a vote in WV when it's already illegal?

ANSWER: Because the whole coalocrat agenda is to push wedge issues and avoid pissing off coal operatos.

WV is one of the most resource-rich states in the nation, yet poverty and death are at epidemic proportions across WV's coalfields. Meanwhile, J G Dys feeds wingnut wedge issues to Gov. Manchin, H. Truman Chapin, Joe Minard, and others to avoid facing peer reviewed research which revealss:

"Coal mining areas in Appalachia experience almost 11,000 more deaths each year compared with comparable areas elsewhere in the nation, with approximately 2,300 of those deaths related to environmental factors such as air and water pollution made worse by mining

"Those who are falling ill and dying young are not just the coal miners," Hendryx says. "Everyone who lives near the mines or processing plants or transportation centers is affected by chronic socioeconomic weakness that takes a toll in longevity and health"

According to the recent opinion piece in the Coalpatch Gazette by Dys,

This summer, legislators heard from a variety of experts on the topic at a standing-room-only hearing. At that hearing, former Delegate Carrie Webster indicated that it was essentially the job of the Legislature to protect West Virginians from themselves. She posed an interesting hypothetical question to me. "What if," she said, "we took a poll next year that indicated 90 percent of West Virginians wanted to vote to reinstitute slavery. Should we let them?"

Although he attempts to reduce it to an apples-and-oranges question, one on line commenter whose screen name is galileo made the following interesting Biblical connection, posting

Pharisee Dys tries to gloss over Carrie Webster's point about slavery. Note that Leviticus is the part of the Bible rightwingers use to justify their highly paid homophobic lobbying. Yet Leviticus also states:

"Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves. You may also buy some of the temporary residents living among you and members of their clans born in your country, and they will become your property."

The use of that particular book of the Old Testament is quite revealing since the use of wedge issues is what the "Conservative Agenda" uses to keep West Virginians in poverty while draining us of all our natural resources.

REAL Christians follow Jesus' teachings. The Pharisees used the Old Testament to kill Him, desperately trying to preserve their own power!

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by: One Citizen @ Fri Feb 12, 2010 at 07:20:53 AM UTC