This guy (Brian Brown) is a real idiot. I don’t even know how people get these ideas into their head.
(Via Joe. My. God.)
My measly blog that three people read is somehow important enough to garner ridiculous right wing comments. “Jean” left me this comment in response to my comments on the Trib article a couple days ago. I love how she even fails to use a capital letter for the word “I” – is it a sign of her submission to the same people that are using religion to continually discriminate against groups of people unlike them? And do you really think that gay marriage is an abomination to “humanities?” I hardly think that art, culture, music, and literature are suffering from the great threat that gay marriage is. She is spot on with one comment though. You can learn from your wrongs, but that does not make them “right.” The “right” has a standing history of not learning from the things they’ve done wrong.
What do you think?
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Comment:
We are near the end of the world. Homosexuality is a sin to GOD, and to self. Almost everything in nature was created in pair by GOD. By promoting homosexuality rights to a marriage will be and i shall say already is an abomination to humanities. Although i have conservative values, i am neither a conservative, nor a liberal. We need to be careful with the message we are sending to our kids on a daily basis. Wrong can never be right no matter how you look at it. You can learn from your wrongdoing; however, that does not make it right.
The Chicago Tribune recently posted this editorial in support of civil unions in Illinois. I find myself conflicted. I’m happy that the Trib has gone on record vocally supporting some form of gay rights yet unimpressed with the language used. The argument does little to persuade and falls short of recognizing that civil unions can only be an injured step towards the real goal of full marriage rights for same sex couples.
An editorial should fervently support an argument one way or the other. I should walk away passionately in agreement or disgust. I don’t mean to sound unappreciative, I would love for the Trib to continue publishing pro-gay rights pieces, yet in a world where Iowa can unanimously approve gay marriage rights, Vermont can override a governor’s veto blocking full marriage rights, and New York’s governor can garner national press pushing a gay marriage bill this editorial does little to inspire any real movement.
What do you think? Leave your thoughts in the comments.
Legalize civil unions at chicagotribune.com
Highlights:
“In fact, it is never the wrong time to do the right thing.”
“As African-American activists in the 1960s proved so conclusively, separate but equal is a lie.”
“Gay couples and families are as worthy as anyone else. And New Hampshire does not discriminate.”
Pass gay marriage bill and end discrimination @ Concord Monitor
“Soon gay people will start falling out of the sky … they’ll come at us marching … not marching, more like a dance, they’ll dance at us – and it’ll be choreographed, it’ll be good”
Are the tables finally turning in America’s debate over gay marriage? I think they are. Iowa and Vermont both recently legalized full marriage rights for gay couples which is a wonderful mark of progress in the fight for equality. Even more striking are the changes in political policy elsewhere – hints that even in the most conservative corners of America the arguments against gay marriage are dwindling.
I came across this great Op-Ed piece in the The New York Times through the Joe. My. God. blog. In it Frank Rich details many of the ways that opinions on this debate are shifting. He describes how NOM (National Organization for Marriage) has if anything only achieved ridicule for their recent “Gathering Storm” video campaign and goes on to link to articles describing how the opinions of many conservatives are even moving towards support of gay marriage.
Rich links to many articles and I certainly encourage you to sift through all of them but these are the ones that I found most interesting:
- Fact and Fiction on Gay Marriage Polling at FiveThirtyEight.
- Ex-McCain aide to call for gay marriage support at CNN.
- The original article in case you missed the link above:
The Bigots’ Last Hurrah at The New York Times - And the referring source:
Justice Is Gathering at Joe. My. God.
“I felt like our love was just a little more meaningful last Friday night because thousands of other Iowa citizens could hug each other and have the state recognize their love for each other.”