You couldn’t buy better advocates than these.
The irrational, religion-based opposition to — really, gay civil rights, though the role of Civil Rights will be played today by Same-Sex Marriage — recently brought out a collection of hilarious nutjobs in opposition to a bill in Connecticut that would legalize gay marriage.
But to no effect — except for the low humor always on offer when sideshow buffoons do pratfalls. (As you will see in the double feature below the jump.)
In the end, the Judiciary Committee passed the bill, 27 to 15; the governor vowed to veto it, and the armies are even now gathering on either side for a voter-driven referendum fight. The foes want to rescind the progressive civil union legislation that Connecticut has already extended to gay couples.
Let us go now to the committee meetling where the sweetly dizzy homophobes of Connecticut are about to vent their feelings. You won’t believe what these people have to resort to.
We particularly love the woman who bemoans the loss of the word gay because, aw shoot, it doesn’t mean happy anymore! That, she warns us, is “a slippery slope.” Also — prepare yourself — there is the tale of the lady and the dolphin, sure to tickle all you fans of the Amours of Zeus, what with its overtones of Leda and the swan, Europa and the bull … but we’re already giving the ending away!
So strap yourself in, Christopher. Remove all sharp objects. Bounce off the walls if you must. But please, please don’t reveal the shocking ending. No one will be seated during the last 30 seconds!
EXTRA-CREDIT DETAIL: You did catch, we hope, the rather large Lady of Guadalupe brooch-thing the Right to Life guy was wearing on his lapel, yes?
No Starbucks baristas were harmed in the making of these videos.
All videos were the work of MikeCT
You can thank him at [progactive AT yahoo DOT com]. We did.
Doot-n-do-do-do… AAHaaaAAAH-a-aaaaa…
*ahem*
Wow. Is this really happening in my home state? The first 17 years of my life living in the cold Constitution State, you couldn’t get your neighbors to wave hello to you and now these NUTmeggers can’t keep their stupid yaps shut and mind their own business. Must be Global Warming.
Shameful. The examples of sheer ignorance of the inhabitants are astounding, which these sadly hilarious videos so deftly pointed out.
I swear these people hear the word “gay” and crawl out from under rocks and rickety bridges to waste tax payer’s time, money and sanity. I’ve yet to have it explained to me how gay couples getting married will ruin their wonderful marriage they should be fondly taking care of and strengthening until death do they part.
If they don’t want to personally participate in gay marriage they shouldn’t go out and obtain one.
It’s time for Democratic Presidential candidates to stop half-stepping the issue of gay marriage by falling back on the civil union compromise. It’s become more than obvious from paranoid, throwback, wackjob carnivals like this that even civil unions will be denied to gays. With all this hysteria, there really is no middle ground for us. We’re as demonized as we ever were.
Wow, that’s a heartwrenching story about the escape from totalitarian Canada. So many people have died making that very journey, it’s a wonder she managed to get across.
I think Creationists are sort of cute. Their logic is like that of a little kid who says “fish jump because they’re coming up for air.” In one world paradigm the plain simplistic reasoning makes so much sense, even if all the rest of us know better.
Loons, all of them loons! Can’t they do the decent thing and just stop breathing?
Mark my words, when gay marriage is included in the law of the land, these people will divorce in droves and walk around with picket signs and lapel pins claiming “I’m A Victim Of Gay Marriage”. They’ll be the new “Union Busters” and insist on special victims rights because they gave up what they once had because they weren’t human enough to share - an idea, a concept, and instituion, a right. The won’t get it, they never will.
But as the man who stated he didn’t think a politician who was an atheist had the right to hold public office made clear, they’re all barking up the right tree - of a theocracy. If they don’t stop breathing, let’s all chip in and buy them one way tickets to Saudi Arabia or Iran. Or hell, Vatican City.
My parents (though i am shamed to say) are members of Focus on The Family and they sent out letters in the begging about how the only reason gays wanted marrage was to ruin family and marrage for everyone. As said earilier how does it ruin it? Also how does gay marrage equate to inter species marrages? A commitment between consenting human adults (see a contract must be signed so you must be sentient) is perfectly moral. It wont do anything like melt polar ice caps or give children aids like they say. do some research gays aren’t teh number 1 demographic in the USA with aids. Also are they really afraid that we will recruit thier children? Holy ignorance! Yes lets send them to UAE they will like Islam isn’t so different from christianity just muslims for jesus! that should get them thru.
