6 Truly Unhinged Right-Wing Reactions to Jan Brewer"s Veto of AZ"s Anti-Gay Bill

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6 Truly Unhinged Right-Wing Reactions to Jan Brewer"s Veto of AZ"s Anti-Gay Bill

6 Truly Unhinged Right-Wing Reactions to Jan Brewer"s Veto of AZ"s Anti-Gay Bill

"Tyranny is on the march," and "Now, we"ll all have to bake penis cakes."

Right-wingers in media, politics and so-called “think-tanks” wasted no time in becoming apoplectic about Arizona Governor Jan Brewer"s reluctant decision to veto her state"s blatantly discriminatory law which would allow businesses to refuse service to gay customers. 

Here are some of the most ridiculous immediate reactions. Expect plenty more idiocy and hate in the coming days:

1. Tucker Carlson on Fox News. Just before the veto, Carlson opined that Arizona"s anti-gay bill promotes “tolerance.” Then he argued that it"s “fascism” to require individuals and business owners to provide equal service to gay people. “If you try to force me to bake a cake for your gay wedding, that"s fascism,” Carlson said. Might we suggest another visit to your dictionary, Tucker?

2. Todd Starnes, Fox News “Business” host tweeted, just after the veto: “AZ Gov. Jan Brewer makes Christians in her state second-class citizens.” So, to be clear, not being allowed to discriminate legally is the definition of discrimination. Surely, all the Christians will flee Arizona. But where will they go? To the promised, homophobic land?

3. Rick Lowry of the National Review tweeted: “The Brewer veto shows that poorly informed hysteria works.” He means, of course, that Brewer caved to the hysteria from the business community who argued, fairly rationally, that the proposed law would hurt business and tourism in the state. But wait, we thought conservatives were pro-business. Are we to understand that they are only pro-business when it does not clash with their desire to discriminate against gays? It"s a lot to keep straight.

4. Judson Phillips, president of Tea Party Nation had a predictably measured reaction: “Tyranny is on the march!” he ranted. Business owners who are not allowed to discriminate against gays and lesbians are “slaves” to the “great liberal state,” which now has a handservant in “French Republicans” like Jan Brewer. Also, now business owners are going to be forced to bake cakes with “a giant phallic symbol on it,” yes, the dreaded penis cake; or possibly a cake with another “shape of genitalia,” might invade. Still other businesses will be forced to “photograph a homosexual wedding where the participants decide they want to be nude or engage in sexual behavior.” And what"s really weird is that, obviously, all businesses are going to be forced to do these things, whether they are bakers or photographers, or not. Bet you didn"t read that in the fine print.  

5. Rush Limbaugh: Jan Brewer got bullied by corporate America, says Rush. But wait, some kinds of bullying are okay, just not when I disagree. Naturally, the right-wing shock jock unleashed his usual mish-mash of incoherent thoughts on the matter. Examples: “Religious beliefs can’t be used to stop anything the left wants to impose, unless they’re Muslim religious beliefs and then we have to honor those.” 

Exactly. Leftists, Muslims, one and the same, led by Muslim-in-chief, Obama, all of them love the gays. Then there is poor Jan Brewer being bullied so:

“She’s being bullied by the homosexual lobby in Arizona and elsewhere,” Limbaugh said. “She’s being bullied by the nationwide drive-by media,she’s being bullied by certain elements of corporate America in order to advance the gay agenda. I guess in that circumstance bullying is admirable. In fact, this kind of bullying is honorable.”

Spoken like a true bully..

6. Michelle Bachmann: Brewer “eviscerated free speech.”  What was funny was that Michelle Bachmann was doing her level best to sound balanced and reasonable in her interview with CNN"s Wolf Blitzer on the topic.  “Just like we need to observe tolerance for the gay and lesbian community, we need to have tolerance for the community of people who hold sincerely held religious belief,” she said. But, just to be clear, Bachmann did not think Brewer should veto the bigoted bill, and did not think that discriminating against gays means “intolerance.”

“Oh in fact, it’s just the opposite,” Bachmann patiently explained to Wolf. “This is a decided level of intolerance — it’s effectively eviscerating the rights of freedom of speech, expression and religious expression for the people of Arizona, and it sets a terrible precedent.”

We can only imagine the other “terrible precedents” Bachmann sees: The Voting Rights Act? Emancipation Proclamation? Scary indeed.

 

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(NaturalNews) You may have heard rumors recently that all kosher-certified foods — that is, foods that meet strict Jewish dietary standards — are now free of genetically-modified organisms (GMOs). Unfortunately, these rumors are not true. But there is one kosher certification company in particular, Natural Food Certifiers (NFC), that recently announced it will no longer certify as kosher any foods or food brands that contain or use GMOs.

In a recent press release, NFC, which also offers organic, gluten-free, non-GMO, and vegan certifications, announced that it will no longer accept any applications from manufacturers seeking kosher certification for products that contain GMOs. And all existing certified kosher foods under NFC’s “Apple K” program will have one year to change their ingredients and remove all GMOs, or else lose their certification.

“By granting certification only to those products which are GMO-free, the Apple K is adhering to the principle of ‘Begin Naturally. Stay That Way,’” says Rabbi Reuven Flamer, Founder and Director of NFC. “NFC was very proud to introduce the first ‘Natural Only’ kosher supervision. Rejecting products that contain GMOs for kosher certification is a logical addition to our kosher supervision, given the variety of certification and verification programs which NFC offers.”

While kosher food law does not specifically prohibit GMOs, probably because GMOs did not exist when it was first established, Rabbi Flamer says the modern food additives are still unnatural. And in the interest of guarding public health, as well as ensuring that all NFC-certified products are trusted, safe and nutritious, Rabbi Flamer believes it is only right that GMOs be removed from all Apple K kosher-certified products.

“Recent studies show that GMOs may cause various kinds of health problems from digestive disturbances to food allergies, and that GMOs require more herbicides, which is really the opposite reason why GMOs were touted to be so environmentally helpful in the first place,” he adds. “For all of the many reasons that GMOs raise a red flag, consumers simply don’t want them in their foods, and our clients want to accommodate their customers.”

Rabbi Flamer is referring, of course, to studies such as the Gilles-Eric Seralini paper on GMO corn, which found that rats fed a lifetime of Bt corn treated with Roundup (glyphosate) developed serious liver and kidney damage, not to mention horrifying tumors all over their bodies. Other recent studies have linked GMO consumption to gastrointestinal damage and behavioral problems.

You can see an image of the Apple K kosher-certified logo, in order to look for it on product labels, by visiting:
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To go along with its new Apple K kosher-certified standard, NFC has also introduced a new non-GMO verification program known as “GMO Guard” that it says will help make it even easier for consumers to avoid GMOs while shopping. Unveiled back in March, the program accompanies the more well-known Non-GMO Project in certifying food products that are determined to be free of GMOs, adding momentum to a much larger movement to rid the food supply of GMOs altogether.

“We ourselves operate under full transparency,” says Rabbi Flamer about his organization’s activities. “GMO Guard offers reliable verification that our clients can trust. We’re committed to ensuring the personal choice for consumers in food purchases today, which demands the proper labeling for no GMO usage on products.”

You can learn more about the GMO Guard program by visiting:
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