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Thursday, July 21, 2011
(notice I left out FUCKING on the tittle) You will still be able to discriminate and spew hatred even if DOMA is repealed
If you are following this DOMA crap then you may have seen how Senator Franken when he carved a new hole into this asshole, who was already a full-fledged ass before he got to the hearings on DOMA.
The asshole we are talking about is FOTF's Minnery who admits they are full of shitz...
Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) Took Focus on the Family’s Tom Minnery to the confession booth today. After Minnery was bitch slapped by Al Franken, Minnery admitted during questioning by Leahy that that children living with same-sex parents are hindered by the lack of legal protections and benefits that are denied to them by DOMA:
LEAHY: Are they not disadvantaged by not having the same financial benefits that an opposite sex family would have?
MINNERY: Well, as I say, not knowing the details of which families you are speaking off, certainly children are better off with parents in the home.
LEAHY: Yes or no, it’s not a trick question — if you have parents legally married under the laws of the state — one set of parents are entitled to certain financial benefits for their children, the other set of parents are denied those same financial benefits for their children…are not those children of the second family, are they not at a disadvantage, yes or no?
MINNERY: That would be yes, as you asked the question earlier Senator.
Senior Vice President for Public Policy of Focus on the Family Thomas Minnery (3rd L) waits for the beginning of a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee July 20, 2011 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. He is said to be surrounded by his contingency of bigoted lawyers and bible pushers (Alex Wong / Getty Images)
Al Franken had a good time Wednesday in a Senate hearing on repealing DOMA. Testifying before him was Thomas Minnery of Focus on the Family, one of the pillars of the anti-gay quasi-religious establishment. Says Elizabeth Titus of Politico: “Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., took on a Focus on the Family executive at a hearing on same-sex marriage Wednesday, challenging the validity of the witness' testimony. ‘I frankly don't really know how we can trust the rest of your testimony if you are reading studies this way,’ Franken told Thomas Minnery of Focus on the Family, the conservative Colorado-based group that opposes same-sex marriage. The study in question, published by a division of the U.S. Health and Human Services Department in 2010, found better health outcomes among children in nuclear families — a point Minnery, senior vice president for public policy, said means children are better off with straight, married parents. But Franken pointed out that the study's definition of ‘nuclear family’ does not specify the gender of the parents in such families, suggesting a lack of evidence that same-sex couples' kids are less healthy than the children of straight couples. ‘Sen. Franken is right,’ the lead author of the study told Politico.”
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