Pat Buchanan Slams Same-Sex Marriage And 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Repeal In New Book

He already has a long history of upsetting both racial and social minorities, and now, MSNBC commentator Pat Buchanan is back in the headlines for rallying strongly against gay rights in his new book.

The 72-year-old former Republican presidential candidate, a regular on "The McLaughlin Group" and a "Morning Joe" commentator, slams both the U.S. military's repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" and the increasing legalization of same-sex marriage in the just-released "Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive Until 2025?"

"Indoctrination of recruits, soldiers and officers into an acceptance of the gay lifestyle will transfer authority over the military, the most respected institution in America, to agents of a deeply resented and widely detested managerial state," Buchanan is quoted by On Top Magazine as having written in the new book, which he says describes the overall "cultural collapse" of the United States and "the slow death of the people who created and ruled the nation."

But Buchanan, who served as a senior advisor to Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan, has even harsher words for same-sex marriage, as The New Civil Rights Movement notes:

Can anyone believe this absurd notion of equality was intended by or written into the constitution by the Congress that produced the 14th Amendment? Although gay marriage has been rejected in 31 states in referenda, judges continue to declare that such unions be treated as marriages. An idea of equality rejected democratically by voters is being imposed dictatorially. In December 2010, a repudiated liberal Congress imposed its San Francisco values on the Armed Forces, by ordering homosexuals admitted to all branches of the service. Indoctrination of recruits, soldiers, and officers into an acceptance of the gay lifestyle will transfer authority over the military, the most respected institution in America, to agents of a deeply-​resented and widely detested managerial state.

Buchanan's ultra-conservative take on LGBT issues is nothing new; he's previously referred to gays as "sodomites" who are "literally hell-bent on Satanism and suicide." Of course, it isn't just his views on LGBT rights that are generating controversy; he also takes a particularly critical stance on U.S. race relations among other subjects, arguing that blacks and whites were actually more unified during the 1950s than they are today. "What we had then, which was a sense of cultural and social one-ness, we were a people, that I think that is what's being lost," he is quoted as saying before noting that the use of hyphenated terms like "African-American" have actually been detrimental to the anti-segregation cause.

Hear Buchanan read from "Suicide of a Superpower" here:

Comments

[jory420]

11:40 PM on 11/08/2011

And the problem with that is??

[wvprogressive2011]

12:49 PM on 11/07/2011

And I'm glad. Civil rights must be upheld by any means necessary. If means isolating and enraging a large sect of society, they can get over it.

[Nick Walden Poublon]

11:02 PM on 11/03/2011

Pat who?

[rockysparks]

04:42 AM on 11/01/2011

If Buchanan's extremist views opposing same-sex marriage are the only ones MSNBC can find to help balance out prevailing feelings about the issue, then it's obvious that opposition to gay marriage is on the retreat and only the elderly lunatic fringe is left to defend discrimination.

Pat Buchanan. C'mon, Religious Right --- is THAT all you got left? Point awarded to Adam and Steve and Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas in unmixed doubles matches ...

[TXanimal]

05:19 PM on 10/31/2011

Pat, you're an irrelevant old dinosaur. Please go away.

[unimatrix0]

12:04 AM on 10/29/2011

Not suprising for a man in the 1980's who called for HIV+ gay men to be quarentined. He does not support basic rights, let a lone equal rights. A Bill of Rights is to protect people from governments trying to be too conservative, and minorities from the majority. Would love to see Pat's rights voted on by any minority group and see how he feels about it.

The majority is by nature looking to stay in power, which is what inter-racial marriage was about (in part). White society did not want black spouses and mixed race children to inherit wealth that use to be in the white society pool of power.

Roe v. Wade is based on a woman's right to privacy, yet many states keep this law on the books, knowing men have greater Dr./patient confidentiality than women do. And the US Constitution only grants rights to people BORN, which a fetus is not. A religious majority would take away women's rights to privacy. Try to pass a law for men testing positive for an STD to notify their wife, and it would be killed faster than a same-sex marriage bill in Utah. Yet there are bills for women to notify spouses and/or parents of their abortion, birth control, or sterilization all the time.

[John L Myers IV]

09:55 PM on 10/28/2011

I've been married 23 years and I'm sure his mind my marriage isn't legitimate since we were married in front of a judge and not in a church. And we had two handsome healthy liberal American sons, Pat! One starting college the other graduating Suma Cum Laude and going to Law School next year. Their generation accepts homosexuality as the norm and they don't see color. They, and people like them are the future of this great country. So in a way you are right; it is "the slow death of the people that created and ruled the nation". But only because your generation is dieing off too slowly! Let go Pat! And don't bother looking for the light! Just walk toward the smell of sulfur!

[practiceempathy]

05:11 PM on 10/31/2011

John, you rock.

[John L Myers IV]

09:47 PM on 10/28/2011

Thank God he and his generation, people that feel comfortable being racists and homophobes, will be dieing off soon.

[jory420]

11:42 PM on 11/08/2011

Amen!!!

[SomewhereInLeftField]

05:24 PM on 10/28/2011

"Can anyone believe this absurd notion of equality was intended by or written into the constitution by the Congress that produced the 14th Amendment? Although gay marriage has been rejected in 31 states in referenda, judges continue to declare that such unions be treated as marriages. An idea of equality rejected democratically by voters is being imposed dictatorially."

