What, indeed, is wrong with these people?

Since it’s the day before the Wisconsin/Maryland Primary, it’s as good a time as any to re-shine a light on what the Republican candidates may have said about gays and gay rights issues, including marriage equality, over the course of their campaigns.

Fred Karger Calls for Romney, Santorum, Gingrich to Disavow NOM Pledge.

Above is a link to Karen Ocamb’s LGBT/POV blog post on gay Republican candidate Fred Karger’s demand that the other candidates he’s running against – Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich – repudiate the pledges they made to the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) earlier in the campaign, basically promising to uphold traditional marriage by way of constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, to defend DOMA, to follow the “original intent of the Constitution” even to officially investigate the “harassment of traditional marriage supporters” – whatever that means.

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It’s come out that NOM, the organization that viciously fights marriage equality, is being investigated for money laundering in Maine, so he’s using these possible illegal activities as the basis the candidates should repudiate their pledges – along with the fact that the pledges are just genuinely hateful.

But that’s the point I wanted to make – that these pledges are hateful and so the people making them must as well be hateful. Really, what kind of person would officially and publicly deny people the right to be equal to their straight citizen counterparts, to etch it into the Constitution that we have two classes of people in this country, first class and second class? How antithetical is it to democracy to even have such an opinion?

Below is a clip from the Young Turks where Bob Schieffer of CBS News interviews former Republican Senator Alan Simpson, who talks about Rick Santorum and his stance on gay marriage and just how wrong it is. Now there’s plenty I would disagree with Simpson on, but he’s speaking here as a true human being with a normal heart — speaking the truth about the homophobia at the heart of the Republican party philosophy. Watch it if you haven’t. (at least the first part).

Regarding Rick Santorum’s homophobia, Simpson says basically (about nullifying existing gay marriages, etc):

“What’s kind about that? What’s human about that? We all know or love someone who’s gay or lesbian. To me, it’s startling, and borders on disgust.”