# 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:** 640
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12781 "2014-02-13T16:27:40Z")
Can’t they just cure the gay first, and then treat them for whatever else is ailing them? There, problem solved, you’re welcome! ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12782 "2014-02-13T16:32:51Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > Uh, yeah…and wouldn’t that also be a violation of the Hippocratic Oath? Not only the Hippocratic, but the Hypocritic, the Hippocampus, the Hippopotamus and the Hypno-Campy. Seriously, it violates every oath and value that exists. ---
**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:** [February 13, 2014, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12783 "2014-02-13T18:16:40Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > State licensing boards do generally require physicians to treat patients as they come, though. If a person shows up bleeding and mangled, in need of immediate care, does the doctor find out whether they are a suitable candidate for treatment before touching them? How much effort would go into determining a potential patient’s moral suitability? Because, you know, them gays, some of them can hide it good. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12784 "2014-02-13T18:24:38Z")
Similar to the Idaho bill is this [Kansas bill](http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2014/02/13/kansas_anti_gay_segregation_bill_is_an_abomination.html). The [Slate.com](http://Slate.com) article explains how abhorrently terrible this bill is. It basically codifies discrimination into every aspect of life. Don’t want to serve in a restaurant? Don’t have to. Don’t like gays coming to your theater, kick them out. Doctors don’t want to treat gays, let them die! Police officers thinks gays are evil? _Don’t respond to them!_ Sure, its supposed to be targeted at gay couples in pre-emptive defense of any kind of gay marriage laws being overturned there, but its written so broadly that anyone who thinks any gay support may be somehow, someway, indirectly related to a gay relationship or something similar gets to opt out of dealing with gays, and if the gays sue, they’ll lose and they have to pay the legal bills of the other side! These are people who presumably lived through the Civil Rights Era, right? Or have learned about it? Apparently the lesson they took from the Rosa Parks was “She can’t complain if they don’t let her on the bus in the first place”. Of all the sickeningly disgusting, hateful things being made into law by the shithead GOP, this has got to be near the top. I can’t imagine undeservedly hating a group so much that you make laws forcing them into harassment and unable to live their lives normally at all. The only good thing about this is that I’m sure that some group like the ACLU will litigate this pro bono for a gay couple and it will be completely overturned. Fucking assholes, the lot of them in Kansas :mad: ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12785 "2014-02-13T18:59:51Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > These are people who presumably lived through the Civil Rights Era, right? Or have learned about it? The lesson they learned was they lost that round and they don’t want to lose this one. > [@YogSosoth](#): > > I can’t imagine undeservedly hating a group so much that you make laws forcing them into harassment and unable to live their lives normally at all. You know who else made laws forcing a group into harassment and unable to live their lives normally at all? ---
**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:** [February 13, 2014, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12786 "2014-02-13T19:06:50Z")
Joan Rivers? ---
**Author:** ![CannyDan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cannydan/32/548_2.png) [@CannyDan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CannyDan)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12787 "2014-02-13T20:06:29Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Joan Rivers? Alright, I admit – I LOL’ed. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12788 "2014-02-13T22:42:03Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > That can be somewhat defended, and on non-partisan grounds. There is something of a tradition of protest voting on the debt ceiling, when one is certain that it will pass, one can indulge oneself in a display of courage/extremism. Dems have done it, often enough. > o > Nothing wrong with \*kabuki \*theater in politics, drama can outline and simplify the conflicts into digestible terms. So this kind of _sturm and drama_ is legit, so long as there’s no actual danger of a _seppuku_ scene with a real sword. Yes, but traditionally it is the responsibility of the majority party to provide the votes to pass the debt limit. I think Pelosi should have insisted that Boehner provide more than 18(?) votes (half of the caucus seems reasonable). If he couldn’t, then she should have made an ‘ask’ for the Democratic votes. I know she couldn’t (the Dems made ‘clean’ their line in the sand), but I wish she could have. ---
**Author:** ![Punoqllads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12789 "2014-02-13T22:55:25Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > I think Pelosi should have insisted that