Hey, don’t blame me, that is the headline that the San Francisco Chronicle is running for this story
We are all going to die. Very, very soon. Did you know?
Apparently, the signs are all in place and the plague is clearly nigh and Armageddon is fast upon us because, oh my angry heterosexual god, the announcement has now been handed down: Couples who deeply love one another may now get married in California. It’s true.
Wait, there’s more. The couple in question might both have penises. Or they both might not. This is the crazy, terrifying new thing: It is totally up to them. Can you imagine?
OK, the writer is going way overboard, trying to be a bit silly. But, who are these “evil” forces?
Here’s the problem: despite the tears of joy flooding through the gay community and despite the soothing gobs of liberal bliss pouring like warm honey over tens of thousands — nay, millions — of progressive humans worldwide, all of whom are cheering this landmark groundbreaking rainbow-colored California Supreme Court decision, seeing it as one of the most positive, hopeful shifts to occur in decades, the armies of right-wing darkness are screaming their dread, scraping their nails on the chalkboard of fear, rallying the bitterly faithful.
Oh yes they are. This is the bad news. As you read these very words, shrill cultural conservatives from Orange County to Fresno to Stockton are holding meetings in all sorts of grungy subbasements and moldy rec rooms and sterile Holiday Inn conference rooms, sipping watery Sanka and sweating profusely in their armpits and scowling like angry cats as they work to put a quick and painful stop to all this gay-loving God-hating nonsense, by way of an initiative on the November ballot outlawing icky and confusing gay marriage, by constitutional decree, once and for all.
See? Same as it ever was: One beautiful step forward, one giant jackboot back.
This is left wing identity politics at its worst. You do not support gay marriage? You are a Nazi. That is what the “jackboot” reference is supposed to make you visualize.
Look, I get the whole ant-gay marriage debate. It is about the Christian marriage ideal being about the joining of a man and a woman in holy matrimony, for the ideal of creating a family, or, as Ann Coulter calls it, a way of civilizing a man so that he can be a good father. Somehow, though, anyone against gay marriage is a philistine and Nazi.
Personally, I could care less about the whole debate. If Adam wants to marry Steve, so what? Others disagree, but, it just really isn’t one of those issues I care about, or is that important to me. I agree with Senator McCain, though, in that it should be left to the States. Problem there, though, is that you get activist courts who thwart the will of the voters.
Really, the whole point of this post is that the title from the SF Chronicle amused me. And it is time to move on, or, as kender writes
The California Supreme Court up held the right of gay and lesbians to marry. You know what? I am getting pretty tired of this whole argument. Let’s do this. To marry someone they must be of the age of consent, human and not related to you any closer than what it’s set at now.
