should i categorize or alphabetize?
with countless people making dire predictions about what would happen should marriage equality become a reality, it's hard to decide. they've been ranting since the rainbow flag flew over the first pride parade and they range from the ridiculous to....well, let's face it. they all tend to be just degrees of ridiculousness when you look at them.. some of the most recent in the 'most ridiculous' category have to be those offered up on twitter in the moments immediately following the announcement of the decision. several decided it was best to register their disgust by including the timely pledge to up and move......to canada. i'm assuming that this was a spur-of-the-moment, off-the-top-of-the-head declaration since, had they bothered to do the slightest bit of research, they would have found that canada is far ahead of us on the topic of marriage equality, having adopted it 10 years ago. i can only hope they all had a 'plan-b'.
much like these mensa members, joseph farah, editor-in-chief at world news daily, also advocated the move to another country, one that still recognizes marriage as the institution god intended it to be. he does realize that not everyone would be able to make such a drastic move so his alternative is to have at least one state, brave enough to make the step, secede and create a heavenly haven for all who see same-sex-marriage as the abomination it truly is. why do i have the feeling he has major holdings in several moving companies?
speaking of abominations, the vast majority of the screaming comes from those who see nothing but the biblical implications of the decision. one of our most favorite goobers, louie gohmert has declared that now god will no longer be the protector of the united states; for surely he has turned his back on us. televangelist cindy jacobs, she who claimed that she knew hurricane katrina was 'god's divine punishment' for america's evil ways, see's an increase in natural disasters while pastor william tapley, the self-proclaimed '3rd eagle of the apocalypse' (eagle? what the hell happened to the horsemen?) says that this will certainly hasten the end of the world. bill muehlenberg of barbwire, and associate of bryan fischer, declares the 'homo-facist' decision to be a full-on assault of god, nature, morality, marriage and the family and a sure sign of the end-times. and since i've mentioned bryan fischer, in a more recent posting he's decided that the supreme court has now made it easier for us to go to hell following this ruling on 'our 3rd national sin', the first being the dred-scott decision, the second rowe vs. wade and now this.
probably one of the most vile of those borrowing from the bible to express his views on this has been pastor steven anderson, a self-styled preacher with no formal theological training and whose 'expertise' is based solely on his one claim-to-fame....that he has committed to memory 140 chapters of the bible. mind you, there are about 1500 chapters in total, old and new testament, but he knows 140 BY HEART!!!! color me <yawn....scratch my ass> impressed. from his church, in a store-front in a strip mall in bumfuck, arizona, before a congregation that numbers in the 10s, with his 8 children and a wife he is pleased to have 'brought to god'....are we thinking duggars here?...he once claimed that aids could be 'cured' if we'd only kill all gays. now he says we should reinstate the biblical punishment of stoning, not just for gays but now all clergy who would dare insult god by holding a same-sex marriage.
if you're offended by the above signs, remember it's the supreme court that decided in march, 2011, that westboro church had the constitutional right to display them while marching outside the funerals of american servicemen. so that brings us to the solution proposed by some in order to express their opposition to this particular ruling....it is their right to do so, no matter how many of us would just wish they'd stop their whining and get a life, but they want to feel that there will be a shake-up in the whole social structure of the country, even if it means the painful establishing of an entirely new order.
people like james dobson of focus on the family stress that a collapse is coming and within the next couple of decades there will be another civil war. sandy rios, another friend-of-fischer, puts it in a slightly different context; it will not be a civil, but a holy war and true believers must prepare for martyrdom. glenn beck, never one to be left out, actually goes so far as to give statistics. according to him, 50% of churches will be forced to undergo persecution and eventually go underground, their congregations 'falling away' in order to protect their jobs, their families, their lives. but, most importantly, the ruling could even mean <shudder!!> the very cancellation of his show. OH, THE HUMANITY!!!!
for all the people who might be upset with this ruling, i'm sorry but i can't see school walkouts, massive protest lines blocking downtown intersections or sit-ins disrupting public life. since the sun rose this morning, as it has for the past three mornings, birds didn't fall out of the trees and life seems to be going on rather normally (and for the most part boringly so), the majority of people don't seem to be giving a hairy rat's ass what consenting adults do in the privacy of their lives. in other words...same-old, same-old. except for, that is, the sexually-obsessed republigelicals who can't seem to keep their noses out of other peoples' bedrooms, genitals and various sexual proclivities. one might think they're jealous because, as they say, 'they ain't gettin' any'.
