# Stupid Republican idea of the day **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 26, 2009, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897 "2009-03-26T18:48:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1126
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2015, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22502 "2015-06-26T16:06:36Z")
It was a turkey baster, dammit. She had an accident with a turkey baster. She really loves those things. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2015, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22503 "2015-06-26T16:10:22Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > It was a turkey baster, dammit. She had an accident with a turkey baster. She really loves those things. I am _NOT_ have Thanksgiving dinner at her house. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2015, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22504 "2015-06-26T16:33:23Z")
If by some unfortunate turn of events Sarah Palin had become president, there’d be no Thanksgiving turkey-pardons because that only coddles criminals. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2015, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22505 "2015-06-26T17:07:12Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > Can one be relentlessly straight, or is it only gays that can be relentless? Sure, we can even be dogged and ruthless. (I wonder where Ruth went?) ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2015, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22506 "2015-06-26T19:20:18Z")
In the wake of today’s SCOTUS ruling extending marriage rights to everyone, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has stated that state officials may withold benefits from same sex couples if it violates their religious beliefs. > **[Abbott tells agencies to prioritize religious freedom in wake of same-sex ruling](https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/texas/article/Abbott-order-6351661.php)** > > Hours after the U.S. Supreme Court legalized same sex marriage across the country on... They are going to fight this, kicking and screaming, every damned inch of the way. They’ll try every damned stalling tactic and loophole they can find. They’ll eventually lose, but only after wasting a lot of tax dollars in the fight. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2015, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22507 "2015-06-26T19:31:46Z")
From the “unnecessary laws for the sake of political theater” category: “GOP bill would shield TN pastors from same-sex weddings” [http://www.knoxnews.com/news/state/gop-bill-would-shield-tn-pastors-from-samesex-weddings\_06229039](http://www.knoxnews.com/news/state/gop-bill-would-shield-tn-pastors-from-samesex-weddings_06229039) > [@](#): > > NASHVILLE — Two Tennessee Republican state legislators announced Friday that they are drafting a bill to shield Tennessee clergy from having to perform same-sex marriages and churches from having to host same-sex wedding ceremonies. > > State Reps. Bryan Terry, R-Murfreesboro, and Andy Holt, R-Dresden, said they will co-sponsor a “Tennessee Pastor Protection Act” for presentation to the 2016 legislative session, which opens next January. No Senate sponsor has been identified, and legislation must win approval in both chambers to become law. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2015, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22508 "2015-06-26T19:39:47Z")
Damn shame! Just think of all those gay people just _itching_ to force someone to perform a wedding ceremony when they didn’t want to! What could bring more joy to that special occasion than having the wedding solemnized by somebody who hates your guts! ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2015, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22509 "2015-06-26T19:41:15Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > In the wake of today’s SCOTUS ruling extending marriage rights to everyone, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has stated that state officials may withold benefits from same sex couples if it violates their religious beliefs. > [http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/texas/article/Abbott-order-6351661.php](http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/texas/article/Abbott-order-6351661.php) > They are going to fight this, kicking and screaming, every damned inch of the way. They’ll try every damned stalling tactic and loophole they can find. They’ll eventually lose, but only after wasting a lot of tax dollars in the fight. I’m trying to envision a state bureaucrat in charge of signing…let’s say, pension checks … stopping short on a particular form. “Hold on. The deceased is named Steve, and the beneficiary is named Fred! [swoons, fans self] I cannot in good conscience sign this check! My right to practice my religion is being infringed!” ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2015, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22510 "2015-06-26T19:44:42Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > I’m trying to envision a state bureaucrat in charge of signing…let’s say, pension checks … stopping short on a particular form. “Hold on. The deceased is named Steve, and the beneficiary is named Fred! [swoons, fans self] I cannot in good conscience sign this check! My right to practice my religion is being infringed!” You joke, but that’s exactly what they want to allow, and you know there’ll be at least a small number who try it. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2015, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22511 "2015-06-26T19:45:31Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > It was a turkey baster, dammit. She had an accident with a turkey baster. She really loves those things. Something like those guys who have to go to the ER after falling on the vacuum cleaner, penis first? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2015, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22512 "2015-06-26T19:46:50Z")
