Comments on: Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish http://themoderatevoice.com/15391/good-riddance-to-bad-rubbish/ An Internet hub with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, indies, centrists, moderates, and right Wed, 15 Feb 2012 04:43:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Lynx http://themoderatevoice.com/15391/good-riddance-to-bad-rubbish/comment-page-1/#comment-100190 Lynx Mon, 01 Oct 2007 18:28:08 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/politics/2008-elections/15391/good-riddance-to-bad-rubbish/#comment-100190 What I find completely mind-boggling is this ability to lie in such a bald-faced manner. I'm referring to the language they use on this issue, of which the posts graphic is only one example: - DEFENDING marriage - Standing up for marriage - The WAR on Family Valuesâ„¢ - The FIGHT for marriage The implication of course is that Gays getting married is an attack, that somehow heterosexual marriage is threatened by Gays being married! It's totally ludicrous, and yet it's repeated so many times that I think many who hold such beliefs really do think that somehow Gays being married has something to do with heterosexuals getting married. I always try to envision the scene: Bubba Smith is proposing to his sweetheart Norma Jean. He gets down on one knee and shows her the ring. She starts, and then, with tears in her eyes, shakes her head and says "Y'know a love you dearly Bubba, but I can't marry you, because there's these guys in Massachusetts that got married and now it's all ruined!" Somehow repetition hasn't made it any less surreal. What I find completely mind-boggling is this ability to lie in such a bald-faced manner. I’m referring to the language they use on this issue, of which the posts graphic is only one example:

- DEFENDING marriage
- Standing up for marriage
- The WAR on Family Valuesâ„¢
- The FIGHT for marriage

The implication of course is that Gays getting married is an attack, that somehow heterosexual marriage is threatened by Gays being married! It’s totally ludicrous, and yet it’s repeated so many times that I think many who hold such beliefs really do think that somehow Gays being married has something to do with heterosexuals getting married.
I always try to envision the scene: Bubba Smith is proposing to his sweetheart Norma Jean. He gets down on one knee and shows her the ring. She starts, and then, with tears in her eyes, shakes her head and says “Y’know a love you dearly Bubba, but I can’t marry you, because there’s these guys in Massachusetts that got married and now it’s all ruined!”

Somehow repetition hasn’t made it any less surreal.

]]> By: Amanda http://themoderatevoice.com/15391/good-riddance-to-bad-rubbish/comment-page-1/#comment-100187 Amanda Mon, 01 Oct 2007 18:08:56 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/politics/2008-elections/15391/good-riddance-to-bad-rubbish/#comment-100187 The serious fundamentalists are incredibly amusing (but only because I live in Maryland). Everything is a crisis to them. Gays want to get married! Lesbians want to raise children! Some women don't want to have children at all, let alone the half dozen or so we think they should be raising instead wasting their time doing men's work. It's the end of "normal" families! The end of the world! And sex is bad! Really bad! Don't you feel naughty? For a religion that claims to be all about finding the joy in life and appreciating God's wonderful gifts to us, they sure know how to sap the happiness right out of you and replace it with guilt and fear/hatred of everyone else. The serious fundamentalists are incredibly amusing (but only because I live in Maryland). Everything is a crisis to them. Gays want to get married! Lesbians want to raise children! Some women don’t want to have children at all, let alone the half dozen or so we think they should be raising instead wasting their time doing men’s work. It’s the end of “normal” families! The end of the world! And sex is bad! Really bad! Don’t you feel naughty?

For a religion that claims to be all about finding the joy in life and appreciating God’s wonderful gifts to us, they sure know how to sap the happiness right out of you and replace it with guilt and fear/hatred of everyone else.

]]> By: Allah Peanut-Butter Sandwiches http://themoderatevoice.com/15391/good-riddance-to-bad-rubbish/comment-page-1/#comment-100172 Allah Peanut-Butter Sandwiches Mon, 01 Oct 2007 15:48:11 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/politics/2008-elections/15391/good-riddance-to-bad-rubbish/#comment-100172 Damn! That George Bush is a busy guy. Damn! That George Bush is a busy guy.

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