via atrios, we learn that more horses are out of the gate.... or um, perhaps the rainbow flaming barn of this era's big civil rights movement. yee-haw, gurl-freeeeens!!! when two adorable old dykes can get married after fifty years together, you know them times is a'changin'. a chorus of bigots against gay marriage have predictably shoveled a mountain of logically tortured justifications for their stance to the media, which has obligingly repeated each screed ad infinitum*, but they are on the wrong side.
heterosexual marriage isn't under threat because gay people want to get married. straight people have fucked up marriage all on their own. if marriage has sunk to a culturally debased level, they cannot blame that shit on gay folks. what the hell do queer folks have to do with fucking marriage up?
* i listen to the radio while driving to work. no less than three times, i have been subjected to this nauseating ad:
ahem. cough cough. i present my concise translation (italics indicate the unspoken, yet painfully obvious messages):
concerned woman's voice: what is happening to our world? have you considered what will happen if gays... all those faggots and rug-munchers ... are allowed to get married ... in your church ... .
... society will collapse in a pool of lava burned hot by the glare of god's angry wrath. your wife might decide she's a lesbian and leave you. she can take your kids away and have her lesbian wife adopt them against your will. your cross-dressing husband might finally confess that he's a lesbian and get a sex-change operation and become your wife instead of your husband. walmart will go out of business and children will cease to be born ...
what's next? three men and a baby?
fade to silence ...
i shit you not about the 'three men and a baby' line. they actually used that in the ad. that's not a translation.