I just wanted to pop in share my gleeful anticipation of a huge burst, a blossoming you might say, of stupid Republican ideas in the coming weeks. These court decisions are going to blow their fucking minds. ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2015, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22513 "2015-06-26T19:48:30Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > From the “unnecessary laws for the sake of political theater” category: > “GOP bill would shield TN pastors from same-sex weddings” > [http://www.knoxnews.com/news/state/gop-bill-would-shield-tn-pastors-from-samesex-weddings\_06229039](http://www.knoxnews.com/news/state/gop-bill-would-shield-tn-pastors-from-samesex-weddings_06229039) He’s following Tx Gov Greg Abbott’s lead. [Recently, he held a ceremonial signing of the _Pastor Protection Act_,](http://www.texasobserver.org/abbott-mollifies-base-with-pastor-protection-act-ceremony/) ensuring no clergyman would be forced to marry a gay couple. Of course, current law _already_ allows a pastor to refuse to marry anyone–for any reason. > [@](#): > > Equality Texas withdrew its opposition to the Pastor Protection Act, which had been championed by anti-LGBT groups, after it was narrowed to apply only to wedding ceremonies. And it passed the House 141-2, with support from the two openly LGBT representatives. However, after more than 20 anti-LGBT proposals filed in the 84th Legislature all died, Abbott may feel the need to break off some red meat for the GOP base, however lean. > > Some members of that base have demanded that Abbott—who vigorously defended the marriage amendment as attorney general—call a special session to revive a bill aimed at undermining the high court’s likely ruling. But Abbott, apparently realizing the potentially harmful economic consequences, says he doesn’t plan to do so. > > House Speaker Joe Straus, in what was a rare public mention of LGBT issues for him, alluded to those consequences Tuesday, when asked by The Texas Tribune‘s Evan Smith about the demise of anti-gay marriage legislation. > > “On some of the volatile issues that you mention, the fact that we weren’t jumping headlong into that, and to kind of blow up the session with these very emotionally volatile issues, the fact that we didn’t do that I think is a good thing in terms of the perception of Texas, in terms of our ability to attract talent from out of state and around the word,” Straus said. “We’re out there trying to bring the world’s best scholars to Texas, the best researchers, the best doctors, the best businesses. … I think our record of being thoughtful and deliberate about the most emotional issues was appropriate and a good thing in the long term for our state.” Of course Straus is Republican. [He’s also the state’s first Jewish House Speaker…](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Straus) ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2015, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22514 "2015-06-26T19:48:52Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > From the “unnecessary laws for the sake of political theater” category: > “GOP bill would shield TN pastors from same-sex weddings” > [http://www.knoxnews.com/news/state/gop-bill-would-shield-tn-pastors-from-samesex-weddings\_06229039](http://www.knoxnews.com/news/state/gop-bill-would-shield-tn-pastors-from-samesex-weddings_06229039) I hope they include protections from Christian pastors being forced to perform Jewish and Muslim weddings as well. It’s terrible all the weddings clergy are forced to perform against their will. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2015, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22515 "2015-06-26T19:49:21Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > That she pledged to be abstinent and yet got pregnant out of wedlock for a second time is unfortunate. > > That she tells other people to be abstinent and yet got pregnant out of wedlock for a second time is hypocritical. > > \*\*That she has made over a quarter of a million dollars promoting abstinence-only education \*\*and yet got pregnant out of wedlock for a second time is a fucking travesty. Travesty, that’s what she’s gonna name the kid. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2015, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22516 "2015-06-26T20:01:26Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > Travesty, that’s what she’s gonna name the kid. I see Travesty growing up to eventual gender identification as male, becoming Travis, and then having a reality show. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2015, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22517 "2015-06-26T20:59:47Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Well, that didn’t take long - [Fox News is explaining how the Supreme Court has now made it legal for three people to get married.](http://mediamatters.org/video/2015/06/26/foxs-martha-maccallum-on-marriage-equality-deci/204167) Screaming leaps of unsupported conjecture, brought to you by blonde bimbos, Faux News - who’d a guessed. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2015, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22518 "2015-06-26T21:21:20Z")
For those who think Huckabee is one of the more reasonable GOP candidates: > [@](#): > > Mike Huckabee warns that the country is “moving rapidly toward the criminalization of Christianity.” … > > Ted Cruz portrays the rapid of advance gay rights and other forms of social change as assaults on Christianity. Bobby Jindal complains that President Obama and other liberals are more tolerant of Islamic terrorists than wholesome, God-fearing traditional Christians here in the United States. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2015, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22519 "2015-06-26T22:10:09Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > Travesty, that’s what she’s gonna name the kid. I think you just won the thread. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2015, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22520 "2015-06-27T00:16:43Z")
Ted Cruz wants to be able to vote out supreme court justices. I just saw the headline so I don’t know if he meant just him and just the ones he doesn’t like. ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2015, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22521 "2015-06-27T00:18:26Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > I just wanted to pop in share my gleeful anticipation of a huge burst, a blossoming you might say, of stupid Republican ideas in the coming weeks. These court decisions are going to blow their fucking minds. [_Salon_ reports on the ever-reliable:](http://www.salon.com/2015/06/26/ted_cruz_goes_berserk_over_scotus_rulings_some_of_the_darkest_24_hours_in_our_nations_history/?utm_source=Tumblr&utm_medium=Tumblr%20Share&utm_campaign=Tumblr) > [@](#): > > Ted Cruz is in full Ted Cruz mode following Supreme Court rulings late this week affirming Obamacare insurance subsidies and legalizing gay marriage nationwide. > > “Today, it’s some of the darkest 24 hours in our nation’s history,” Cruz told Sean Hannity on his radio program. > > Slamming the rulings as “naked and shameless judicial activism,” the Texas senator and 2016 GOP presidential candidate promised to continue his crusade for repeal of the health care reform law signed by President Obama in 2010, and touted his proposed constitutional amendment to allow states to ban same-sex marriage. Really? 9/11? December 7th? Several assassinations? Various natural disasters? This is the worst? He’s an attorney who’s dealt with the Supremes. Now he’s forgotten just how the Constitution works. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1125) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1127)