Asshat Quote of the Day

I do not favor litigating this. I favor continuing the work in educating people about marriage equality, about gay couples, and the good, integrative effect of allowing this reform. And I think the greatest way to do this will not be lawsuits but the witness and example of thousands of legally married couples in California. That's how fears of miscegenation abated in time: seeing inter-racial couples live and breathe defused the opposition. - Andrew Sullivan

Sully just wants to be liked. Of course, he completely leaves out that the anti-miscegenation laws were struck down by a 1968 Supreme Court ruling, not by asking nicely, not by caring what the "popular will" was.

In other words.. it was "litigation" that forced civil rights down the throats of a bigoted nation. It wasn't a feel good campaign.

Greenwald picks up on the importance of repealing DOMA. The next step is replacing one of the wingnuts on the court with a true believer in Equal Protection clause of the fourteenth amendment. Get a 5-4 margin, and litigate the fuck out of it.

I'm the complete opposite of Sullivan on this. I don't care to educate anyone about how normal gay people are. I won't spend a second trying to change their mind. I'll point out where they are factually wrong, but I won't appeal to emotion to convince people that their hatred is damaging to people.

I fucking hate them back.. and while I won't actively find ways to inflict pain on them, I won't lift a finger to help them either. No favors.. no friendship.. no compassion.. nothing. I simply do not include people anywhere in my life that think I am undeserving of what everyone else takes for granted, or thinks there's something inherently wrong with me.

Period.

The beauty of the issue is that, when you think about it, they can't do anything to me.. to us. We do what we want. We can gain legal protections through contracts, and we can congregate with our own, and those who view us as the same as anyone else.

There is not a single thing that assholes like Doug Gibbs can do to negatively affect how I view myself, and how I conduct my life... which is important because their goal is not some amorphous concept of "protecting marriage" - their goal is to hate.. and to try and make us feel less of ourselves by their so-called "moral" judgements. Their goal is to do what religion has always done.. place themselves above other people, and point their finger at others in order to make their own disgusting lives seem better.

And I give them the finger back, and pity the vile nature of a human being that could even think the way they do.

Sullivan wants to ask nicely.. Fuck that.. ram it down their throats exactly the same way Loving vs. Virginia did it.

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And do spare me the "tradition" argument. Fuck your so-called "Christian values".

It wasn't too long ago that women had no say in who they married. In England, "Lords" would often pick which of their subjects married who, robbing them of the choice to be with who they wanted.

And the best part.. the "Lord" had the right to fuck the new bride first..

So.. not.. kidding.. Here's a nice list of "traditional marriage" rites.

Some "tradition".