Bigotry

Page Notes
'This page is getting a makeover. See the new category-specific pages:'
 * Atheism
 * Racism
 * Sexuality

Quick Summary

 * Conservatives are overwhelmingly white and Christian. They tend to dislike people outside these two categories, including but not limited to those with different political beliefs, races, religions, and sexual orientation.

Race
"If a restaurant does not want to serve black people it should not have to; the Civil Rights Act should not apply to private businesses."
 * A number of conservatives believe Obama is a Muslim, and that is why he should be opposed (even though he's not actually a Muslim in the first place).
 * Herb Degroft, Isle of Wight school board member, used his county e-mail account to send e-mails with pictures of African female warriors, saying it Michelle Obama's high school reunion, and saying Michelle Obama was paid $50 to model for National Geographic.
 * Gordon Warren Epperly filed a lawsuit to block Obama from Alaska's ballot because of his race.
 * The Rutland County GOP of Vermont posted a note on their Facebook page saying, "Just wanted to let you know -- today I received my 2012 Social Security Stimulus Package. It contained two tomato seeds, cornbread mix, a prayer rug, a machine to blow smoke up my butt, 2 discount coupons to KFC, an "Obama Hope & Change" bumper sticker, and a "Blame it on Bush" poster for the front yard. The directions were in Spanish. Watch for yours soon."
 * Arkansas state legislator Republican Jon Hubbard wrote that slavery may have been a "blessing" in a book.
 * Pastor Terry Jones of Florida lynched an effigy of President Obama in front of a church.
 * Arizonans protesting at an Obama event sang songs with the words bye bye black sheep while complaining about the half-white Muslim.
 * Notoriously conservative "musician" Ted Nugent says black Americans should be profiled like dogs.
 * Republican radio host Rush Limbaugh says that of all races, Caucasians are the one that shouldn't feel guilty about slavery.
 * Colorado state legislator Republican Vicki Marble says black people are in poverty because of barbeque and fried chicken.
 * Rand Paul, Republican Senator of Kentucky; above statement is a summary of much longer quotes

Slavery is "not significant" and "doesn't amount to diddly."
 * Haley Barbour, current Governor of Mississippi and former Republican National Committee Chairman

"Black people don't want to work as hard as white people."
 * Republican Representative Sally Kern of Oklahoma City

Nathan Bedford Forrest, the first Grand Wizard of the KKK, was considered for a Mississippi state issued license plate.
 * This plan was pushed for by the Sons of Confederate Veterans, a conservative group glorifying the pro-slavery South in a deeply conservative state.

"if you're that hypersensitive about color and don't have a sense of humor, don't marry out of your race."
 * Doctor Laura, conservative talk show host

"We Coloreds have taken a vote and decided that we don't cotton to that whole emancipation thing. Freedom means having to work for real, think for ourselves, and take consequences along with the rewards. That is just far too much to ask of us Colored People and we demand that it stop!"
 * Mark Williams, Tea Party leader; initially claimed his statement was satire but later refused to answer questions about it. He also has refused to distance the Tea Party from its racist elements.

It is acceptable to call black Congressmen "niggers."
 * Tea Party activists were documented using racial and sexual slurs against black and gay Congressmen after health reform was passed

Fewer than 10 minorities pictured in Republicans' "Pledge to America" in which hundreds of white people were shown.

Gender

 * Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant blames America's education problems on allowing women in the workplace.

Religion

 * Signs saying "NO MUSLIM Parking" were posted around a Houston, Texas shopping mall, warning that Muslims' vehicles would be towed.


 * Mosques are places for "animals of Allah" to worship "the terrorists' monkey-god."
 * Mark Williams, Tea Party leader
 * "Just like his evil muslim communist USURPER comrad, barrack hussein obama, This goyle character is just another 'turban topper' we don't need in congress or any political office that deals with the U.S. Constitution, Christianity and the United States of America!!!"  --Mike Pompeo, Republican Representative of Kansas; though not written by Pompeo himself, his campaign tweeted this quote to his supporters
 * Islam is "an antichrist religion that intends through violence to conquer the world."   --Rod Parsley, Reverend who served as Republican Presidential Candidate John McCain's "spiritual guide"; Islam is neither antichrist nor advocates violence (at least no more than Christianity itself does), making Parsley a liar.
 * America may become "a secular atheist country, potentially one dominated by radical Islamists."  --Newt Gingrich, leader of "Republican Revolution" in the U.S. House during the 1990s; candidate in 2012 Republican U.S. Presidential Primary; statement displays surprising level of idiocy; atheists and radical Islamists have very little in common and generally very low tolerance of one another
 * Above statement was made at Cornerstone Church led by John Hagee; Hagee himself stated the following:  "'God says in Jeremiah 16: 'Behold, I will bring them the Jewish people again unto their land that I gave to their fathers. ... Behold, I will send for many fishers, and after will I send for many hunters. And they the hunters shall hunt them.' That would be the Jews. ... Then God sent a hunter. A hunter is someone who comes with a gun and he forces you. Hitler was a hunter"
 * The above statement was widely believed to be a way of politely saying Hitler was performing God's will in forcing the Jews back to Israel.

Sexuality
Homosexuality is "the biggest threat our nation has, even more so than terrorism or Islam."
 * Republican Representative Sally Kern of Oklahoma City

It is acceptable to call Congressmen "faggots."
 * Tea Party activists were documented using racial and sexual slurs against black and gay Congressmen after health reform was passed