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| Indianapolis realtor and gay activist Kevin Warren (Nuvo/Mark Lee Photo) |
Nuvo story here.
UPDATE: This seems to be a popular trend among gay activists. In the images below, several gay activists are shown flipping the middle finger to portraits of Republican presidents at the White House.
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| Philly Mag Photo |
21 comments:
I guess i won't be using a vile fellow as this to do my realty business
Amber Stearns should apologize for saying Rosa Parks and this repugnant clown is somehow similar.
I read the Nuvo article about the man behind the signs and I have to say I couldn’t agree with Mr. Warren more. I also believe Pence must go. And I think Mr. Warren articulates the reasons beautifully. I definitely won’t vote for Pence again. And I may buy a sign.
A Roman emperor appointed his horse to the Roman Senate. Are we almost there?
My political beliefs about Mike Pence are unfavorable; I am a metro Indy LGBT member, out and proud.
Kevin Warren in this photo actually makes me ashamed.
Mike Pence almost single handedly turned our State into a national sideshow and at least half of the citizens think he's a horse's ass. Don't blame ordinary businessmen if they feel compelled to join the political fracas because of the debacle Pence crafted. I'm no fool and I've decided for myself the Governor has to go. We'll see who has the votes, of course. But I'll take Gregg over Pence now that I see what drives the man. He just doesn't have what it takes to represent everybody. The young people don't like him. They think he's a dinosaur. This guy Warren isn't running for anything. He can give Pence the finger if he wants. Frankly, I couldn't agree with him more. He embarrassed the state on a national stage, ruined his own political ambitions for higher office, and his poll numbers are in the toilet. Don't blame the messenger.
MIBOR has brought REALTORS up on Grievance and Ethics charges for far less than what I see in this photo. THIS is the image the Metropolitan Indianapolis Board of REALTORS desires to present to realty consumers?!?
Uh, no, I would not be employing Mr. Kevin Warren of local realty brokerage United Real Estate in the sale of my home nor in the purchase of my next. In contract negotiations, who the hell would take this guy- who would be my fiduciary- seriously?
If I were the principals at United Real Estate I might be compelled to ask Mr. Warren to take his image and his middle finger and hit the road.
What is truly sad about this is that Mr. Warren's gaggle of left liberal gay flunkies will consider this pose an effective and honorable method punctuating how tolerant and non-hateful they all are. Uh, I don't think so....
Pence did not single-handedly turn the state into a sideshow. Overwhelming majorities of the House and Senate voted to send the RFRA legislation to his desk for consideration. Nobody bothered to even voice objections to the bill until it was half way through the second legislative chamber. That's when the flash mob occurred. This law was made into something it had never been characterized as doing when it was enacted by Congress and signed into law by President Bill Clinton or more than half of the states in the union. People decided Indiana was going to be played and made an example to behold for anyone who would dare defend their religious liberties. We can debate the motives of those behind these attacks, but those facts are indisputable. People are being played for fools. Nothing new. It seems to be the American Way. Go out and cheer your favorite sports team. Keep up with the Kardashians. And don't make any attempt to learn what your government is really doing to you as Rome burns.
Gary- THANK YOU for another lucid, truthful, and effective rebuttal to the almost always emotional, usually unproved claims made by left liberal loons [in this instance to Anon 1:13].
As much as I no longer care for Mike Penc and as much as I think his rush to explain himself in his signature of the RFRA was a public relations disaster and an image of his imediate cowering to hateful, intolerant bullies, the truth is exactly what you presented.
I am one gay individual who says, "Thank God for Gary Welsh and Advance Indiana".
Anon 1:13, no the people who turned Indiana into a sideshow were people like Freedom Indiana who decided to spread ridiculous lies about what RFRA would do without a shred of proof in support of their claims. Then you had a very irresponsible media which simply passed along those lies and repeated the "license to discriminate" claim when there was not a single RFRA case anywhere in the country in which a RFRA overrode the application of an anti-discrimination law to deny service. Pence told the truth about RFRA and was vilified by people who weren't interested in the truth.
Mike Pence was warned over and over again before that bill was finalized that it was going to be problematic, that it didn’t address gay concerns over discrimination, and that it could be a flash point, but he chose to stick his head in the sand. I personally called Senator Pat Miller well before it was sent to the Governor and told her I was offended by the bill, that I considered it anti-gay, and that I thought it was a terrible idea for Indiana, but she just pooh-poohed it and denied it was backlash for the court ruling for gay marriage in Indiana. We have not spoken since. And I still feel lied to and deceived by my Republican representatives about the true, calculated anti-gay subtext of that religious freedom law. The polls are showing huge drops in Pence’s favorability numbers and that is a direct result of his miscalculation on the ramifications of this bill. I just about choked when I saw who was up there with him on that signing stage. Don’t tell me this had nothing to do with the marriage ruling and conservative backlash. You can’t see the forest for the trees. Every gay person in this State ought to be giving Pence the finger. He’s “disappointed” in the U.S. Supreme Court ruling granting same sex marriage. So I guess we won’t be seeing Mike Pence at any gay weddings. But, oh, he’s offended if someone gives him the finger for being anti gay or puts out a sign saying “Pence must go”. He’s a bigot. At his age he ought to appreciate hearing the truth.
