July 1, 2003
Guest Blogger (Co-worker Phil): Hey! Ho! Let's Gomorrah!
Original at PuddingTime!
The rhetorical tack that opponents of last week's Supreme Court decision seem to be market-testing is, if you think what gays and lesbians do in private is their own business, then you must be in favor of incest--or you might as well be, because as sure as candy's sweet that'll be legal tomorrow, too. (Between adults, anyway.)
Which is, of course, horseshit six different ways, but it's interesting that I've heard the word "incest" a half-dozen times since Thursday, and not once from somebody who actually wanted to do his own sister. Am I so out of touch? It never even occurred to me that there might be a Brother/Sister Love Lobby just waiting for the right cultural moment to bring their shame into the sunlight. (To think I used to work in a liquor store that carried "Family Love" magazine on the porn rack. Right under our noses, people!) And Rick Santorum sternly intones that marriage isn't open to man and dog (no matter how committed their relationship)--but that could change.
I'm not ignorant of the Abyss that beckons in the heart of Man; I know there is vile business being conducted in attics, cellars, and darken'd apartments the world over. But if religious conservatives truly believe the Rehnquist Supreme Court has set a course for the depraved dystopias that burn blackly in their tortured sleep, they ought to be spending more time in therapy and less in church.
I'm a card-carrying Married who's successfully bred once. There are a lot of things I worry may threaten my family. This isn't one of them.
--pk
Posted by Mikal at July 1, 2003 9:00 AM
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You got it right, Phil. You'd think there are more important issues in this country (like jobs, good wages, health care for all, a fully funded social security system, water - esp out West, roads, & worker safety), but evidently this means not only the Court but the entire country "has largely signed on" to the "so-called homosexual agenda." Funny, I never got the memo on that, but I don't see any negatives to letting people do what they want to sexually in their own bedrooms, getting health & other benefits from their partners, adopting kids, or even getting married. Who do they think the "all" is in "liberty and justice for ALL?"
