Gays are coming to get us again! Quick, everybody disavow them!
The court’s decision is likely to re-energize an election-year debate over same-sex marriages and gay rights. By injecting the social issue into a contest that has been dominated by the economy and Iraq, the ruling could provoke a backlash among conservatives, drawing them to the polls in large numbers.
Someone hold me.
You know, I can hear the meeting now, in which people tell Clinton and Obama (forget McCain, he’s off somewhere eating oatmeal with a straw) to be careful and be cautious and worry, worry, worry, worry because all those moral values voters seized on gay marriages in Massachusetts and San Francisco as reasons to vote Republican, so don’t look too liberal by favoring equal protection under the fucking law.Not that they need much encouragement to be chickenshit on this issue, apparently:
Both of them should be ashamed. There’s absolutely no reason they couldn’t at least have said, “Congratulations to California’s same-sex couples, who took a step forward toward equality today,” which wouldn’t even have been inconsistent with their civil union wankery. It’s just unkind to have issued such flat sentiments.
Lest the “gay marriage is going to doom the Democrats again so they’d better go out and kick the shit out of some gays to make a point” argument have time to sit there and rot and release its spores into the atmosphere, I’m gonna go back to something our former blogmate Tena wrote after the 2004 election, when the same scaredy-cats losing their little minds over gay marriage now were losing them before:
No link, just another editorial. But this is important and I must say it publicly.
I have never in my life been so disappointed in people as I am in the so-called liberals who are all over the blogosphere bashing gays and blaming them. If y’all want to be fascist appeasers, then be my guest, but you are not going to have me as a companion on your particular road to tyranny and hell.
I will never give up my principles. I will not alter my morality. I will stand with my gay and lesbian and transsexual fellow citizens to the bitter end. It is non-negotiable. I will go where they go and I will fight for them with my last breath. That’s final.
Those of you now joining the witch hunt can go to hell. Fine bunch of progressives some of you are. I cry “Shame” on all of you who are daring to blame same sex marriage for the loss of this election.
Because, fuck yeah. There are plenty of things in this world to be scared of. There are plenty of things in this world to fear. Love isn’t one of them. Fairness isn’t one of them. Equality isn’t one of them. And we are either all safe, all loved, all equal, all welcome, all protected, or none of us are. Full stop.
A.