PHOTO: Ron Paul Really Did Get Glitter Bombed Yesterday!

[Sullivan*]

Ron Paul is a republican, so that automatically means he hates gays! Didn't you hear???

This.

If the people who do the glitter bombs actually bombed those who don't care about gay rights, they'd have already tried to glitter bomb Obama and been shot by the Secret Service.

 

[Revolution9]

Please don't characterize these idiots as emblematic of the entire "gay community".

These glitter bombing clowns and the gay pride parades are your collective's public face. Change the gambits and perceptions will change, but I guarantee you a bunch of bar queens think it's the hoot. The thing gets me, and you just did it is the "I am gay/one of those", is frankly all you are telling people with that phrase is what you do in the bedroom. Can your community live it's life without waving it's lower fundament in everybody's face?

Rev9

 

[sailingaway]

These glitter bombing clowns and the gay pride parades are your collective's public face. Change the gambits and perceptions will change, but I guarantee you a bunch of bar queens think it's the hoot. The thing gets me, and you just did it is the "I am gay/one of those", is frankly all you are telling people with that phrase is what you do in the bedroom. Can your community live it's life without waving it's lower fundament in everybody's face?

Rev9

You're kinda doing the same thing....'your community'..

This guy is part of our community. His biggest identifyer in life might not be being gay. Each individual is different.

 

[Lishy]

The protestor who threw the glitter is sadly misinformed on what Ron Paul actually represents. Did the protestor even listen to a word he says? It's not nice to judge things you're uninformed about.

That said, I thought Ron Paul isn't against Gay marriage? He just doesn't want federal money to be funding it, or judging it? Isn't that a GOOD thing? It means realistic equality for homosexuals.

 

[cstarace]

These glitter bombing clowns and the gay pride parades are your collective's public face. Change the gambits and perceptions will change, but I guarantee you a bunch of bar queens think it's the hoot. The thing gets me, and you just did it is the "I am gay/one of those", is frankly all you are telling people with that phrase is what you do in the bedroom. Can your community live it's life without waving it's lower fundament in everybody's face?

Rev9

It's not "my" community. Am I gay? Yes. Do I consider myself part of some super-flamboyant gay community? Fuck no, I'm a gay individual. I don't strut around waving a rainbow flag, I don't go to pride parades. I made the mention that I'm a gay individual because I'm someone who is antithetical to the characterization of the gay "community" that some members in this thread were making. I was making an anti-collectivism statement.

 

[gb13]

This.

If the people who do the glitter bombs actually bombed those who don't care about gay rights, they'd have already tried to glitter bomb Obama and been shot by the Secret Service.

haha exactly!

 

[ScotTFO]

Not me... again we're lumping individuals as "communities" and such.

While I understand this concern and saying community is very general to a group of people it is the best way I can describe a group of mis-informed people with a common trait. Of course this doesn't mean ALL and I apologise if it came off that way.

This is just like us saying we have a problem getting women and older people to vote for Ron Paul. Perhaps community was not the right word to use here but I felt it was the best way to get my point across. We obviously have a problem appealing to the majority of gay individuals for some reason and we need to explain to them why Ron Paul is their best chance of being treated fairly. I obviously have no issue with gay people as mentioned before they are my friends, I don't see them any different than anyone else. The only problem I have is their blind hatred for Ron Paul and I am merely looking for someone who is better educated to put into words the argument to them for a Ron Paul presidency and why it would be in their best interest.

 

[JK/SEA]

the glitter bomb wasn't a personal attack on Ron, it was against the party. Lay with dogs, get fleas kinda mentality....i pity the fool that tossed the glitter. Maybe get Kokesh to interview him and 'explain' things.

 

[sailingaway]

the glitter bomb wasn't a personal attack on Ron, it was against the party. Lay with dogs, get fleas kinda mentality....i pity the fool that tossed the glitter. Maybe get Kokesh to interview him and 'explain' things.

the guy actually yelled about housing and medical care being human rights when he threw it. It wasn't specifically about gayness, it seems.

 

[ericthethe]

This just goes to prove that all of these OWS-like morons don't have a single clue about any of the candidates or what their agenda really is.

No it doesn't. Don't make sweeping generalizations of a whole group because of one idiot.

Most of them are just disenfranchised for the sake of being disenfranchised and lured into it all by Soros and his gang of reptiles, who engineered all of it in order for Obama to have leverage and pass more fascist and nazi'ish bills/laws.

 

[dannno]

I've a few gay friends that are soooo anti-Paul, it's apparent that the gay community has some form of dialog going that they are convincing eachother than Ron Paul is not good for gay people.

I honestly don't understand what they have against him.

Perhaps someone should make us all a write-up on Ron Paul and the gay community and why this is best for them as well.

I have a couple gay friends who are pro-Paul, although they don't agree with him on everything. They are pretty intertwined into the gay community through social media, so I'm not really sure that is the case.

