First off, James has
posted the top 12 reasons homosexual marriage should not be legal, which you should definitely check out.
Now, the other day, Ultra Laser and I were at Home Depot, buying a Rubbermaid shed with gift cards he got as presents from his recent nuptials. The Home Depot Associate helping us, a woman in her late 40's or so, made a remark about how weird it was that UL was paying with 7 separate gift cards. He explained "well, we just got married, and those were wedding presents." He looked at me and quickly added "wait, not
we[motioning to me], my wife and I just got married."
She laughed and said that there wouldn't be anything wrong about that, and I think I said, well, in this state there would be. She rolled her eyes and said that everyone should get over themselves and let people who love each other get married. Then she complained about how backwards Louisiana is (a complaint I've heard quite a bit lately, actually, from locals). So this was an excellent sign that not every regular Joe and Jane
Six-tooth (oops, that's Kentucky) Sixpack from the South thinks queers should go back to where they came from (on their way to hell, of course). Just an anecdote, but one I like to see.
And today President Bush lets us all know where he stands on the issue: he
wants to amend the Constitution. Now I'm generally against amending the document from which we draw our freedoms from to limit equal rights, but when it's done to appease the religious right, well that's when I get pissed. Unfortunately the Democrats are taking the cautious "I don't like gay marriage, civil unions are ok, but don't amend the constitution" stance (this was Howard Dean's position too, and they'll all be on the wrong side of the issue when we look back in 20 years). The Dem position is apparently (hopefully)
a winner, though, so I'll stay pragmatic. Besides, all those activist judges the Republicans are warning us about will just redefine all the laws they want and people will be marrying their dogs any day now.
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James’ top 12 reasons why gay marriage should NOT be legal are ignorant, confusing, and just plain dumb. first you started off with the point that homosexuality isn’t natural, even though in nature it occurs all the time! this is a fact. then you tied this point with the fact that sunglasses and birth control are not natural either?? i’m not even going to begin to cut you up there because i have more to say (but REALLY think about what was said lol) Your second point about the world needing more children is dead wrong. the human population is doing fine don’t worry….really no shortage of children (despite the massive numbers of kids dying….yet still no dire need of children). The world would be a much better place if people stopped mating and werent even here. it would be an even better place if all the uneducated morons all magically went away…..not mentioning anyone here in particular. dont discriminate. Let it go, they’re marrying eachother. its not like i went out and saw brokeback mountain a million times and i hate guys with lisps too, but atleast i can tolerate change in the world. and atleast i have tolerance in general. it people like you who slow the world’s REAL progession down. id have more to say about your retarted list but i gotta go peace out crackers
Believe me, I get mail like this all the time who DON’T SEEM TO GET WHAT SATIRE IS. Or WHO ACTUALLY WROTE THE LIST.
And seem to have a burning desire to show how careless their reading skills are.
I can forgive it more when I get an email like I did back when I was home with a throw-up bug. A high school student admonished me for what she thought were my opinions. I actually wrote her a friendly letter back because I think kids need to be educated about satire.
But beyond a certain age… it’s just ignorance.
And poor reading skills.
To the comment poster: Read more carefully next time before you fire off a message that makes you look stupid. That’s sincere advice, because we’re on the same side and you make other people look stupid by association.