Del. Robert G. Marshall, R-Prince William, is asking the Richmond Federal Reserve Bank to remove the rainbow flag flying below the American flag outside of the building, calling its presence “a serious deficiency of judgment by your organization, one not limited to social issues.”
In a letter to Richmond Fed President Jeffrey M. Lacker, Marshall says the homosexual behavior “celebrated” by the bank “undermines the American economy” and is a class six felony in Virginia.
“The Richmond Fed’s endorsement of costly, anti-social, immoral behavior is rejected by 6,000 years of Western Religious and moral teaching,” writes Marshall, who is among the General Assembly’s most conservative members and has long been outspoken on gay-rights issues.
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Shut the fuck up, Marshall. The FRB can do whatever the hell they want to promote diversity. Besides, I'd bet anything that you scream bloody murder whenever some public area takes down Christian symbols.
"6,000 years of Western Religious and moral teaching"
You mean the western religious teaching of the native Americans? The Western culture isn't 6,000 years old. Besides that, your Bible comes from a Middle Eastern culture from just over 2,000 years ago.
I think Marshall has come to the right conclusion for the wrong reasons. The Federal Reserve Bank is basically a federal institution (with a good deal of private business mixed in). A federal institution shouldn't show favoritism to one particular social group. I can't let the fact that homosexuals are a group that I like cloud my judgement on this. If it were a Christian flag (which, I know, is a religious group rather than a social group) or a flag celebrating a single racial group, I would want it taken down. Not out of hatred toward Christians or any particular race-- but in the name of neutrality in government.
@#1296433: I'm not exactly familiar with Virginia's legal code, but I suspect that the felony is sodomy.
@#1296433
I had to go look that up myself, and apparently Virginia has some outdated laws against oral sex and sodomy, hence the 'o look we have teh lawz on our side!!one' attitude. But that's ignoring this Supreme Court decision from 2003, Lawrence v. Texas. So, he's a moron, essentially.
homosexual behavior “celebrated” by the bank “undermines the American economy” and is a class six felony in Virginia.
Homosexuality is destroying the economy? If we get rid of gays, then all the rainbow flag makers will go out of business.
And sodomy may be a class six felony in Virginia, but the U.S. Supreme Court says that consensual sodomy crimes are unconstitutional.
“The Richmond Fed’s endorsement of costly, anti-social, immoral behavior is rejected by 6,000 years of Western Religious and moral teaching,”
6000 years of Western teaching? I thought you nutjobs thought the universe was created just 6000 years ago? At any rate, the U.S. didn't exist that far back and Europe was pretty much filled with pagans.
The Federal Reserve Bank is basically a federal institution (with a good deal of private business mixed in).
Not to thread-jack but... The Federal Reserve is as "federal" as Federal Express. In other words, it's not at all. (Thanks to Dennis Kucinich for the catch phrase.)
"The Richmond Fed’s endorsement of the equality of people, regardless of who they love, is rejected by 4,000 years of baseless religious prejudices and traditions”
Fixed that for ya. I suspect that the 6000 year slip might suggest that the speaker is a YEC. Whodathunk?
Also: would love to see you call at the fucking Confederate flags flying across the southern part of this country as “a serious deficiency of judgment by your organization, one not limited to social issues.” But I'm sure that will never happen.
"6,000 years of Western Religious and moral teaching.."
Six thousand years? Remind me what year it is again, by the Gregorian Calendar? Oh, that's right. 2011 A.D., as in '2011 years after the whole birth of Jesus Christ thing'.
Now, where did that whole Jesus Christ hullaballoo take place again? Hint: It wasn't in 'the West'.
"Marshall says the homosexual behavior “celebrated” by the bank “undermines the American economy” and is a class six felony in Virginia."
Well, you'd better arrest George Dumbya Bush then, Bobby-boy.
His spunking away the stable, nay balanced economy he inherited from Clinton (with a trade surplus , no less) in two unjustifiable wars, resulting in him selling his own country to China - and the deaths of thousands of infinitely more priceless American lives in said wars - would warrant no less than him being publicly tortured to death.
To my knowledge, Dumbya is married, with kids: Heterosexual.
Your call, Bob.
Lawrence V Texas says that it is not a felony, next, since america is not a theocratic state, western religious teachings are moot.
Oh, and another thing. The Virginia "crimes against nature " law doesn't distinguish between homosexual and heterosexual acts, either by its clear language or as interpreted by the Supreme Court of Virginia. Virginia social conservatives love to leave out that fact.
The Richmond Fed’s endorsement of costly, anti-social, immoral behavior is rejected by 6,000 years of Western Religious and moral teaching
The only religions that existed in the West 6000 years ago were all Pagan religions and the Greeks (widely considered to be the founders of Western society) had no problems with homosexuals. It's your Middle Eastern religion that has sand up its ass about it.
"Religion, Religion, Religion, Mindless Bigotry, Religion, Lies, Religion."
And this bullshit is one of the main reasons why the US is such a shitty country - full of morons like this one and the one in the post above this one from Moonbattery.
And a population who more or less to some degree agree with them and is too uneducated to make up their own minds based upon facts and not mythological drivel.
[“The Richmond Fed’s endorsement of costly, anti-social, immoral behavior is rejected by 6,000 years of Western Religious and moral teaching,”]
Any fifth grader can tell you that western culture isn't six thousand years old, America wasn't an independent nation until the 18th century, and your bible was not written by King James.
Why does the quote immediately make me think of Judy Garland?
Hey, Marshall, you're not in Kansas anymore!
"Somewhere over the rainbow ..."
"Marshall says the homosexual behavior “celebrated” by the bank “undermines the American economy..."
1. How does being gay hurt the economy?
History Fail. Your religion is nowhere near 6,000 years old. Western civilization itself isn't even that old. Also, slavery was legal for most of the past 6,000 years. Do you think slavery is OK, too?
Interesting that the people that are so against central public banking are against the right of a semi-private bank to display flags as it likes.
As for being a "class 6 felony" I really doubt Virginia has a law addressing this specific of a case.
What do gay issues have to do with the economy? If you let gay people get married, there would be more business for cake makers, dress/suit/tux shops, wedding planners/photographers...it would HELP the economy, prick.
lol, you know, the religion you are pointing out has not been a western religion beyond some 200 years, right?
While Americans bear no blame for what individual outliers say or do, they should not get a pass for their elected officials.
Americans elect their representatives in both state and federal governments.
@ Veras_the_Brujah
LGBT people are minorities, there's nothing wrong with the bank flying a rainbow flag to support diversity in this way. Just as there is no controversy or hypocrisy with flying a flag in support of Black History month or a flag supporting Native American Heritage. It's not favoring certain people over another group of people because things aren't equal to begin with.
The only reason someone would really be upset over the flag is if they're a homophobe. And, in the case of this fundie, a really crazy deluded homophobe.
Yep, the guys a prick. All I can say really...
BTW some people are confusing the Richmond Fed with the Federal Reserve. I'm not sure that they are one and the same. Read the comments on the Towleroad article, the same mistake is made there.
Couple questions.
How in the love of fuck does teh ghey undermine, endanger or put the economy at risk? Everyone at the stock market having a colossal sausage fest forgetting the actual point of it? Think of it, people putting IBM stocks into male strippers thongs instead of dollars.
Second. 6000? Whatever you're smoking, I want some.
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