Right wing conservative lobbyist - Doctors who perform SRS should go to jail

[Guest LizMarie]

Um, yep. He actually said that.

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/peter-labarbera-says-doctors-who-perform-sex-reassignment-surgery-should-be-imprisoned

[Guest Brenda Hailey]

The doctor who gave Robert LaBarbera a lobotomy and put him back on the streets should be put in jail as well :-/

I guess all those doctors that treated women who survived breast cancer through such surgeries should share the same jail cell?

I wonder at what age Robert thinks a young man/woman has the right to make decisions about her body for themselves because he obviously doesnt think anyone in their 20's should...

So what is it exactly that drives people to relentlessly pursue such things they hate and do not understand?

[Guest LesleyAnne]

Just another example of the American version of the Taliban.

These guys want to lead us all to the promised land...........their way!!

[Carolyn Marie]

He's just one guy with fringe views. He hasn't been elected to anything, has no official constituency, and has a right to whatever opinions he wants to have. We have the right not to listen to him. Sure, some will, but that will always be the case.

The majority of people in this country have no problems with same sex marriage, and most probably never gave any thought to GRS. Those are the folks that matter to me, not this goof.

Carolyn Marie

[Guest princessofdarkness]

"These doctors are exploiting these gender confused individuals and making money off of them."

Well see, he's actually worried about us. He's worried about the profit motive. So he's even more progressive than I thought, a staunch anti-capitalist. But maybe he's actually more a Maoist than a progressive, claiming that these free-market doctors should be arrested. I admire his dedication to the working class trans community, but having doctor's arrested for not fighting harder for single-payer...What a moonbat.

[Guest princessofdarkness]

Oh wait...no one's said 'moonbat' since 1969.

[VickySGV]

Yeah, but some of us heard it the first time around!! 'Tis fitting indeed as a descriptor.

[Bulldog1948]

Somewhere over the Moonbat

a dingus-dangus floats softly by

Yet craving to meet another

such as she.

But, finding not another like herself

she is forced to hurry on

Appolo is on the pad

And, she must catch the last flight out

[Guest LizMarie]

We cannot dismiss people like this. These are the folks who drive the "social conservative" agenda and they literally own the Republican Party on social issues. Republican politicians are terrified of these people because they will create nasty backlash if a Republican chooses to support LGBT people or other socially progressive positions.

So while some of you may not recognize who this man is, I do, and I am well aware that he has at least a small say in formulating the social positions of the GOP.

[Guest KimberlyF]

This guy ran for office in illinois in a heavily republican district and didn't get the nomination and so he moved on to what many failed politicians do and works on the sidelines.

[Bulldog1948]

That's the problem with the GOP. They have allowed crazies to take over their party and set the agendas. It's not always all republicans, it's just a tiny small bunch of leeches that have affixed themselves and sucked the good and decent people from the GOP. Now, the problem has evolved. What does a good Republican do? Stay with the GOP and try to rid irself of the garbarge or abadon the party altogether. but, where does one go? that is the question.

[Guest LesleyAnne]

The far right wing fringe have actually found a party that will give them a well funded platform. The GOP have found success in being lock step with each other no matter how crazy the rhetoric (lemmings).

It's the GOP's own fault that they courted these far right wing groups in order to gain more votes; thinking they could get their votes and then promptly dismiss their agenda's. They mistakenly thought that they could keep control (NOT!, and can only go along for the ride). They discovered sadly that the only way to keep their party from completely splintering itself into oblivion was to go ahead and embrace those fringe groups (like the Tea Party, The Religious Right, Skin Heads, Neo Natzi's, and too many more to name, etc.) in an attempt to increase their strength. This is why the Republican's have embraced the likes of the Tea Party (actually created, and funded by the Koch's, and not a grass roots start up... (a true grass roots uprising doesn't start off with a million dollar bus showing up at orchestrated rallies), and we've seen what happens when the GOP doesn't continue to embrace the fringe.....they lose primaries. So now they have no choice but continue down that road, but they need voices like.

i agree with Elizabeth Marie in that the GOP's strength comes from the so called fringe journalists ( not real journalists, just commentators serving their idiot public, and master in the likes of Murdock of Faux News), nut job doctors that the fringe feel lend legitimacy to their narrow mindless rants, should not be ignored or dismissed. Dismissing them only serves to perpetuate their absurd comments, and madness. Continued backlash, and heavy pressure got the likes of Glenn Beck to be forced down to a lower place on the crazy platform, and Limbaugh is getting more, and more smack downs by having pressure put on his advertisers. They are about money, and hurting their wallets is the only way to hit back. The more we hit back swiftly, and with surgical precision (the military in me) against them, the media and the advertisers that allow them air time the more we can send a message that we will fight back.

I am not one to roll over, and play dead. I've been around a long time, and as long as I have a breath left I will strike back...

If you've read one of my posts on the subject CBS's "Born This Way" I wrote CBS, and Rita Braver scathing them for irresponsibly giving a platform to the leader of a known hate group... Brad Dacus who actually is the president of the Pacific Justice Institute (PJI), a Sacramento-based anti-LGBT hate group. They introduced him as the "leader of a conservative legal group" when actually he is a self righteous bigot who has stated that LGBT people are "under Satan's dominion"

I've received nothing back from CBS (no shock), just maybe they didn't receive enough backlash to give a $#@%. But I didn't ignore their lax in journalism.

So again I say ignoring these a..ho's will not make them go away, they have too much money behind them, and too many idiots that follow them. We just have to make it uncomfortable to voice it, and make the cockroaches go back into the darkness thinking what they will and shutting the hell up!

Together we stand....divided we fall.

Love to all,

LesleyAnne