Substitute the word "interracial" for the word "gay" and you have exactly what proponents of miscegenation laws were saying after the Court struck those laws down in Loving v. Virginia.

Clearly, race and sexual orientation are different, but it seems to me that the same people who oppose interracial marriage also oppose marriage equality, and they use the same tired talking points for both positions.

[Garrett W]

07:17 PM on 10/30/2011

EXACTLY!!!! That is a wonderful point!! I wonder if the GOP candidates think about this? Like when Santorum was asked (on FOX of all places) if he agreed with the following and he, of course, agreed: “The Army is not a sociological laboratory. Experimenting with Army policy, especially in time of war would pose a danger to efficiency, disciple and moral and would result in ultimate defeat.” which -as I'm sure yall remember- was a statement made about blacks entering the military; I'll bet Buchanan would agree too.

I just have to shake my head and try to channel Barack Obama's, I'll wait until the playing field gets smaller, before I start getting too hot about these sensation, down-right ludicrous remarks.

As far of those glad people like Buchanan are "dying off" I hope they don't too soon. We're making such progress that even if they don't appreciate it, they should at least see it. I am seeing leaps and bounds of progress, I've just learned that sometimes I have to look around to see it.

[BrettCottrell]

02:17 PM on 10/28/2011

Pat Buchanan just needs more white paint.

With chapters titled “The End of White America” and “The White Party,” readers of Pat Buchanan’s new book might be misled into believing that the former presidential candidate is calling for a race war at worst or resegregation at best. But, such a reading is simplistic and misses the finer point.

Pat Buchanan simply needs more white paint. White paint to whitewash history, to coat Black America with a glossy sheen; a fresh coat for the Jews and Arabs. White paint to cover the black streets and black beans – the Chicago Blackhawks and the Cleveland Browns! Why, with enough white paint he could finally get the Black Hills and Blacksburg – they’ve been a thorn in his palate for years.

I, for one, feel for Buchanan. It must be terrible to have such a love of a color, and to be so short of paint. So please, America, send Pat Buchanan your White Paint today! Have it delivered to MSNBC.

[Lois Eisenberg]

12:13 AM on 10/28/2011

Every time I see the man on T.V. I cringe !! He is so hateful that the hate spews from his eyebrows.

[midwstrner]

12:10 AM on 10/28/2011

The more these people talk (extreme right wingers, like Pat, Rush, Cain etc etc), the more I wonder why they live in America instead of some country like Iran where they'd be happy with the rules that really inject religious idiocy into government (they really want a dictatorship here frankly, as long as it's theirs).

We should trade people like Pat etc, for those that are oppressed and persecuted in other countries for their sexuality and lack of following rules of some moronic religion. It would be a win win situation and instead of focusing on what people do in private or believe or don't believe in, we could actually work on fixing the country instead of funneling the wealth to the wealthiest (trickle up economics).

[Cameron Huff]

07:21 PM on 10/27/2011

I listened to Mr. Buchanan the other day on the Diane Rehm show on NPR. Totally amazing. His take on gay people, as with most other issues, was a strong desire to have things go back "the way they used to be".
Although he couldn't say it, I guess that means he'd also like to see black folks shut us and go back to work cleaning our houses and raising our children "just like it used to be" before all this civil rights stuff.
This man has nothing to contribute to the National discussion and is now, officially, irrelevant.

[Lisa DAlia]

06:30 PM on 10/27/2011

God my have created gay people but he also created pedophiles, and incestual sex molesters too.
Your argument is absurd. Behavior is chosen by ALL the people God created. everytime a person contracts a disease, it should remind one that they played a role in bringing about that disease. Also, consider the fact that disease is an unnatural state brought on by an action or inaction, namely cancer and heart disease. Ask any biologist if disease is good or healthy. So obviously we know the answer already so if it's unhealthy then a behavior that caused the disease state can not be healthy or natural either. Just use your deduction cababilities!

[TXanimal]

05:22 PM on 10/31/2011

Homosexuality, unlike pedophelia, harms no one, therefore your comparison isn't valid.

Homosexuality isn't "unhealthy".

Homosexuality is perfectly natural for homosexuals. If it's not natural for you, then don't participate.

[Lisa DAlia]

10:21 PM on 10/31/2011

My argument is factually valid because homosexuality is a BEHAVIOR (even if you're born that way) and a mutable one at that. One can change status from homosex. to heterosex.,to bi-sex. transgender. it's unlike race or ethnicity which are immutable statuses. I find it interesting that you can't seem to find a valid cohesive argument to challenge my argument about the disease it produces. As I stated in my original comment, nothing that brings on or causes a disease can be healthy so the homosex. lifestyle is not valid on that point alone. No one in their right mind could argue that it's healthy and normal to get HIV and we all know the main cause of that disease is homosexual practice as well as IV drug use. So what are you going to assert? that IV drug use is bad but being gay is good, yet they both lead to the same disease? You're just in denial.

[ernie3]

09:56 PM on 10/26/2011

Truly shameful that so many conservatives twist and pervert the Bible and trash the Constitution in order to justify their own ignorance and prejudice.