Posts Tagged ‘gay marriage’

Regardless Of What your Stance On The Matter Is…

Thursday, May 10th, 2012

This week President Obama spoke out about his support of gay marriage following North Carolina’s vote to ban it and pretty much all other civil unions. For years the gay community has been disappointed with the president’s commitment to gay marriage especially after his statement during his 2008 campaign wherein he flat out told the country that he did not, in fact, support gay marriage. When then New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey made intimations that Michelle Obama supported gay marriage, her staff answered on her behalf stating that she did not support it. So where did all of this goodwill towards men marrying men come from? Well, it’s an election year.

Obama had a majority in both houses of congress for two years yet he failed to secure gay marriage rights or even try making an attempt to do so. During those 730 days when he and his party had supremacy, nay primacy, to do whatever they pleased to fulfill all of the campaign promises that they said the Republicans were supposedly blocking they did nothing for gay marriage rights. So what changed his mind now? Well, it’s an election year.

Now Obama does not have a majority so he can blame Republicans once again for his failure to act. Now he can rouse the American public to voting action through even more empty promises of future rights that simply will not appear. These same Americans that felt outrage at North Carolina’s ban of gay marriage are the same ones that apparently haven’t been paying attention to Obama’s conspicuous inaction on the subject when he had the chance to fix it virtually unopposed for the first two years of his administration. These same Americans are also apparently oblivious to the stagnant economy, spiked gas prices, and dwindling liberties under the Obama administration, yet will once again rally to his banner for the price of a few empty words. These are the same people that mocked Hillary Clinton when she said something along the lines of “I opposed the war after I supported it” yet they support Obama when he offers the same kind of hollow platitudes regarding gay marriage. How does he think he can get away with this? Well, it’s an election year.

The man flat out stated that he didn’t support gay marriage during his first campaign, did nothing to support gay marriage throughout his first administration, and now he wants to pander to the gay community by supposedly flip-flopping on his position and telling everyone, despite a mountain of evidence to the contrary, that he supports gay marriage? How could any rational, intelligent person believe this kind of blatant bill of goods? Well, it’s an election year…

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I Am A Complicated Guy

Wednesday, August 17th, 2011

A lot of the people that wander on to this blog have a pre-determined snapshot of me in their head. Some people on the left think I am a raving, right-wing radical while some people on the right think I am a liberal, left-wing lunatic. The true me lies somewhere in the middle. I am a libertarian but not psychotically so. I am an agnostic because I don’t think that anyone has the market on spirituality cornered and most of the ones that claim they do are more mired in hypocrisy than theology. I am a vet who thinks that war should be avoided when it can be, but should be entered into with all the sound and fury that a country can muster when necessary. I am a staunch supporter of our troops as well as a staunch supporter of individual liberties. Nobody should tell you what you can and cannot do as long as it doesn’t interfere with your life. With that being said, watch this:

Rep. Kriesel: Congressman, vet, wounded warrior, and thinker. Oh, and very brave for bucking his own party. Just because a person is a fiscal conservative doesn’t mean that he is an automaton that will only vote along party lines.

I know that a lot of my readers don’t agree with my stance on this and that I will get numerous Bible quotes as to why homosexuality is wrong to which I will respond with numerous Bible quotes about why women should sleep outside the city walls when they menstruate or how to treat slaves or why you shouldn’t eat bacon and the like. I hope that I have sufficiently preemptively negated that argument although I am guessing that I will get at least one quote along those lines in the comments. I will also get the the argument that gay marriage weakens straight marriage but with the average national divorce rate being about 50%, it would be hard to argue that the sanctity of marriage is already pretty weak. And if somebody else’s marriage is a detriment to your own marriage, your marriage is already pretty screwed. Then there is the argument that marriage is a religious venture only and that God doesn’t want gay people marrying to which I would answer “well, I am sure God probably didn’t envision Elvis performing such a solemn event in a Las Vegas casino back room, either but nobody seems to be trying to block that.” Oh, and if it is solely a religious institution governed only by the almighty, why can you get it done by a clerk in city hall without ever having to deal with a cleric of any sort?

I know that some of my readers may stomp and chew and spit because of this post and some may leave nasty remarks in t he comments and some may even stop coming here or lambaste me in a forum somewhere, but I don’t care. If that makes them happy, so be it. They can do what they want to do because this is still a free country. We should keep it that way.

You see how that works?

So, let the categorization of me begin.

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Spin City

Monday, March 15th, 2010

Now, I’m one of the first people to say that I just really don’t care what people do in their personal lives but rules are rules. That being said, I also want to add that I don’t agree with DADT, but again rules are rules. Now with THAT being said, I would like to say just how much I think the following story is an utter load of yellow journalism bullshite.

Jene Newsome played by the rules as an Air Force sergeant: She never told anyone in the military she was a lesbian. The 28-year-old’s honorable discharge under the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy came only after police officers in Rapid City, S.D., saw an Iowa marriage certificate in her home and told the nearby Ellsworth Air Force Base.

Okay, let’s start right friggin’ here. What are the criteria for being discharged under Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell? They’re simple: statement, act, marriage. If you say you’re gay (you know, the “tell” part), you’re out. If you get caught doing the warm and squishy with a member of your own gender, you’re out. If you get married to a member of your own sex, you’re out. Oh, and you can’t ask if someone is gay. It’s that simple. It really is taht freaking simple. So Was Jene Newsome “[playing] by the rules”? Nope, not a bit. She got married, she broke the rules.

