Remarkable quotes from people who ought to know better including Pat Robertson, Barbara Espinosa, Nanette Billings, Ron Reale and others.
â[T]he union of two men doesnât bring forth anything except disease and suffering, and the same thing with the union of two women.â
âEvangelical preacher PAT ROBERTSON, on the May 15 episode of the Christian Broadcasting Networkâs âThe 700 Clubâ
âI donât believe in calling him the first black president â I call him the first monkey president. I voted for the white guy myself.â
âPhoenix KFNX host BARBARA ESPINOSA, in comments on her âHair on Fireâ radio show first publicized on June 16 that she later said couldnât be racist because of her last name
âyou are an idiot. ⊠Do you know you cant procreate right? Well thank goodness for that.â
âNANETTE BILLINGS, wife of Washington County (Utah) Republican Party Chairman Willie Billings, to openly gay GOP presidential candidate Fred Karger in a June 16 E-mail she later added to by saying Karger was only running to âfind more [sexual] partnersâ
âIf putting illegal children in school is now the ticket illegals are depending on to continue their rape of America, then someone has to put a stop to it.â
âBlogger RON REALE, in a June 20 commentary posted at the Center for Western Journalism, known for spawning the conspiracy-minded WorldNetDaily ânewsâ site
âWe are much like the Titanic as we inbreed millions of Mexicoâs poor, the worldâs poor and we watch our country sink.â
âRecalled Arizona state Senate President RUSSELL PEARCE, the author of the stateâs punishing anti-immigrant S.B. 1070 law, in a 2007 E-mail publicized by the ACLU on July 17
âLiberals and ethnic activists boast about how America would be better if it were more Latino, but no one else is allowed to say, âWe like the ethnic mix as it is.ââ
âRight-wing author ANN COULTER, who in the same July 18 blog post wrote that California had been âdestroyedâ by the loss of a white majority in 2000
âPut troops on the border and start shooting. I bet that solves our immigration problem real quick.â
âOhioâs SAMUEL WURZELBACHER, better known as Obama critic âJoe the Plumber,â in Aug. 11 comments at a rally in Prescott, Ariz.
âIslam is systematically violent and hateful. ⊠âCommon humanityâ should reject the murderous, perverted teachings and actions of Mohammed.â
âA Sept. 17 essay from the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission, whose founder and president is GARY CASS, seeming to contradict the groupâs own name