Have you showed them the quote of Ron Paul saying "gay people can do whatever they want" referring to marriage, in the bedroom, etc.?

Do they know he wants to end all of the wars and legalize mj?

Do they know he wants to cut pretty much everything in the fed govt. except for some defense and our current social programs and obligations, so that those programs can continue? Do they know that even though he ultimately doesn't want the Fed. govt. involved in these things that they could eventually be transitioned to the state level where we could have more control over them?

 

[cstarace]

While I understand this concern and saying community is very general to a group of people it is the best way I can describe a group of mis-informed people with a common trait. Of course this doesn't mean ALL and I apologise if it came off that way.

This is just like us saying we have a problem getting women and older people to vote for Ron Paul. Perhaps community was not the right word to use here but I felt it was the best way to get my point across. We obviously have a problem appealing to the majority of gay individuals for some reason and we need to explain to them why Ron Paul is their best chance of being treated fairly. I obviously have no issue with gay people as mentioned before they are my friends, I don't see them any different than anyone else. The only problem I have is their blind hatred for Ron Paul and I am merely looking for someone who is better educated to put into words the argument to them for a Ron Paul presidency and why it would be in their best interest.

I understand, I wasn't trying to call you homophobic or anything like that. Just making a statement about collectivism.

To the contrary, in my situation, it was actually because of Dr. Paul's libertarianism when it came to social issues that attracted me to him in the first place. I had always been a fiscal conservative but there was no possibility of me ever supporting an establishment Republican because of their insistence on being involved in my personal life. Dr. Paul was/is the obvious exception to this which naturally piqued my interest... and so I learned about the liberty movement

 

[Okie RP fan]

I understand, I wasn't trying to call you homophobic or anything like that. Just making a statement about collectivism.

To the contrary, in my situation, it was actually because of Dr. Paul's libertarianism when it came to social issues that attracted me to him in the first place. I had always been a fiscal conservative but there was no possibility of me ever supporting an establishment Republican because of their insistence on being involved in my personal life. Dr. Paul was/is the obvious exception to this which naturally piqued my interest... and so I learned about the liberty movement

Well, there ya go.

While some candidates/leaders of past and current times have brought people together, I really think Dr. Paul has brought together more people and at higher levels than most. And, of course, no others have been quite as passionate as us.

 

[kylejack]

Yes. The homosexual community tends to prepare a handful (or some sort of bag) of glitter and goes to political events, particularly to those of Republicans, and throws the glitter on them to show them that they are gay and proud. The glitter to basically a form of insult.

I don't care if they are gay or not, just let me be and I will do the same. However, I find antics such as these to be childish and simply pathetic, personally.

They do it because politicians are not letting them be.

 

[Student Of Paulism]

No it doesn't. Don't make sweeping generalizations of a whole group because of one idiot.

It is already on record that Nazi-collaborating piece of garbage already staged and paid people to protest. You seriously think EVERYONE out there is some 'good ole boy'? Puh lease. Thus, it dragged in REAL PEOPLE thinking they were standing up for some cause, when it was blatantly engineered for various reasons to make the left look better and they can all be like 'SEE, WE TOLD YOU SO!'. Now they can all say 'OK RAISE TAXES ON US' (which does nothing to hurt them in long run, and will just raise the middle class' taxes more, which then goes back to them again to pay for more subsidies and other injustices). Hell, it is more obvious than ever. All you see now is Soros going on and on that were facing imminent decay, doomsday and financial crises all over the place and that 'martial law' is coming, blah blah. All the more reason for Obama and the corrupt senate to pass laws to 'contain' everyone.

 

[GrahamUK]

Did anyone see Santorum was gliter bombed TWICE today... They must really love him lol

 

[freeforall]

These glitter bombing clowns and the gay pride parades are your collective's public face. Change the gambits and perceptions will change, but I guarantee you a bunch of bar queens think it's the hoot. The thing gets me, and you just did it is the "I am gay/one of those", is frankly all you are telling people with that phrase is what you do in the bedroom. Can your community live it's life without waving it's lower fundament in everybody's face?

Rev9

It's not just about what you do in the bedroom. For many, it is about the person you go home to. My life with my husband is about our family and friends, supporting each other's ideas, earning our living, and supporting each other when things are difficult. What we do in the bedroom is a small part of the whole. It is the same for a gay person.

 

[Student Of Paulism]

Did anyone see Santorum was gliter bombed TWICE today... They must really love him lol

Lol if anyone deserves to be, it's him.

 

[playpianoking]

The thrower of it must be very uninformed. RP is the one trying to get the government out of marriage in the first place so two people can call it whatever they want.

 

[seraphson]

every individual is different. I think OWS, the real one, not the communist/union astroturf groups, is a bit like the tea party. People are trying to figure out what is going on. Some will end up looking in the right direction.

I have a similar take on it as well. It's good that the gears are moving but their ship needs a good bit of navigation.