Newsome and the American Civil Liberties Union filed a complaint against the western South Dakota police department, claiming the officers violated her privacy when they informed the military about her sexual orientation. The case also highlights concerns over the ability of third parties to “out” service members, especially as the Pentagon has started reviewing the 1993 “don’t ask, don’t tell” law.

“I played by ‘don’t ask, don’t tell,’” Newsome told The Associated Press by telephone.

No Jene, you didn’t and that’s why you’ve been discharged. The fact that the police made it known to the Air Force that you were married to another woman does not violate Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell… your marriage did that. So now you want to file suit because someone tattled on you for breaking the rules and you want people to think that your decision to break those rules is actually a violation of your privacy? Really? So if the police notified the Air Force that you were smoking pot (another UCMJ violation) would that be a violation of your privacy too, or would it just be informing the military that one of its members had gone off the reservation? What about deserters and AWOLs that get caught by police and turned over to the military? That’s simultaneously a sticky wicket and a slippery slope. If you think you’re getting away with this, think again.

You broke the rules, you got caught, suck it up.

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Caveat Emptor

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

Gay leaders in Washington, though, have been loath to publicly criticize the president. They say they still view Obama as an ally and think private talks are more promising than public pressure.

Still, it was especially frustrating for some left-leaning gay figures to see the otherwise dreaded former Vice President Dick Cheney publicly express his support this week for letting states allow gay marriage – a position that puts him to the left of Obama.

“I think that freedom means freedom for everyone,” Cheney said in an appearance Monday at the National Press Club.

Obama also has been criticized for a joke at the expense of same-sex marriage. After the White House Correspondents Association dinner, columnist Dan Savage fumed that Obama’s only reference since being sworn in to the high-profile drive toward same-sex marriage in Iowa had been a joke about going to the state with longtime friend and adviser David Axelrod to “make it official.”

A little hint for the LGBT community… you get what you pay for. And it looks like you’re probably going to be paying for this one for a long, long time.

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Now This Is Irony

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

BOSTON – A lesbian couple who led the fight for gay marriage in Massachusetts has filed for divorce. Julie and Hillary Goodridge were among seven gay couples who filed a lawsuit that led to a court ruling making Massachusetts the first state to legalize same-sex marriages in 2004. The couple became the public face of the debate in the state and married the first day same-sex marriages became legal.

The divorce case was filed last week in Suffolk Probate and Family Court and was not unexpected. The couple announced they were separating in 2006.

Wait a minute, they were married just two years and they already got divorced? Considering the brevity of the marriage this divorce can only mean one of the following:

1. This was just a sham marriage/publicity stunt to further gay marriage in the first place.
or
2. Gays are just as screwed as straights when it comes to failed marriages.
or
3. They’re channeling Mickey Rooney

I’ve said it a billion times and I’ll repeat it again; I don’t care who you love/hump/marry/whatever as long s the other is a consenting adult for whatever species you’re getting it on with… but you would think that if you’re leading the charge as the pioneers for gay marriage in your state you might want the length of your marriage to be longer than the warranty on your washer and dryer.

Just sayin’.

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Gay Marriage Ban Protested. Eyes Gouged. Faces Slapped. Ensembles Viciously Insulted

Friday, November 7th, 2008

Seven people were arrested Thursday during ongoing protests in Los Angeles and San Francisco against California’s passage of a ban on gay marriage.

LAPD Officer Jason Lee said the marchers were mostly peaceful in the demonstration against Proposition 8 that began Wednesday night in West Hollywood and continued into Thursday morning.
I will repeat what I have said a thousand times: whatever floats your boat as long as it doesn’t sink mine. If you want to play “Fuzzy Pumper Sausage Shop” with your male partner or “let’s pretend we’re Fidel Castro” with your earthy, flannel bedecked female partner, I could give two rats asses. But the law is the law. People have spoken and it didn’t go your way so just deal with it already. You didn’t see a bunch of old, white, venture capitalists throwing rocks at community centers after Obama was elected, did you? No, you didn’t.
Now, behave and get back to antiquing and decoupage and Liza or whatever it is that you were doing before you started getting all angry. Remember, gay and angry are antonyms you sillies!
If gay marriage can’t pass in California, it just isn’t in the cards right now folks.

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I’m All About “Whatever Floats Your Boat”, But Let’s Not Paint It As Education

Monday, October 13th, 2008
Note: These are not the lesbians that got married… these are Hollywood lesbians… real lesbians are usually much heftier and less femanine.

First-graders in San Francisco took a field trip to City Hall to celebrate the marriage of their lesbian teacher on Friday, but opponents of same-sex marriage in the state say the field trip was an attempt to “indoctrinate” the students, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

The field trip was suggested by a parent at the Creative Arts Charter School, and the school said the trip, where students tossed rose petals on their teacher and her wife as they left City Hall, was academically relevant.

“It really is what we call a teachable moment,” said Liz Jaroslow, the school’s interim director, according to the newspaper. She said same-sex marriage had historic significance. “I think I’m well within the parameters.”

Yeah, I’ve never heard of straight teachers taking their entire classes to their weddings. Oh, and I’m guessing that a bunch of first graders aren’t going to grasp the subtle nuances of the relevance of the historical importance of two women vowing to nibble each other’s labia exclusively for the rest of eternity.

Bottom line: I’m throwing the bullshit flag on this one. All that this trumped up press conference was is a bogus, leftist ploy being played out irresponsibly by a couple of adults utilizing children to realize their own selfish agenda.

Like I said, I have no problem with whomever you like to bump uglies, but leave the kids out of it and don’t try to paint it as a learning experience when it’s really simple exploitation of children combined with a cheap attempt to save a vacation day.

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