Letters to the Editor
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satire
I have to believe this is satire.
Remember, Republicans aren't gay. They're just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Trying to pick up paper. Or...stuff.
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Why can't republicans just admit it?
They don't understand homosexuality. This is why they constantly refer to it as a "behavior". If you actually ask them what causes gay attraction, (as I have done) they either don't care (which is at least somewhat honest I suppose) or they go into some elaborate explaination involving molestation at a young age. When I point out that most gays were never molested, the conversation dries up pretty quick.
For me, this is a sign of hatred if for no other reason then the fact that they won't deal with the cause of the "problem". What is interesting is how many opportunities their leaders have had to deal with this issue and won't take it. Alan Keyes could just sit down with his daughter and ask her questions about what brought all this about, ditto Phylis Schlafly, yet don't seem to want to. If they truly see homosexuality as a scurge that must be wiped out, then how can they do that by just ignoring where it comes from?
This is also proof in my eyes that the top of the GOP has no real opinion on this issue other then to use it as a way to sucker the "unwashed masses" to vote for them. It is in their best interest if this issue never goes away becuae then they would need another bogey man. You have to wonder just how "concerned" Pat Robertson and all these others who exploit this issue really are about it.
If you need any more proof that the right has no understanding of homosexuality, just look at the success rate of these "re-education" centers for people to "come out of" homosexuality. At best the success rate is 50%, and that doesn't deal with the "urges" that are still there even after someone completes the program. Doesn't sound like a "choice" to me.
But since we're on the subject of closeted gays, how about Dobson himself? I have never seen anyone so obsessed with forcing straight marraige on the populace as he is. This could be his own sign of repression (plus, have you ever heard that nasally voice of his?). I've never been quite clear on just what FOTF is; is it a religious organization? Because if it is, then their threats to "abondon the GOP" could be seen as admitting past support for one particular political party. The IRS might be very intersted in hearing that!
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excellent, Salon
I'm looking forward to the follow up where the Democrats are similarly analyzed to see which will be the most and least likely to pitch Lesbian and Gay voters under the bus.
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Is this a little like
A black man's guide the least dangerous members of the KKK?
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Top Ten Reasons to Make Gay Marriage Illegal
Top Ten Reasons to Make Gay Marriage Illegal
01) Being gay is not natural. Real Americans always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, and air conditioning.
02) Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall.
03) Legalizing gay marriage will open the door to all kinds of crazy behavior. People may even wish to marry their pets because a dog has legal standing and can sign a marriage contract.
04) Straight marriage has been around a long time and hasn't changed at all like many of the principles on which this great country was founded; women are still property, blacks still can't marry whites, and divorce is still illegal.
05) Straight marriage will be less meaningful if gay marriage were allowed; the sanctity of marriages like Britney Spears' 55-hour just-for-fun marriage would be destroyed.
06) Straight marriages are valid because they produce children. Gay couples, infertile couples, and old people shouldn't be allowed to marry because our orphanages aren't full yet, and the world needs more children.
07) Obviously gay parents will raise gay children, since straight parents only raise straight children.
08) Gay marriage is not supported by religion. In a theocracy like ours, the values of one religion are imposed on the entire country. That's why we have only one religion in America.
09) Children can never succeed without a male and a female role model at home. That's why we as a society expressly forbid single parents to raise children.
10) Gay marriage will change the foundation of society; we could never adapt to new social norms. Just like we haven't adapted to cars, the service-sector economy, or longer life spans.
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Mark Bingham
What these idiots don't recall is that many of them owe their lives to a gay man who stood up on September 11, 2001 and kept the hijackers from directing the plane at them. He gave his life for them. His sexual preference was irrelevant and sexual preference should be irrelevant. If a couple wants to commit to one another, gay or straight, they ought to be allowed to do it.
The Republican Party has been taken over by a band of anxious Christian rectum watchers whose sole preoccupation is the content of someone else's trousers. I could not see any gay person voting for any of them. I am gay in the sense that one of the posters said, I care about gay rights and I care about the consequences of unfortunate choices, having worked in an AIDS treatment program. I would not be ashamed if my sexual orientation was toward members of my own gender and I would be damned if I voted for someone who said I was wrong-headed, sinful and bound to Hell because of it.
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What Are They So Frightened Of?
Seriously. I'm asking.
We don't talk much about culture or social class in this country (as opposed to, say, race) but I never feel the gap between myself--as a New Yorker--and "Middle America" more than when these folks carry on about homosexuality. Here is the thing America: gay people are just as boring as everybody else (and I mean that with affection, not malice). When you live in a big city and have gay co-workers, neighbors and friends the whole thing just seems...completely normal. Because, you know, IT IS. The gay folks I know are all struggling with careers and kids and buying houses and all the bullshit of living...just like everybody else I know. So it is very difficult for me to understand the fascination the right wing has for gay people. Listen to a group of lesbians talk about child care for an hour and get back to me with how America is under attack Alan Keyes...(For whatever its worth the same thing applies to women wearing Burkas--who are a lot less scary when they are in front of you in line at the supermarket, trying to keep the kids entertained while they organize their coupons, than evangelical Christian hysteria would lead you to believe.)
Maybe when you construct your whole life around not being like whoever...gay people, Muslims, whoever the current boogeymen are...the idea that they aren't actually that frightening up close must be very threatening. And if the fear of gay people in the Christian wing of the Republican party is so powerful that it would cause Giuliani (who, despite his other--numerous--faults really should know better) to sell out his gay friends then this country is even weirder about sex than I thought.