Quote of the Day
S. Carpenter on the right’s obsession with stopping dudes from kissing:
CHARACTER COUNTS SO WE MADE IT A LAW
Update: In comments, Les takes issue with my use of the phrase stopping dudes from kissing. Yes, it’s intentionally an oversimplification used to convey that what consenting adults do (whether it’s kiss, diddle each other, or enter into an enforceable legal arrangement that guarantees rights to survivorship and the ability to make decisions for each other out of love or respect or compassion) is really nobody else’s business except the consenting adults involved.
As you were.
January 25th, 2006 at 12:57 am
Hey, whatever two consenting adults want to do behing closed doors. But pretending that all but the most fringe right wants to outlaw two dudes kissing? Give me a break.
January 25th, 2006 at 12:59 am
This modern world from today was pretty funny, on that note:
http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemID=20265
January 25th, 2006 at 1:00 am
Except for the last panel, which sorta blows it..
January 25th, 2006 at 11:37 am
I don’t think anybody really wants to outlaw two dudes kissing. They want to talk about outlawing it so people won’t be talking about important things like how an Iranian double agent wound up sitting next to Laura Bush at the 2003 State of the Union address or how Jack Abramoff’s assistant left his employ to become Karl Rove’s assistant.
January 25th, 2006 at 3:05 pm
Thanks for the update, but it’s still a strawmen. Who exactly is trying to outlaw gay sex? (As opposed to legal recognition for gay marriage.)
January 25th, 2006 at 4:14 pm
I’m sure somebody is, somewhere. But I think it’s clear from my update that isn’t what I mean. And, yes, it was oversimplified and a straw man.
January 26th, 2006 at 1:38 am
IIRC there was opposition from some quarters when the Texas sodomy law was overturned.
January 28th, 2006 at 11:39 pm
Lookit, as a member of the VWRC, I can say categorically that “It’s your mouth and you can haul coal in it if you want to.”
However, I get really annoyed at having gays and their lifestyle prancing on my TV every damn time I watch anything other than “Mail Call.”
That is all.