Tea Party: 'Class Action Lawsuit' Against Homosexuality

If you can't beat them, sue them.

At least that's Tea Party Unity leader Rick Scarborough's thinking, who suggested Friday that conservative activists should take a page from campaigns against Big Tobacco and file a “class action lawsuit” against homosexuality.

The far-right pastor was responding to fellow tea partier and president of Americans for Truth Peter LaBarbera, who was arguing that Fox News should tell more "stories of happy men and women who have left the homosexual lifestyle" in the same way they highlight black conservatives.

"Peter, the whole issue of a class action lawsuit, you and I have talked about this a little bit," Scarborough said. "I just wonder if you’ve explored that, talked to anyone about it. Obviously, statistically now even the Centers for Disease Control verifies that homosexuality much more likely leads to AIDS than smoking leads to cancer.

"And yet the entire nation has rejected smoking, billions of dollars are put into a trust fund to help cancer victims and the tobacco industry was held accountable for that," he added. "Any thoughts on that kind of an approach?"

"Yeah I think that’s great," LaBarbera responded. "I would love to see it. We always wanted to see one of the kid in high school who was counseled by the official school counselor to just be gay, then he comes down with HIV. But we never really got the client for that."

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Disgusting. It's sad that their constituents would probably agree with this shit.

Tea Party is just turning into a proxy identification for stupid Republicans

I've said it before and I'll say it again. These idiots are going to ruin the two party system by dragging the republican party down to the point where they are so divided that they are powerless against the democrats.

Idiots~

The real republicans need to oust these morons asap~

Good luck with that.

The Tea Billies just spotlight how truly ignorant and bigoted many Americans still are.

Considering the tea party is just a small, extremist group they really don't spotlight crap about America.

The tea party is absolutely insane though and the quickest way to get me to think of you as a joke of a human being is to affiliate yourself with such a profoundly ignorant group.

The only plus side to their existence is that they are going to force the Republican party to either become more moderate in certain ways to distinguish themselves from the tea party, or the Republican party will lose much of it's power in congress and maybe, just maybe then things might actually get accomplished by our government!

Imagine if there was a group of people as reasonable as the Tea Party is unreasonable influencing US politics. It might even become a good country.

what? who would they be suing?

Dear God these people are morons.

Its a shame that in the U.S the extreme right still exists and is influential to a certain degrees in politics and social reforms. The extreme right is one of the very few things that can bring any country no matter how powerful and wealthy it might be to its knees.

LOL, the tea party is far from small.

They are practically ram rodding the Republican Party and are currently influencing many Republican Primaries.

well they have the right to express their stupid ideals

Apparently yes, as long as there are people who are listening you can't limit their influence by attempting to shutting them up.

even if no one is listening the can say whatever the **** they want

The problem isn't that people like that are allowed to speak out. The problem is that people like that exist.

It's more that people/the media give them actual air time. There will always be some population of crazies

We all know the solution don't we. A bullet to th..... wait, maybe a better education system would be preferable.

It wouldn't matter, the kids would still have nut job parents who probably just home school them

This has nothing to do with any of my posts, why do you keep bringing it up I'm curious.

Because they have the right to exist

Oh, teaparty. You so cray cray.

Where did I say otherwise?

I can imagine the next thing they'll want is registry for every gay person in America.

Party lines aren't going to matter when everyone is going to be in the same economic hole together.

Just curious, but why are you attacking arguments that Gaza did not make?

How condescending of you.

Its a sad day when an article like this doesn't surprise me. Keep splitting up the reps, Tea Party. They won't ever put a candidate in the White House again.

Don't you need to know how to read in order to file a lawsuit?

I feel like lostrib just sits on GS all day picking fights with people.

Well presumably the attorney you hire knows how to read.

The far right is racist, bigoted and stupid.

Nothing new.

You can't file a law suit against something like this btw, how stupid.

Whose alt is lostrib

These threads used to break out into arguments when homosexuality was brought up, but know nobody ever argues against it, when I know some people here oppose it.

I think we're right when we assume that they're cowards.

You should have seen that topic that got deleted. shit storm broke out in there rofl

Oh lawdy.

No ones

only on weekdays

I only know of one user who incoherently go after other users like this.

Okay...

Well I don't have any alt accounts

It's easy to puff up your chest when you're in the majority, which these fools aren't anymore. Modern society is starting to recognize them for the ignoramuses they've always been.

These morons are an embarrassment to the human race.

Rick Scarborough is a self-proclaimed, out and out theocrat (or "Christocrat" as he puts it). Evangelical Christianity is a cancer to the American right.

But seriously, who are they planning to sue? are they suing all gay people? Or all people with HIV/AIDS?

I'm about as anti-same sex marriage as you can get, but................................... :lol::lol::lol::lol:

These morons are why I don't talk about my Tea Party affiliation very often. >_>

barely it's like 55 45 right now.

I remember tons of people arguing in favor if it when they were in the minority, just not the opposition now.

Such ignorance. Smoking is something invented by humans, homosexuality is not, homosexuality is just natural, has been for as long as humans have been around, maybe for as long as there's been life in this universe and many other universes. The ignorant morons are desperate to keep hate alive while refusing to grow up and get over themselves.

I agree entirely.

Dont think anyone can really answer that question

And tonight on Primer Impacto illegal immigrants! Same old news being relayed to Americans

Gotta love stupid people, but I don't feel like showing the love when they have real political power and plenty of people willing to vote them into office.