I’ve been trying to wrap my brain around this for quite some time, but still no luck.
According to the likes of George W. Bush, Sarah Palin, and everyone else who supports a ban on gay marriage, the following is true:
A coke-addicted, bar-fighting, gun-totin’, redneck, seven-outstanding warrant-havin’ outlaw of a male getting married to a meth-addicted, STD-carrying, welfare-receiving female, and then those two gems of society having 11 kids before splitting up and going on to sire 13 more children between the two of them with some equally repugnant second and third spouses…
is preferred to…
a couple of boring, quiet, middle-aged, go-to-work-and-then-go-home, male accountants or pharmacists, or whatever profession they work in, getting “married”, even if it’s called a civil union, and having the same rights as the two losers described above. Two guys who’ve been sharing a house for 30 years, have always quietly paid their taxes, have never been in trouble with the law, and don’t bother a single other living being.
Do I have that about right?
2 responses so far ↓
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Peo Proud
// Sep 15, 2008 at 6:03 pm
Ah…good use of extreme distortions of the positions! But your point is made….as a long time “R” – this is one position that I completely disagree with them on. I think that ALL “mergers between two individuals” in the United States should be classified as civil unions – since the state is sanctioning the action and then those so inclined can be “sanctioned” by their “house of worship” of choice (if they so choose) and call it a marriage.
It may be semantics – but I can’t find a reason for the government to prevent two loving individuals from becoming one. Individual religions – yes – but the government – no. And I’d support each individual religion’s right to not support the blessing of actions by two individuals of the same sex.
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bjstone
// Sep 16, 2008 at 8:02 pm
Yep, I did use an extreme case, but only one: the guy/girl one.
But like you sai, the point was made. And thank you for your dead-on comment, which echoes the feelings of a majority of Americans, lefties and righties alike, who can see the ridiculousness of the far right and evangelicals (wait, that’s a bit redundant in most cases, sorry) in this situation.
And of course, it’s far from the only situation where the extreme right is extremely wrong. But I don’t have time to list them all tonight.
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