“NO PLACE FOR JUVENILE HOMOPHOBIA IN U.S. SENATE RACE”
Former S.C. Treasurer Thomas Ravenel today issued the following statement in response to homophobic rhetoric used this week at a political rally held by four of U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham’s Republican challengers:
“Our wallets and our pocketbooks – and the wallets and pocketbooks of our children and grandchildren – don’t care if our elected officials are black or white, male or female or gay or straight. So I have a simple question: Why should we?
America is $17.4 trillion in debt, our fundamental freedoms are under attack, our economy is stuck in neutral, our government-run schools are falling further behind the rest of the world and our military-industrial complex still thinks it can act as the world’s policeman.
Rather than substantively address these issues – GOP candidates want to make gay jokes.
Frankly there is no place for this sort of juvenile homophobia in a United States Senate race – and the Republican Party should be ashamed of itself for fostering such hateful, narrow-minded views.
In the same vein, though, I would condemn the bigotry Lindsey Graham has repeatedly demonstrated in banning openly gay soldiers from serving in the U.S. Armed Forces. This discriminatory policy resulted in the discharge of roughly 114,000 servicemen and women from 1940-2011 – and many of these veterans are still waiting for their rights to be restored.
South Carolinians deserve a real debate this fall over who would best represent their interests in the United States Senate – but that debate is never going to take place until we acknowledge that all South Carolinians deserve to be a part of it.
Clearly the Republican Party hasn’t figured that out yet.
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FITSNEWS.com = AllT-RAVPowerboating ALLTHETIME.COM
His shirt is NYPD. Shouldn’t that be SCDC?
More like USBOP.
Disclosure: Thomas Ravenel paid for this to be here. FITS “editor” Will Folks most likely “wrote” all of it.
Disclosure: Thomas Ravenel is taking a strong stand because he ain’t that different from Lindsey and this hit too close to home.
Will probably gave him a discount bulk rate, judging by the number of articles written about him lately.
You know you are a nothing in SC politics when the only person giving you attention is Will Folks. It’s like the kiss of irrelevancy.
T-RAV must swing both ways?
“Prison changes a man…”
deep
T-RAV – SWOON.
I never realized until I read this “news” article how powerful Graham is. He was born in 1955 but is responsible for banning openly gay soldiers from serving in the US Armed Services from 1940-1955 when he wasn’t even alive.
Hey man lay off!Youre trying to confuse Fits with the facts?
Yes, but he is resposible for those since 1955. Homophobia is something you born with.
He does it all of the time. We’ve tried to tell him, but he’s just stubborn. Facts have a short shelf life in a lot of FITS pieces (especially if they’re about Ravenel, written by the Lazenby woman, or involve Ron Paul. I guess we can add ol’ Sugarbritches Graham to that list now.
Ever since you’ve been slinking around with “T” and Branton…you”ve been very harsh on Ron apaul!!
BYW, TBG is FINE.
Nothing is wrong, ok?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJkBvSYF_GU
You continue to defame me by associating me with the asshat wing of the FITS commentator community! Something is very, very wrong…
Sure, TBG doesn’t have the “mad shift key skillz”or the preternatural ability to link any malady to POTUS Obama that *grits teeth*…that homewrecker “T” has. And….no….TBG is n-n-not a Gamecock…..*breaks down*
*sobs*
*gets it back together*
Nor does TBG have the modern day Clauswitzian/Rasputinian geo-political smarts of *spits out name* Philip Branton!!!
But what we had was REAL!!! And you selfishly threw it all away!!!!!!! For those smooth commenting….KEYBOARD JOCKEYS!!
*sniffs*
TBG is FINE.
Dammit!!
Just needs someone to commiserate with…
*Googles Jenny Sanford’s #*
Dude, are you turning into a chic? It won’t be long and you’ll be asking, “Does this paragraph make me look fat?” We can be OK again right now- just forswear the paranoid delusion that I have somehow swung over the to the Branton / Tango dark side. hell, I don’t even know the Branton dud eis saying 85% of the time in his posts, and Tango?! Really?!! isn’t there some corollary of Godwin’s law tha tcovers references to commiseration with GT? If not, there should be. What’s next, that you guys saw me snorting a line off of Ravenel’s foyer table? I tell my real wife (as opposed to blog wife???) all of the time; we can disagree on stuff, it’s OK. Doesn’t mean we’re done or that one of us is stupid. Let me see if I can cover the bases here now as in a real marriage: No, I don’t hate your mother. Yes, you still look great in that bikini. Of course I would love to go antiquing with you all day on Saturday, and maybe even hit the mall on the way home. There, can we be OK now? Do I have to do a Juan Pablo and tell you that “You…are…uh-may-sing?” OK, you are uh-may-sing! Everything is good!
We can be OK again right now- just forswear the paranoid delusion that I have somehow swung over the to the Branton / Tango dark side.
Consider it foreswoon, mate.
Ah, all is well on the home front. I will no doubt still piss you off on Ron Paul occasionally, but it’s all good!
Stop it! My ribs are killin’ me….
I think Tom Raven-ous (appetite for drugs) needs to tell the Gay lobby to STFU…or STFU himself…
Because most gays parade and DEMAND you recognize their Gayness as a Civil Right..They’d be P!$$#d at Ravenel as a Gay-basher for denying them their right to tell us that they deserve more privileges than more stable and responsible Americans…
Give it up Will.
Shut up T-Rav you fag.
Norma Scok condemns Ravenel’s dooshbaggery
I guess straight soldiers didn’t want to serve in the same units with gays. With 114,000 they could form ten divisions all of their own. That would give Russia something to think about.
Ten gay divisions invade Crimea. Homophobic Russians flee. Set up the first gay republic. Obama recognizes it immediately.
