Showing posts with label gay marriage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gay marriage. Show all posts
Monday, March 9, 2009
they really are the same thing
Gay marriage and robot marriage. I'm sure Yglesias will be all over this.
Thursday, February 5, 2009
never ever get married
A dating service for married people. Really? This feeds my argument that EVERYONE wants to be single. just sayin'. Makes you wonder why gays want any part of this so-called institution.
Update: There is no youtube of Liz Phair's Love/Hate Transmission. Here is an old post with the lyrics. At any rate, here is the Divorce song.
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Friday, October 24, 2008
in local news(sort of)
If you didn't know the local religion here in the city of saints is bank rolling the effort to end gay marriage in California. Andrew Sullivan has covered this here. Among other places. But here is an article in the Salt Lake Tribune explains the tactics of the Church leadership.
The LDS First Presidency announced its support for Proposition 8 in a letter read in every Mormon congregation. Since then, California LDS leaders have prompted members to sign up volunteers, raise money, pass out brochures produced by outsiders and distribute lawn signs and bumper stickers. Bishops have devoted whole Sunday school classes and the weekly Relief Society and priesthood meetings to outlining arguments against same-sex marriage. Some have pointedly asked members for hefty financial donations, based on tithing. Others have even asked members to stand or raise their hands to publicly indicate their support.
It also explores the costs of Mormon homophobia.
"I do expect the church to face a high cost - both externally and internally - for its prominent part in the campaign," said LDS sociologist and Proposition 8 supporter Armand Mauss of Irvine, Calif. He believes church leaders feel a "prophetic imperative" to speak out against gay marriage.
"The internal cost will consist of ruptured relationships between and among LDS members of opposing positions, sometimes by friends of long standing and equally strong records of church activity," Mauss said. "In some cases, it will result in disaffection and disaffiliation from the church because of the ways in which their dissent has been handled by local leaders."
This is very Christ-like, while I am not particularly anti-LDS (Not more than I am against any religion, anyway) this is despicable but predictable behavior by a church that worships the values of the neo-lithic age. Here is one woman's response to her church's efforts.
The thought of going to church in her southern California LDS ward makes Carol Oldham cry. She can't face one more sermon against same-sex marriage. She can't tolerate the glares at the rainbow pin on her lapel. Oldham, a lifelong Mormon, is troubled by her church's zeal in supporting a California ballot initiative that would define marriage as between one man and one woman. She feels the church is bringing politics into her sanctuary.
"It has tainted everything for me," Oldham said, choking up during a telephone interview. "I am afraid to go there and hear people say mean things about gay people. I am in mourning. I don't know how long I can last."
Thursday, September 18, 2008
straight people whine
These people are fantastic. They refuse to sign their marriage license because it says party A and party B instead of bride and groom. Get this.
"We just feel that our rights have been violated," she said.
To some, the couple's stand may seem frivolous. But others believe "bride" and "groom" are terms that are too important for the state to set aside.
"Those who support (same-sex marriage) say it has no impact on heterosexuals," said Brad Dacus of the Pacific Justice Institute. "This debunks that argument."
Are you fucking kidding me? Of course the kicker is that these two paragons of morality have five kids between them from previous marriages. Maybe they should have just stayed married. The sanctity of marraige? Yeah right.
Thursday, July 26, 2007
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