To Anonymous 1:17 and Gary. While your comments are reasonable, please consider the way that the Governor elected to sign the original RFRA bill. By choosing to be surrounded by Eric Miller and others who offered statements as misleading (on the other end of the spectrum, of course) about what would happen if this legislation did NOT pass, the Governor essentially decided to fan the flames and add some extra fuel to the proverbial fire. No, the Governor didn't actually extend his middle finger, but the impact of the photograph wasn't much different.
This isn't about who love; but who hates who. The real story here is what's being done to people of faith under guise or the perversion of "tolerance."
The Bible says what it says about all manner of sin. Christians are acknowledged sinners who seek salvation as prescribed in the good book; taught to love fellow sinners but hate the sin. Those who don't like what the Bible says, are willing to do everything from misrepresent to ban it, and / or destroy its adherents; Jews & Christians.
We live in an age of faux-gressive narcissism & narcissists lack the self awareness to consider much beyond themselves.
Notice the pathetic absence of any sense or real world proportion. What message does this "brave professional" have for middle eastern terrorists who throw gay people off of buildings (something the Governor & RFRA supporters denounce)?
"Overwhelming majorities of the House and Senate voted to send the RFRA legislation to his desk for consideration"
THANK YOU, GARY!!!! Everyone seems to forget that. How about they publish the list of everyone who voted for it.
As for this guy?? Real CLASS! Not
I won't defend the optics of how Pence handled the signing of the bill. The fact is that he had already given the sponsors his word that he would sign the law long before anyone expressed any concerns about the legislation. He didn't initiate the legislation; that was done by a group of lawmakers, who had the support of the leaders in the Senate and House and the rank-and-file members of the caucus. How could Indiana get trashed in a way that escaped the majority of other states which had actually enacted amendments to their state constitutions prohibiting same-sex marriage unlike Indiana for passing a law that existed at the federal level for two decades and had already been adopted by the vast majority of states? It was a psyop on the public, pure and simple. It had nothing to do with the actual law passed by the General Assembly; it had everything to do with a cultural agenda driven by multi-national corporations who aren't satisfied with merely controlling our country economically. They want total control over every aspect of our lives, and feigned efforts advancing equality serves as a useful head fake to distract people from their real agenda.
As a life long Republican I really do not care if Pence's political career goes down in flames! His refusal to remove the Daniels stooges from his admin and his repeated ineptitude in office are reasons enough to reject him for any office! This idiot in NUVO is beneath contempt! Hopefully we can keep a Daniels hack out of the governor's office!
People like this clown talk about tolerance but spew hate. They project that hatred to their enemies when, in reality, they are merely looking in the mirror. This is not a happy man. He is the perfect spokesman for the gay community. I read the Nuvo comments. All three of them. These people have no clue as to how most people view them.
To Anon 8:30:
First of all and most importantly, REALTOR KEVIN WARREN DOES NOT SPEAK FOR AND IS NOT REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ENTIRE INDIANAPOLIS METRO AREA LGTB COMMUNITY.
I am an LGBT who is familiar with Mr. Warren. I happen to disagree with Warren's politics just as I disagree with his methods. I believe you are correct that Mr. Warren is not a happy man. Knowing what I know, it's my opinion that Mr. Warren is battling personal demons from the past with his contemporaneous political fights.
From one who has long peered through these liberals' mirrors to see the other side, I am amazed at the intolerance, bigotry, and hatred I've witnessed. It's just so sad that the progress the LGBT community made nationally and locally over the last sixty years is being quickly eradicated by these far left haters. Most people do not give a fig if a person is LGBT but non-LGBT bristle -and understandably so- when having LGBT issues crammed down their throats. I am one American LGBT who will not deny other Americans the right to believe as they wish.
We are far deep in George Orwell territory.
LGBT here. Just saw the update w/pic and these pathetic actions do not represent me or many other LGBT like me. If my community should be giving anyone the finger, it should be to left liberal Democrats. No political party has more used my community to further their agenda than the Democrat Party, in my opinion. Why? When the Democrat Party had complete ownership of Capitol Hill and the White House between 2008 and 2012 when they could pass ANY legislation unstoppable by the opposition they did not- and in years past when they enjoyed significant majorities in Congress and with a Democrat President, did they ever pass any real legislation for "LGBT rights"? Hell no they didn't. And why not? Well, then what LGBT rights issue(s) would career leftist Democrats have to fund raise?
I am with the new idea of freedom advanced during the Enlightenment and espoused by Locke and Burke: our rights are ours and they exist for the fact that we are alive. Our "rights" do not come from government but it is that "government" can only exist through the rights we concede to governing bodies. But with the Constitutional Republic dead... the worst is upon us.
And I am so damn sick of hearing that intolerant bore Kathy Griffin spew about "her" gay community; she uses LGBT to amass a huge fortune that affords her 1%-er status. I have news for that sick chick.. I am not "hers" and she and those like her would be incredibly surprised to find out just how tired we are of her and those like her (Kate Clinton comes to mind).
The hate continues from the left, there starting to push and shove, I'm waiting for the next shoe to drop and the violence to start from these haters.
This is another attack on the constitution, Alinsky's rules are working!
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