Conservative Groups Slam Ashcroft on Gay Pride Party

fox news ^ | Thursday, June 20, 2002 | Fox News' Jonathan Polland and the Associated Press contributed to this report.

[RaceBannon]

WASHINGTON

[RaceBannon]

It is no wonder ashcroft is letting clinton off.

He does not know right from wrong.

[End Times Sentinel]

Two questions beg to be asked here:

a group of Justice Department employees at their annual Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Pride program held at DOJ headquarters

Why on earth does the Justice Department even HAVE a gay pride program???

Sandy Rios, president of Concerned Women for America, said Ashcroft's actions will come back to bite the administration, which is taking advantage of its base supporters.

What is the point in supporting the Republican Party when they continuously offend me just like the dems do???

Owl_Eagle

”Guns Before Butter.”

[jlogajan]

He does not know right from wrong.

Actually, he is AG for everyone in the US, and they don't all belong to the same religion or hold the same religious beliefs. If he was AG for a religious establishment, the religious state, then you might have a valid complaint. Since he is not, since he has a duty to his job, and that job is to work for ALL Americans -- he is meeting the obligations of that job by allowing people of divergent religious belief to express their own opinions -- even if they happen to be his employees.

It is called religious tolerance.

[MadRobotArtist]

J. Edgar Hoover = John Ashcroft

That can be the only explanation.

[Norwell]

I did not know that sodomy was a religion. I'd be interested to know how may Mormon-Pride, Baptist-Pride and Heterosexual-Pride goups are Given time during the work day to celebrate their uniqueness.

[jlogajan]

"Given time during the work day..."

held at DOJ headquarters on Wednesday evening.

[jlogajan]

I did not know that sodomy was a religion.

Views on sexual conduct are, however, often matters of religious belief -- and therefore require a bit of tolerance from secular governments.

[Siobhan]

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[Dialup Llama]

Ashcrofts near death experience at his confirmation hearings has turned him into a tame.

[dmz]

I actually think his self-confidence was shattered when he couldn't beat a dead guy in an election (sorry, but you knew someone was gonna go there)

[RaceBannon]

A Christian is calle to obey God, not men when it comes to matters of sin. For a Christian to allow such a sin to take place, praising this sin, and letting the sodomites glory in this sin, that is not a Christian I would ever vote for or stick up for!

[steve-b]

Get a life. The adults have real work -- such as killing a band of savages before they kill us -- to do.

[jlogajan]

For a Christian to allow such a sin to take place

Whoa!!!! Christians are called upon to go out and prevent sins from taking place???? Can you imagine the police state that would require? It'd make the Taliban look like nihilists!

[steve-b]

If he was AG for a religious establishment, the religious state

Did the Attorney General, of whatever they have, of Afghanistan escape? Maybe Knight can hire him for something.

[ZULU]

Wew should stop referring to these perverts as "gays". They stole a decent Anglo-Saxon word for being happy and contented and perverted it for they own use as they perverted the use of the human body.

These perverts should be referred to as sodomites. You are correct. A newspaper article with a headline "Attorney General Allows Subordinate to Address Convocation of Sodomites" would be more accurate and descriptive, but we will never see it here.

[jaq]

Views on sexual conduct are, however, often matters of religious belief -- and therefore require a bit of tolerance from secular governments.

Really? Using your argument, how does this fit with separation of church and state? Can we put a manger scene on the front lawn of the DOJ at Christmas? After all, if the DOJ is going to have a "bit of tolerance" re homosexually, how 'bout scenes depicting the birth of Christ?

[jlogajan]

After all, if the DOJ is going to have a "bit of tolerance" re homosexually, how 'bout scenes depicting the birth of Christ?

Oh come on, the DOJ has had thousands of gatherings of members honoring marriages, families, civic works, etc. That would be a more apt analogy than a manger scene on public property.

[usconservative]

"After all the work we did to stand up to the liberal mudslinging during Ashcroft's confirmation fight, this is what we get?" Knight said.

Disappointing, isn't it? With each passing day, yet another reason to NOT vote for Bush in 2004 gets added to the list.

The "NO" vote list is now longer than the "YES" vote list. I wonder if this trend is going to continue up until election day, 2004 or if Bush will somehow wise up and straighten his cabinet and appointees out.

Somehow, I think not. If I wanted a damn' DemocRAT for President, I'd have voted for one. But since I didn't and somehow managed to get one anyway ......

[m1911]

Get a life. The adults have real work -- such as killing a band of savages before they kill us -- to do.

Thank you.

[jlogajan]

We should stop referring to these perverts as "gays". They stole a decent Anglo-Saxon word for being happy and contented and perverted it for they own use as they perverted the use of the human body.

Colonel "Bat" Guano: I think you're some kind of deviated pervert. I think General Ripper found out about your perversion, and that you were organizing some kind of mutiny of perverts. -- Dr. Strangelove