State Senator David Fowler Launches 'Vote Yes for Hate Amendment' Bus Tour in Tennessee
Lock up your children and bring the pets inside -- the homophobes are coming to a town near you. Your State Senator will be following the will of your pResident by working to get out the GOP vote and pass the anti gay marriage amendment. Here in Tennessee that means Senator Fowler will be bringing a whole busload of homophobes to your community or to a community near you.
The lily-white small-minded folks over at the pathetically titled RealMarriage.org are taking the hate on the road. Apparently all those letters from James Dobson, all those church bulletins and biblical hate inserts that State Senator David Fowler has so graciously made available to all kinds of churches may not be enough to persuade Tennessee to Vote for Hate on November 7.
So in the name of famed hatemonger Jesus, State Senator Fowler is taking the hate on the road!
For some reason, Tennessee has other things on its mind. Things like the Bush War in Iraq that is scheduled to go on and on forever. Things like Congresspeople who have world-class healthcare while 50 million ordinary Americans have none. Things like how crazy is it that we live in a state that has Third World infant mortality rates?
Just like all the other states, Tennessee has begun to wonder if a country that is Ruled by One Party can really be called a democracy.
The Vote Yes on Hate Bus Tour aims to get Tennessee's mind off such worrisome trivialities. So what if your country is ruled by One Party of incompetent crooks? The important thing is enshrining discrimination into the state constitution!
Led by your Tennessee State Senator David Fowler, the Real Marriage gang plans to take the Vote Yes for Hate Bus Tour on "a five-day, 25-stop, statewide bus tour" beginning on "Monday, October 30, with a press conference in the Nashville suburb of Franklin and conclude on Friday, November 3, in Memphis with an evening rally."
Nashville, TN - RealMarriage.org Director, Sen. David Fowler, today announced a five-day, 25-stop, statewide bus tour he has dubbed the "Vote Yes on #1 to Protect Marriage" tour to raise awareness of and to promote passage of Tennessee's Marriage Protection Amendment during early voting and on election day, November 7tht. A "Yes" vote for the amendment will be a vote to enshrine in the safety of the state constitution the definition of marriage in Tennessee as one man and one woman.
The tour will also feature evening rallies in churches in Chattanooga, Johnson City, and Clarksville. Guest speakers at the rallies will include RealMarriage.org advisory board members, Bobbie Patray (President, Tennessee Eagle Forum), former state Senator and original sponsor of Tennessee's DOMA legislation, Jim Holcomb, and Sen. David Fowler. Democrat and Republican legislators who are supporting the amendment are expected to join the tour at various points along the way.
We're sure it really helps your cause when your leader in bigotry is also a State Senator. Tax-payer-funded hate campaigns are apparently legal in this state. We are still waiting for news that Senator Fowler has resigned, as promised, we are still waiting for the president of Tennessee's Focus on the Family affiliate to stop calling himself our senator!
You can see the Hate Bus Tour schedule here. If you plan to meet and greet the homophobes, please send me photos!
Note that the Hate Tour will NOT be stopping in Nashville - the homophobes are apparently afraid of Nashville's large and thriving LGBT community, not to mention Nashville's large and thriving progressive community of LGBT and straight folks.
The Hate Tour begins on Monday, at 10am in Franklin and moves on to Murfreesboro at noon and Chattanooga at 7pm. If you live in those areas and plan to meet and greet the homophobes, please send photos!
Vote No on the Hate Amendment!
Photo of Vote NO on 1 billboard on West End Avenue, in Nashville via Nashville's LGBT progressive weekly paper, Church Street Freedom Press.
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