Where The Rubber Meets The Road

As Bob Hope and Bing Crosby might have sang, had
1). they gone there, and
2). there was an actual road to it,
we’re off on the road to Jamaica.

Then, of course, ol’ Bing would have slapped you around a little.

See you all after I find out just how authentic this Jamaican Jerk is. In the meantime, you can play spot-the-tag-that-doesn’t-belong. Hint: it’s not “Blurb”.

Yesterday, the California Supreme Court upheld Proposition Hate. Okay, Prop 8. Spot the difference if you can. Here, I give you my open letter to those who funded, supported, campaigned and voted for yet another attempt to create a precedent for second-class citizens:

“Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.” – Matthew 25:40

Is there something unclear about that passage? Are you so ignorant of the tenets of your own religion that you don’t even know what you’re doing? Or are you just scared shitless?
What is it, exactly, that frightens you so? Pee-pees and hoo-hoos being touched by the wrong gender, out of your sight or any other means of perception? Proof that people who are not like you live just as meaningful, rich, and productive lives as any other?

What you are doing is wrong. There is no argument for it that doesn’t immediately collapse under ten seconds of rational scrutiny. Your behaviors and actions are discredited by reason, science, precedent, history, compassion, and law. So, backed into a corner by all measures of merit and common sense, you cling to your so-called faith (which apparently is so weak that you must denounce the Founding Fathers as godless heathens for keeping church and state separate, and force your very distinct and irretrievably repugnant brand of cultism upon others so that you won’t feel insecure), again and again attempting to sit in judgment of others whom your god alone reserves the right to judge.

“Marriage” has become your latest shield, a threadbare veil to drape over the hate in your hearts. Of course, you tell yourself that you aren’t usurping the one true judge you claim to believe in, arrogantly insisting you know know his mind, and acting without his blessing as his terrible, swift sword; what you’re actually doing is defending “marriage.” A tradition, sacrosanct and pure. Yeah, that’s the ticket.

But your “tradition” of marriage lies at the end of another twisted path through the halls of history, as any historian can tell you that marriage came into being in order to gather wealth. For the umpteenth time, “marriage” is a contract rooted in wealth and property consolidation that was only made a “sacrament” because the clergy wanted more control of wealth and property. In that respect, it was no better than the corrupt and immoral Catholic “indulgences.” Marriage was a contract between two people and the state. Arguing on the basis of your religious beliefs is invalid and cowardly. First, our country was not founded on religious principles. Yes, many of the Founding Fathers were religious. Yes, similar wording can be found in religious texts. But the simple fact is, our country was founded on the principle of rule of law, and that law was deliberately made secular so that the government could not interfere with religious beliefs, and vice versa. Second (as if a second should be needed), as explained above, “marriage” is not the province of any, some, or all religion(s). Never has been; never will be. No religion or group of religions can lay claim to it. It came from Common Law, and to Common Law it will always belong. You have no “tradition” or “sacrament” that predates Common Law’s claim on marriage. You’re wrong. Get over it.

History also teaches us that homosexuality has been, is now, and ever will be, and you don’t “catch” it by being near gay people; thus (for example), the children that they raise will love whomever they desire regardless of their upbringing.

Alas, history and it’s students are just more heathens to add to the ever-growing majority of people who don’t think as you do.

Call it like it is, so-called defenders of “traditional marriage”. You just don’t like gay people. There’s nothing wrong with that. Nobody is going to – or will ever – force you to like another person. That’s your decision to make. And as such, attempts to cloak this dislike by calling on religion is pure and simple cowardice. Anyone who does this is a complete and total pussy. No; fuck you; you’re a pussy. A chickenshit who isn’t man or woman enough to stand up and say, “I just don’t like them, and I don’t want them being equal to me.”

And I know why you don’t do say that. We all do, even you. It’s because you will lose this battle over civil rights if you do. But if you had any guts at all, that’s what you would say.
So what if gay people could marry and adopt? It doesn’t mean you have to like it, or them. In fact, it will have no effect on your life whatsoever. You’ll go right on not liking them, and they’ll go right on living their lives, not giving a shit about you.

No historian, scientist, or gay person has ever invaded your home, forced you to abandon your beliefs, stolen your money, enslaved your children to a lifestyle you find repulsive, burned your dwelling to the ground, spit and hurled curses at you, and/or defiled your holy text(s) because of their “faith”.

Why, then, do you feel you must do unto others as they have never done unto you?
I think your friend Jesus might have said something about that, too.