Hate in the Mainstream
Remarkable quotes from people who ought to know better including Pat Robertson, Barbara聽 Espinosa, Nanette Billings, Ron Reale and others.
鈥淸T]he union of two men doesn鈥檛 bring forth anything except disease and suffering, and the same thing with the union of two women.鈥�
鈥擡vangelical preacher PAT ROBERTSON, on the May 15 episode of the Christian Broadcasting Network鈥檚 鈥淭he 700 Club鈥�
鈥淚 don鈥檛 believe in calling him the first black president 鈥� I call him the first monkey president. I voted for the white guy myself.鈥�
鈥擯hoenix KFNX host BARBARA ESPINOSA, in comments on her 鈥淗air on Fire鈥� radio show first publicized on June 16 that she later said couldn鈥檛 be racist because of her last name
鈥測ou are an idiot. 鈥� Do you know you cant procreate right? Well thank goodness for that.鈥�
鈥擭ANETTE BILLINGS, wife of Washington County (Utah) Republican Party Chairman Willie Billings, to openly gay GOP presidential candidate Fred Karger in a June 16 E-mail she later added to by saying Karger was only running to 鈥渇ind more [sexual] partners鈥�
鈥淚f putting illegal children in school is now the ticket illegals are depending on to continue their rape of America, then someone has to put a stop to it.鈥�
鈥擝logger RON REALE, in a June 20 commentary posted at the Center for Western Journalism, known for spawning the conspiracy-minded WorldNetDaily 鈥渘ews鈥� site
鈥淲e are much like the Titanic as we inbreed millions of Mexico鈥檚 poor, the world鈥檚 poor and we watch our country sink.鈥�
鈥擱ecalled Arizona state Senate President RUSSELL PEARCE, the author of the state鈥檚 punishing anti-immigrant S.B. 1070 law, in a 2007 E-mail publicized by the ACLU on July 17
鈥淟iberals and ethnic activists boast about how America would be better if it were more Latino, but no one else is allowed to say, 鈥榃e like the ethnic mix as it is.鈥欌��
鈥擱ight-wing author ANN COULTER, who in the same July 18 blog post wrote that California had been 鈥渄estroyed鈥� by the loss of a white majority in 2000
鈥淧ut troops on the border and start shooting. I bet that solves our immigration problem real quick.鈥�
鈥擮hio鈥檚 SAMUEL WURZELBACHER, better known as Obama critic 鈥淛oe the Plumber,鈥� in Aug. 11 comments at a rally in Prescott, Ariz.
鈥淚slam is systematically violent and hateful. 鈥� 鈥楥ommon humanity鈥� should reject the murderous, perverted teachings and actions of Mohammed.鈥�
鈥擜 Sept. 17 essay from the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission, whose founder and president is GARY CASS, seeming to contradict the group鈥檚 own name