You know, it’s really quite sad…
On the one hand, you have these idiots who feel, dare I say, obliged to spend every waking hour of their life wasting it by sharing their oh so holy(er than thou) attitude with us…I fail to see how gay marriage would uproot any heterosexual marriage, unless that marriage was just a sham and peoples’ hearts aren’t really into it (and if they weren’t, then what the hell are they getting married for…)
But, as is seen, as long as the majority of the people still take this crap, they don’t really care if their arguments make sense. This seems more like being part of the gang than it looks like trying to make the world a better place. I can’t even remember what’s been said on those clips, but I can say that any *intelligent* (and I mean properly intelligent, you know, the kind where people think for themselves and such) human being would find these speeches and arguments ludicrous and ridiculous.
I think it’s funny, that canadian stuff…’we don’t get to have a say, oh you’re so great to do this’ … that…makes me sick, because I do believe it was a democratic decision that eventually led to the legal whatsit in canada as is anyway.
Seperation of state and church should be a fact, but alas, it is not. Which brings the entire state of politics to a state where sense is inferior to what’s always been, and where individual thought is believed to be wrong: the Bible has all the answers anyway, so why bother?
These people are forgetting that a society is a sum of individuals, and as long as there is strife in between them, it will affect everyone, not just the parties involved. It’s a strain on the people and the country that just isn’t necessary. If we ‘gays’ are really all that terrible and the very air we breath speaks blasphemy, then the Lord shall punish us in due time. I don’t believe he ever gave a speech with something like ‘Well, I’m off, you kids take care now, and be sure to punish anyone who you don’t see as worthy of my grace with whatever means you think necessary.’ Well, I think you get my point :-p.
Now…was there something else…hrm…oh right, the whole ‘gays prey on our children’ thing. Get over yourselves, sickos. Most child abuse is caused by straight people (that’s right, you’re one of those, maybe *we* should start attacking *you* for that), even the man vs. boy stuff. Homosexuality isn’t a recruitment office for crying out loud…something I could not say for christianity when I hear certain things.
I won’t even get them started on the so-called ‘curing camps’…pfah, these people make me sick. I sincerely hope that when they die, God (if there is indeed such a being) will give them a malicious grin and send them straight down to that cozy oven down under for their ignorance and needless violence.
But I’m afraid this may just be hope talking…
(And now I sort of feel stupid for posting this because everyone here agrees with me anyway but eh, venting is good
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Their rhetoric is more than eighty years behind the times, still intent on portraying homosexuality as some form of mental disease or moral failing, still casting gays as a Legion of Doom conspiring to undermine the good ol’ American Way. They’re at least consistent in that respect, their ideology being that we’re so morally bankrupt and inhuman that if allowed to we’ll bring all the transgressive acts that we’ve always unfairly been associated with– everything from black magic and Nazism to cannibalism and bestiality– aboveground in order to sweep across the heartland like the monsters from the Universal movies.
Evangelicals are claiming that the U.S. in the midst of another supposed great religious Awakening. That’s disingenuously beautifying their vitriol. What’s really happening is a tyrannical Neo-Victorian push that’s built upon the principles of denying anyone who doesn’t meet an antiquated definition of a “good” American.
If you don’t want gay marriage, don’t have one… Just stop thinking about gay marriage all the time. Stop thinking about what it would be like to be married to your best friend since you were in the army together, stop thinking about what it would be like to be married to that guy at work, stop thinking about what it would be like to be married to that guy who mows your grass, stop thinking what it would be like to be married to Peyton Manning, stop thinking what it would be like to be married to that cop on the motorcycle that you see on your way into work, stop thinking what it would be like to be married to your daughter’s husband, stop thinking about what it would be like to be married to your tennis partner. Damn those guys for always making you think about gay marriage!
James gets the Adorable award for that post.