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June 24, 2009 12:29 PM
Ok, So Who Really Blames Gays for all These Affairs?
It is hard to know what to say about Gov. Mark Sanford's extraordinary tale of an affair. I don't personally approving of affairs, but that is just my opinion. More importantly, it really steams me that all of these elected officials and wanna be elected officials are against gay marriage on the grounds that it threatens traditional marriage yet their own marriages are already a mess (and to be super clear, I include John Edwards along with lots of Republican officials like Sanford, Ensign, and Vitter - lots of company to go around on this one).
Wouldn't it be just great if even one of these guys apologized to gays and lesbians everywhere for their hateful remarks about people who actually do love each other and want to be together? Just one of them!
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Yes, that would be nice--except for the minor detail that they have nothing to apologize for. "Hate" is the silliest and most venemous possible label to slap on the remarks these various officials make about gay marriage.
Again, I totally agree with you Michael Kieschnick!
Keith Moore, could you elaborate?
It's not hateful to describe same-sex relationships as identical to pedophilia? It's not hateful to say that same-sex marriage threatens society itself? It's not hateful to say same-sex marriage (among other things) is responsible for severe hurricanes or terrorist attacks? Really?
Actually, I think you're right. "Hate" is too soft a word for something like that.
The reason an apology is owed is simple: owning up to one's hypocrisy, but then there really is no hypocrite like a social conservative.
It's odd to hear one prattle on about "sanctity" and such only to turn around and violate that sanctity. How many of those oh so righteous defenders have been married multiple times? The only people I know in stable relationships are gay. Most of my straight friends' parents are divorced. None of them have been in stable relationships (I know a guy who isn't even 25, but has been married twice and has 2 kids from two different women, he thinks recognizing gay marriage is wrong, too).
Aren't conservatives big on personal responsibility? Oh, wait, that's for *other* people.
Okay, let's not play the blame game please.
The nature of marriage is the nature of marriage. Whether you're gay or straight, issues that strain relationships like money, children, power, careers, in-laws, etc, WILL NOT MAGICALLY disappear just because a couple is gay.
Do you really think once gay marriage is approved, that temptations to stray from one's partner won't happen?
To me, gay marriage is about the financial and legal benefits of a life partnership. And all people should have this right. If it were simply about making the declaration of love and transcendent union, gays could do what many straights do --elope.
So let's do it--whether unfaithful Republican men approve or not. But let's not play, "nah nah nah nah nah nah--let people who really love each other have the right to marry." That's childish and ignorant of basic human nature!
Weird, huh? More straights have sex and kids outside of marriage than ever before--and gays want the right to marry. Why do we always want what we can't have?
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