Comments on: Rachel Maddow Show gets statements from IHF and Scott Lively on Anti-Homosexuality Bill

By: Mary

Mary — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 02:36:50 +0000

I am glad to see he is not agreeing with the Uganda bill. That I would like to take all mean people to task is true – however – this is a good compromise. It doesn’t mean giving up – it means our efforts have rec’d some reward.

By: Michael Bussee

Michael Bussee — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 22:03:31 +0000

I have heard him say he was “misled”, “duped” and “sucked in”. He was tricked somehow. I have not heard him say:

“I really screwed up. I should have done some homework. I should have heeded the warnings. I should have spoken out then. I should have denounced this law and Scott Lively’s agenda much sooner. I take full responsibility for my carelessness and any harm I may have caused. I am truly sorry.”

That might help.

By: Michael Bussee

Michael Bussee — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:45:59 +0000

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. — Hanlon’s Razor.

By: Michael Bussee

Michael Bussee — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:23:15 +0000

I’ll be he might feel like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khSIYmTzt6U

By: Michael Bussee

Michael Bussee — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:29:00 +0000

Someone should give him the opportunity to sit down, on camera, and tell the whole story. I would suggest the Rachel Maddow show. After all, he says this situation is “worth all the news media coverage possible”.

By: Michael Bussee

Michael Bussee — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:17:56 +0000

According to what he told Fox40 News, he thought he was “preaching about open communication in parenting.”

“I’m trying to help people understand the differences and how to communicate and how to listen to each other.”

Wow. It must have been quote a shock when he found out the conference was actually about the evils of homosexuality — not effective parenting — and that he would not be the only one speaking, as he had supposed — and that Scott Lively would be the keynote speaker.

Of course, he admits he knew almost nothing before he went. Duped. Misled. Sucked in. I’ll bet he is hopping mad that he was used in this way. Someone should have warned him.

By: Lynn David

Lynn David — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 11:48:18 +0000

Well… Schmierer did know Lively would be there and what Lively’s agenda entails. Correct me if I am wrong Warren, but I think you said on another thread that you had spoken to Schmierer before he left for the conference.

I would like to get someone to ask him on the record about the trip across the Atlantic, and just what is meant by ‘the Nazis were all gay.’

By: Michael Bussee

Michael Bussee — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 09:08:28 +0000

“It’s all a misunderstanding… I was in the wrong place at the wrong time and I got sucked into something that was not my intent.” Don Schmierer

He absolutely was “in the wrong place at the wrong time”, but he wasn’t “sucked” there. He was warned and went anyway. He left that part out.

http://www.fox40.com/news/headlines/ktxlugandaman,0,7001016.story

By: Michael Bussee

Michael Bussee — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 09:01:06 +0000

But from that first time Randy Thomas quoted Schmierer in October something stunk. It still reeks.

Over a month has gone by and it still does. More excuses. “Duped”. “Misled”. “Didn’t really know much”.

http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2010/01/08/19203?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BoxTurtleBulletin+%28Box+Turtle+Bulletin%29&utm_content=FaceBook

By: Lynn David

Lynn David — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:43:24 +0000

I am perhaps a bit too much the pragmatist, Michael. But from that first time Randy Thomas quoted Schmierer in October something stunk. It still reeks.
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I should have pointed out that what also came after the Kampala conference besides that Langa annoucement was a whole lot of other homophobia out of Uganda.