Correction, second gay republic. I forgot about France.
Hey! Don’t pile on the French! Haven’t they suffered enough for being skeptical about the reasons for the war in Iraq?
I am not piling on. I give the French credit where credit is due.
well… okay then!
ROFLMAO!!
I swear, T-Rav is like a bad case of VD that won’t go away on this site.
Considering the amount of publicity this boy gets, as compared to Mace, Sanford, Duncan, Mulvaney, Bill Wilson, Howard Rich, and other Cato/ALG clowns, he must pay quite handsomely. Either that, or Willie’s really trolling his audience good. Perhaps both? Hmm…
T-Rav is that rare character that brings us all together. Libs, dems, repubs, RINOs, independents, libertarians, big-t-bag, hindus — we all think he’s a douche that needs to go away.
I never thought about that angle of his nitwittery – that’s borderline genius. Who knew all it would take was a single world-class, hubris-filled, narcissistic jackass to finally unite FITSworld?
I think he’s sharing his blow and his ho with the editor.
Hey, leave my name out of this.
Where do you think all those $5 bills that Trav’s father has such a problem with are going?
“Our wallets and our pocketbooks – and the wallets and pocketbooks of our children and grandchildren – don’t care if our elected officials are black or white, male or female or gay or straight. So I have a simple question: WHO’S HOLDING THE COCAINE?
It’s in the boat.
leave us gays alone
“Juvenile homophobia”
Looked like”all growed up” homophobia to TBG….
Maybe the rest of the Republican Party needs to snort some coke – it appears that it cures homophobia.
That’s good shit right there…
Looks like this site is going to be all T Rav all the time.
I never realized how many douche bags post on this site! Thomas made a very important point and most of you want to refer to his conviction for a crime he admitted to and was never caught with any drugs. Just ghost dope! Yes prison does change a man. In most cases for the better. Gives the educated man time to think and reflect, something most of you who have posted are not (educated) and have not (reflected).
I’ve used that ghost dope.. it’s pretty good shit!
They can’t see us…we’re in the spirit world…..
They hate it that we can see them!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh-AiPTubJo
“I never realized how many douche bags post on this site!” and yet you claim to be able to judge the education of a man.
Yes prison does change a man. In most cases for the better. Gives the educated man time to think and reflect,
Sidi….zat you?
“Thomas made a very important point and most of you want to refer to his conviction for a crime he admitted to and was never caught with any drugs.”
You’re evidently on some of Ravenel’s high-grade stuff. Important point? Uh, no. Some idiot (who 95% of voters have never even heard of) squeaks off some weird and slightly offensive gay slur directed at a US Senator. Who supports that level of discourse? A tiny slice of the adult populace, even here in BFE SC. No groundswell or wave of condemnation required. Then, an equally irrelevant asshat (your guy) chimes in. A likewise small slice of the populace gives a flying fuck what he says about anything. The original transgression was a mere blip on the political radar in SC, and the self-serving pandering (aided and abetted by Will’s incessant coverage of his bromance with “The Most Interesting Man in Raveneltown” isn’t even that. By the way, the “man” doesn’t have to catch you with the straw hanging out of your nose. This is especially true in federal courts where historical cases put people away for life with great regularity. Why do bring that up? Are you somehow implying that Ravenel didn’t have the coke? Didn’t distribute it as described in the federal affidavits? That his full confession and allocution were either false or coerced? Now THAT would be news. His new found zealotry in regard to Libertarianism is absolutely relevant to people judging his relevance, character, etc. Before his bust, not a peep about “buttoned-down politicians” or how dope should be legal. Why? Because he was carefully and intentionally playing the game he now decries so vehemently. That is what relevance looks like. Your guy is, in technical political science terms, an irrelevant self-absorbed jackass.
Excellent!
Hi Tom!
How much will that 20 year old redhead hit ol’ T-Rav up for in child support? That’s what we really want to know. Must make him proud to carry on ol’ Strom Thurmond’s child rearing when he’s 70-something and going to his kids high school graduation.
Maybe they have a pre-non-nup.
I bet ol’ T-Rav was more concerned about how long the Viagra was taking to start working.
Interesting choice of shirts. Did he get that souvenir after his DUI arrest in NY?
You Beat TBG to it!!
Is something from this preening prick going to be a daily feature?
Bring back the porn!
Pweez let me on your show. I will write a daily piece about you. I will suck you off, or , you know, just be my fwiend, pweez Thomas, pweez.
Sharing even more love for narcisstic aging man-child who is slowly but surely taking over FITSNews — posted here and there by me on FB:
/// Since most of you in Horry and Georgetown county who read FITSNews seem to wait for me to post the links, this is to inform you that if you give a shit at all about the opinions and current activities of Thomas (T-Rav) Ravenel Jr., you’ll now have to get those vital alerts someplace else, or seek them out yourselves. ////
What was the “gay” joke? Am I missing something?
Maybe Thomas can repudiate the bigotry of his father. On the last episode of TRav’s show, Arthur said he doesn’t like $5 bills because they have Lincoln’s picture on them. A clear reference to Lincoln’s “betrayal” in freeing the slaves. T-Rav is silent on racism?
Is this a joke or something?
To figure out the newest GOP critic of how gays are treated in the Republican Party, we watched “Southern Charm” (a misleading title to be sure) to see what Thomas Ravenel had to offer. We’re to believe that a 50-something ex-con misogynist would sit down with Richard Tisei (the Yankee gay GOPer from MA) and the word fag doesn’t cross the lips of the drunk by 10 o’clock Ravenel? Thomas and his father have no room for $5 bills because they feature the president that freed the slaves, but Thomas wants to be Senator & start a family? This is a line better off dead.
Damn wasn’t his 15 minutes up an hour ago?