Montana MassResistance: Senator Bob Phalen, Hero of the Week

State Senator (R-Linday) filed MassResistance's Resolution Against Obergefell.

A local hate rag in Montana called him a villian.

When bad guys speak badly about you, it means that you are doing your job. Hit pieces like this mean that Sen. Phalen is over the target!

Here's the statement, and I have added commentary:

Villain of the Week- Sen. Bob Phalen (R- Lindsay)

Certain conservatives have really chosen to make anti-LGBTQ ideology a foundational part of their work this session. Our team saw this week just how far legislators will go to undermine the progress we’ve made.

 Good for them. You can't say that you want to conserve anything if you won't restore natural marriage.

Last week we mentioned SJ 15, a joint resolution calling to overturn the ruling that legalized same-sex marriage.

Yes! Obergefell v Hodges is one of the worst decisions handed down by the United States Supreme Court.

If this wasn’t abhorrent enough, the sponsor Senator Bob Phalen brought a collective gasp to the crowd that showed up to oppose this bill. After over an hour of opponent testimony. Sen. Phalen refused to back down from his hateful rhetoric. Instead, he chose to expound on the ‘anglo-American legal tradition’ and his outdated ideas on the sanctity of marriage, at one point declaring the United States Supreme Court overstepped its bounds and should ‘re-look at what they’ve done’.

 Sen. Phalen refused to back down from telling the TRUTH!

Hatemongers and other LGBT activists can't stand the truth, and it will always shock them.

Those "outdated ideas" about the sanctity of marriage and our Anglo-American legal tradition are precisely what made our country great! We need to restore those values!

He compared the unnaturalness of queer relationships to shoving a straw up your nose to drink, and said that redefining marriage has hurt children in our state. Those are words we think are appropriate to re-share, as his closing remarks were a string of bigoted comments, only made better by the disgust and snarls from community members still in the audience and the multiple objections from Vice Chair Sen. Andrea Olsen.

 I have to give "Forward Montana" some credit. They recognize that queer relationships are exactly that: queer. They are unnatural, destructive, abusive, harmful, and just plain disgusting.

And yes, undermining marriage hurts children.

There is nothing bigoted about what he said. Only bigots call the truth bigotry.

Not even the anti-LGBTQ Senate Judiciary committee cared for his ideas and voted to table SJ 15. We kindly ask that Sen. Bob Phalen, our Villain of the Week, keep his opinions on the LGBTQ community to himself.

The majority of Republicans supported the resolution, but the real villian of the week, Sen. Sue Vinton of Billings, killed the resolution.

She's a spiteful woman and a bad mother, whose daughter is in a "gay" relationship. Child abuse!

But kudos to State Senator Bob Phalen for standing for truth!