{"id":12805,"date":"2011-12-28T12:08:26","date_gmt":"2011-12-28T17:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=12805"},"modified":"2011-12-28T12:08:26","modified_gmt":"2011-12-28T17:08:26","slug":"dan-savage-not-worried-about-anti-gay-stance-in-ron-pauls-newsletters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/12\/28\/dan-savage-not-worried-about-anti-gay-stance-in-ron-pauls-newsletters\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Savage not worried about anti-gay stance in Ron Paul’s newsletters"},"content":{"rendered":"

The man who perhaps single-handedly saved us from a Santorum presidency doesn’t think the anti-gay comments<\/a> in Ron Paul’s newsletters matter:<\/p>\n

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In 2011, the press has discovered — for the third time — the newsletters Paul sold in the years between his failed 1984 Senate bid and his congressional comeback in 1996. They reveal Paul (or his ghostwriter) to be a scared cynic with paranoid thoughts about blacks, gays, and Israel. The comments about black men — including their supposed \u201ccriminal\u201d tendencies — have attracted wide attention. But the newsletters were often just as vitriolic about gay people, saying they were \u201cfar better off when social pressure forced them to hide their activities.\u201d A \u201cgay lobby\u201d suppressed the truth about AIDS, the newsletters claimed. \u201cI miss the closet,\u201d groaned Paul-or-his-ghost.<\/p>\n

Republicans aren\u2019t supposed to survive comments like that. Gay activists have \u201cglitter-bombed\u201d Michele Bachmann and Newt Gingrich, showering them with sparkles to shame them for their anti-gay rights stances. After Rick Santorum compared gay sex to \u201cman on dog\u201d sex, Dan Savage told fans to Google-bomb \u201cSantorum,\u201d propagating the idea that it\u2019s a Latin-sounding word for \u201cthe frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the by-product of anal sex.\u201d That was six years ago. Santorum still gets humiliating questions about it.<\/p>\n

Nobody grills Paul about this stuff. When I asked Savage about the ugly comments in old Paul Survival Reports<\/em>, he shrugged them off. \u201cRon Paul can have the closet,\u201d he said. \u201cHe might miss it, but we sure don’t. Maybe there’s room in there for his old newsletters?\u201d<\/p>\n

There is no comparing Paul and Santorum, said Savage, because Paul is a leave-us-alone libertarian. \u201cRon is older than my father, far less toxic than Santorum, and, as he isn’t beloved of religious conservatives, he isn’t out there stoking the hatreds of our social and political enemies,\u201d he explained. \u201cAnd Ron may not like gay people, and may not want to hang out with us or use our toilets, but he’s content to leave us the fuck alone and recognizes that gay citizens are entitled to the same rights as all other citizens. Santorum, on the other hand, believes that his bigotry must be given the force of law. That’s an important difference.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The man who perhaps single-handedly saved us from a Santorum presidency doesn’t think the anti-gay comments in Ron Paul’s newsletters matter: In 2011, the press has discovered — for the third time — the newsletters Paul sold in the years between his failed 1984 Senate bid and his congressional comeback in 1996. They reveal Paul […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,28,53,13],"tags":[198,196,419],"class_list":["post-12805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-media","category-politics","category-usa","tag-equalrights","tag-lgbt","tag-ronpaul"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3kx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12806,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12805\/revisions\/12806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}