Boehner provide more than 18(?) votes (half of the caucus seems reasonable). Based upon House votes over the past couple of years, I believe there’s little evidence that Boehner has significant control of his caucus. If anything, it was predominantly the other way around. ---
**Author:** ![boytyperanma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@boytyperanma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boytyperanma)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12790 "2014-02-13T23:25:57Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > Similar to the Idaho bill is this [Kansas bill](http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2014/02/13/kansas_anti_gay_segregation_bill_is_an_abomination.html). The [Slate.com](http://Slate.com) article explains how abhorrently terrible this bill is. It basically codifies discrimination into every aspect of life. > > Don’t want to serve in a restaurant? Don’t have to. > > Don’t like gays coming to your theater, kick them out. These things are already legal. > [@](#): > > Doctors don’t want to treat gays, let them die! > > Police officers thinks gays are evil? _Don’t respond to them!_ This would be new. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12791 "2014-02-13T23:29:27Z")
> [@](#): > > “My understanding is that James Holmes bought his 100-round capacity magazine legally,” said Sen. Irene Aguilar, D-Denver. “So in fact, this law would have stopped James Holmes from purchasing a 100-round magazine. > > “I was wondering if you agree with me.” > > “Perhaps, James Holmes would not have been able to purchase a 100-round magazine,” Herpin responded. > > “As it turned out, that was maybe a good thing that he had a 100-round magazine, because it jammed. If he had four, five, six 15-round magazines, there’s no telling how much damage he could have done until a good guy with a gun showed up.” Words fail me. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12792 "2014-02-13T23:31:55Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Words fail me. Why could not the malicious little bastards have failed Holmes? ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2014, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12793 "2014-02-14T01:38:36Z")
[Rep. Tim Huelskamp rails against LGBT rights: God is the ‘third person in your marriage’](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/12/rep-tim-huelskamp-rails-against-lgbt-rights-god-is-the-third-person-in-your-marriage/) ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2014, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12794 "2014-02-14T01:40:12Z")
> [@Shayna](#): > > [Rep. Tim Huelskamp rails against LGBT rights: God is the ‘third person in your marriage’](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/12/rep-tim-huelskamp-rails-against-lgbt-rights-god-is-the-third-person-in-your-marriage/) I thought Republicans were opposed to polygamy. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2014, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12795 "2014-02-14T01:44:34Z")
Wow. God’s a perv. ---
**Author:** ![Not\_Carlson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bc79bd/32.png) [@Not\_Carlson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Not_Carlson)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2014, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12796 "2014-02-14T02:02:02Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > Fucking assholes, the lot of them in Kansas :mad: Those hypocrites! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![SeldomSeen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@SeldomSeen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeldomSeen)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2014, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12797 "2014-02-14T02:29:56Z")
> [@Shayna](#): > > [Rep. Tim Huelskamp rails against LGBT rights: God is the ‘third person in your marriage’](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/12/rep-tim-huelskamp-rails-against-lgbt-rights-god-is-the-third-person-in-your-marriage/) Wait, what? All along they’ve been telling us that marriage is between ONE man and ONE woman! Now there’s this deity guy involved too?? ---
**Author:** ![Not\_Carlson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bc79bd/32.png) [@Not\_Carlson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Not_Carlson)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2014, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12798 "2014-02-14T02:41:00Z")
Dang. That’d sure give _me_ performance anxiety. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2014, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12799 "2014-02-14T02:45:01Z")
> [@SeldomSeen](#): > > Wait, what? All along they’ve been telling us that marriage is between ONE man and ONE woman! Now there’s this deity guy involved too?? His rod and His staff will comfort you. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2014, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12800 "2014-02-14T02:46:32Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > I thought Republicans were opposed to polygamy. And with that whole Trinity thing, suddenly there’s five people involved. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=639) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=641)