Anti-gay A.G. among McCain supporters
COLUMBIA — Queer news and culture blog Queerty.com reported Apr. 23 on the numerous anti-gay politicians supporting Republican Sen. John McCain’s bid for the White House. Among them was South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster. <---UZ: Yea! Go Team! Oh wait... not that team.
In a June 27, 2003, article from The Charlotte Observer, McMaster railed against the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Lawrence v. Texas (2003). <---UZ: Okay a str8 guy who doesn't like oral sex ~ or the full spectrum of the meaning of sodomy. Either way I bet that every time he repeats this mantra pennies flow from the heavens into his karmic campaign war chest.
“Texas, just like South Carolina, has the fundamental right and authority as a sovereign state to enact laws prohibiting behavior deemed inappropriate and detrimental to the state,” McMaster said. “The citizens of our state, through their elected representatives, have seen fit to have our law against sodomy in effect since the Lord Proprietors governed South Carolina.” <---UZ: Say What?!?!?!? That statement is indicative of a mouth piece racist. Although it took South Carolina until 1996 (I think) to overturn it's Constitutional Amendment banning interracial marriages. UZ pauses to reflect on this weeks passing of Mildred Loving. "Lord Proprietors???!!!" get the man a powdered wig! Pronto!
Since when has our state's Attorney General been given the all seeing right to be our moral compass? Talk amongst yourselves.
In an effort to end this post on a high note UZ's "Letter to the Editor Gladii Award" goes to (drum roll) James M. Holloway for the following, run in today's State Paper.• Ministers shouldn’t get tax-free housing
A member of my Sunday school class says that “hell will be full of preachers.” He may be on to something.
Let’s review. Within just the last two years, we’ve had one blame people’s behavior for the occurrence of a natural disaster; another caught purchasing the services of gay escorts; another ranting racist and other offensive statements; and, most recently, a preacher convicted of incest for molesting his daughter. And that’s on top of the ever-present cast of nationally recognized camera hogs and cable TV shakedown artists.
We can’t stop preachers from saying and doing boneheaded things, but we can stop federal taxes from assisting them. Specifically, ordained ministers serving in the ministry of their ordination are allowed a tax-free housing allowance. This allowance is broadly written to include most costs of housing. It is really generous.
As reported during the Rev. Jeremiah Wright incident, his church has taken a reported $1.6 million mortgage to build his retirement house, along with a $10 million line of credit.
The days of preachers working in poverty were over in the 1980s. Its time for preachers to cowboy up, act like the rest of us and pay taxes on their housing allowances.
JAMES M. HOLLOWAY JR. - Columbia, SC
UZ has been wondering the same thing. We're going to have to find new tax revenue sources from somewhere. The working Lower Middle Class Poor of this country are tapped out.
1 comments:
If it is practiced in a consentual relationship between adults, how is sodomy, in its "full spectrum of meaning" inappropriate and detrimental to the state?
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