Jim DeMint Against Gay Teachers. And Straight Ones!

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Okay, I'm pretty sure I have this nutty political season figured out. Andy Kaufman isn't dead. As rumored, he really did fake his own death, and has over many years engineered the rise of the Tea Party, and all the wackadoodles who are either in it, or are pandering to them.  It's a brilliant work of art! Janeane Garofalo has a theory that Andy Kaufman's current guise is as Ann Coulter. She might not be far off!

But back to Jim DeMint. Now, he's not super-crazy attacking the idea of gay teachers. It's fairly retro, but the anti-gay element of the current crop of conservatives is still going strong. But suggesting that single mothers shouldn't teach?  That's just nuts.  And what about the single fathers?  Shouldn't you go after them too?  Andy, did you hear about this one. . .?

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DeMint: Sexually Active Unmarried Women And Gay Teachers Should Be Barred From Classrooms

Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) says that even though "no one" came to his defense in 2004 after he said that gay people and unwed mothers should be banned from teaching, "everyone" quietly told him that he shouldn't back down from his position. . .

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