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Colbert’s The WORD Mocks Rhode Island Governor’s Veto, Catholic Church in DC

11/17/09- by Bridgette P. LaVictoire
Stephen Colbert had done it again. In his regular segment called The WORD, he has yet again gone after opponents to LGBT-Rights mocking them in yet another hilarious spoof “applauding” them for what they are doing, but often taking their logic into the absurd. It is the same kind of tactic that gave rise to such films as Blazing Saddles. Not long ago, the WORD thrashed the attempt in Washington to end the “All But Marriage” domestic partnership law. This time, he is going after Rhode Island governor’s decision to veto a law allowing gay and lesbian partners to arrange funerals for their loved ones and to collect their remains.

“This is an assault on marriage from beyond the grave. They’re like gay zombies,” Colbert says at one point in the segment. In another, he says “Heaven is singing in a choir in a flowing white robe, wearing little white wings, playing a harp. You know, guy stuff.”

Colbert also went after the Catholic Church for their attempt to blackmail the Washington, DC City Council by saying “I mean, they have no choice. After all, as Jesus said, ‘If you wish to be perfect, go and sell your possessions and give the money to the poor, unless a couple of dudes register at Pottery Barn, in which case, f**k the poor.’”

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