there are only two voices that have yet to weigh in as they usually are inclined to do. rev. pat 'voice of god-on-earth' robertson has only put 3 posts on the 700 club web-site. yes. i went there. one is a generic 'gay marriage bad' quote with picture of daddy pat. another is a picture of a back-lit cross with a not-so-clever play on the #lovewins....something like 'when love really won'. and the last is a mash-up of pictures taken outside the supreme court building, probably taken from any one of a dozen gay web-sites. if there are more or different ones, someone else can look. i already took one for the team.
the other voice is sarah palin. maybe it's just that after her darling baby's latest announcement she's preoccupied and has other more pressing things to bother her little mind with....emphasis on 'little'. or maybe it's just taking her a little longer trying to find the best possible wording when she blames it all on obama. of course, it took her a week before she commented on the aca decision so we've still got a few more days for her to weigh in.
so, there we have it. well, almost. the only ones left are the ones considered to be the most opinionated of the opinionated, the ones who are looked to for party policy and the truest of truthiness. let us look to the ravings from the konservative klown kar, which i'm assuming will have to go in for an adjustment on springs and suspension in preparation of the addition of chris 'ain't never seen an elephant fly' christie. we'll approach these, more or less, alphabetically, connecting those who tend to fall in the same pigeon-hole:
jeb bush can be connected to rick perry in that they both disapprove, feeling the matter should have been left to each individual state. walker (though not officially in the race) agrees with the 'states-rights' aspect but also throws in the 'attack-on-religious-liberties'. lindsay graham goes farther only in saying he'd 'respect their decision'....one of the few to use the word 'respect'.
ben carso, marco rubio and christie can all be joined at the hip, saying 'it's now the law of the land' or some variation of the phrase. carson just wants there to be something to guarantee individual religious liberties and christie feels we need to find a 'way to move forward'. fiorina pretty much echoes christie and his more moderate approach.
ted cruz, front-runner in some places but actually lagging in some heavily conservative areas said the decision 'broke his heart' and along with the ruling on the aca it was 'the darkest days in our history' and would make sure the issue was front and center in his campaign. being one who can just leave as is, he said he thinks the justices should be open to periodic reviews to make sure they're capable of fulfilling their judicial duties. i'd be interested in knowing exactly who was going to make those determinations since the administration may change regularly, as will the balance of power in congress.
mike huckabee follows true to for, claimimg the courts can no more repeal god's laws of marriage than it can repeal the law of gravity. what's this? acknowledging a 'scientific theory' as indisputable law? who are you and where is the real mike huckabee?? but before we get carried away, he goes on to say we must not give up or retreat in our fight against judicial tyranny. THERE'S the mike we know and.....well, the one we know.
bobby jindal, the one true american, says it will be used as a pretext to help further the erosion of religious liberties, even suggesting a great way to help save money and balance the budget......get rid of the court altogether.
rand paul stayed quiet for almost three days before coming forward to say that he thought the government should stay out of the 'marriage business' entirely.
santorum was uncharacteristically low-key, only criticizing the court's efforts to 'redefine marriage' until he suggested that all the efforts going into defending climate change would be better focused on the defense of traditional marriage....'for the survival of our country'. he did go a little further in an interview with tucker carlson when he said the decision 'cemented the notion that marriage had nothing to do with children'.
very true. when you have a straight couple that can't have children because of age or medical conditions or one where they simply don't want them, marriage has nothing to do with children. i didn't realize having children was mandatory to getting married, dipstick?
and there we have it. a colorful plethora of opinions.
as the klown kar has become an suv and has the potential to grow into a bus, or something larger, i'm fairly certain we haven't heard the end. and as people's attentions are diverted from other issues there will be those weighing in from many sides, but they'll all tend to fall into line with any one (or a multiple of) the previously stated opinions. just a note: please don't expect me to update each and every one. only when i find one that is in a category of stupid or evil all by itself will i find it worth mentioning. looking back, i'm not even sure any of the ones i've already covered are truly worth it. but i guess with a decision of this magnitude, it's only fair that 'every dog has his day'. and having covered all the dogs i've covered, you'll excuse me if i feel i need a flea-dip.
#lovewins #rightwhines
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