Wednesday, July 14, 2004
The Very Definition of "Not Getting It"
Even though the FMA has met defeat in the Senate and will likely meet the same in the House in September, even though the American public could care about other things with greater intensity, and even though the only people who are actually following it with interest are the ones who brought it up and the ones who are directly affected by it, the GOP still thinks it has merit. A little bit of verbal diarrhea from everyone's favorite frothy mixture:
"If you support ... a mother and a father for every child, you are a hater. If you believe that men and women for 5,000 years have bonded together in marriage, you're a gay-basher. Marriage is hate. Marriage is a stain. Marriage is an evil thing. That's what we hear," said Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa.
First of all, everyone supports that a child have a mom and a dad. The only issue gay people have is that they want support for same-sex households, too. Second of all, I just happen to believe that men and women have been "bonded together" for 5000 years in the institution of marriage. Why? Because it's a fact, not an opinion. The opinion is that homosexuals should be allowed to marry their partners, too. And finally, is marriage is "hate" and "an evil thing", then why the hell would we be trying to get it?
There was a car bomb in Iraq that killed 11 people, a sign of increased insurgency. We found flaws in the very logic in going into Iraq. And people think that the most important issue facing America is a near-death amendment that would enshrine the creation of second class citizens in the very document that represents America, just because people think that the other option is an unproven, shaky hypothesis about men eventually marrying sheep? Pardon the vulgarity, but fuck that.
"If you support ... a mother and a father for every child, you are a hater. If you believe that men and women for 5,000 years have bonded together in marriage, you're a gay-basher. Marriage is hate. Marriage is a stain. Marriage is an evil thing. That's what we hear," said Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa.
First of all, everyone supports that a child have a mom and a dad. The only issue gay people have is that they want support for same-sex households, too. Second of all, I just happen to believe that men and women have been "bonded together" for 5000 years in the institution of marriage. Why? Because it's a fact, not an opinion. The opinion is that homosexuals should be allowed to marry their partners, too. And finally, is marriage is "hate" and "an evil thing", then why the hell would we be trying to get it?
There was a car bomb in Iraq that killed 11 people, a sign of increased insurgency. We found flaws in the very logic in going into Iraq. And people think that the most important issue facing America is a near-death amendment that would enshrine the creation of second class citizens in the very document that represents America, just because people think that the other option is an unproven, shaky hypothesis about men eventually marrying sheep? Pardon the vulgarity, but fuck that.
