Goddamned Homersexualists
I don’t know if there is another group of more low-life lizards on the face of the planet than gaybashers, particularly those who make a song and dance about gay marriage being some sort of issue.
There are more evil and more psychopathic people, for sure, and more cynical and dishonest. Even the Iraq war cheerleaders are responding to the clear and serious danger of terrorism, albeit in the most insane way I can imagine. But at least the issue is real.
Gay marriage opponents who pretend that allowing other people the same rights they enjoy is in some way a threat to ‘families’ are basically using the relentless persecution and alienation of people who have done nothing to them as some sort of whipping boy (Rrowrr!) on which to inflict all their own insecurity, fear and self loathing. They are pathetic and they make me sick.
Mrs. Toad’s best man was gay. I have been to more gay weddings (two) than straight ones (my own) and the idea that this ‘gayness’ can in any way affect myself and my young lady’s desire to spend the rest of our lives together and raise a couple of irritating little gob-shites is so utterly farcical as to barely warrant a response.
So these disgraceful fucking lizards use their religion as little more than a stick to beat other people with and get all het up about the danger posed to families by people wanting to actually make more families. And yet, with a sort of depressing inevitability, there is nary a whisper heard about what our culture of entitlement and instant gratification might do to people’s determination to stick it out through the good times and the bad as their lover grows old and fat and wrinkly. I’m not making any claims, of course, but it seems a little more relevant than sticking your nose into the relationships of people who have absolutely no involvement in your life whatsoever.
What brought this on? Well apparently gay marriage represents a threat to families and children, but this sort of idiotic stunt doesn’t. Right. In the words of Wendy Leach: ‘Well thank you for popping in and protecting us.’
Beck – Sexxlaws Yes, I know, the obvious one.
Fleetwood Mac – Family Man Don’t whinge. I’m not a massive fan, but I heard this quite a lot growing up so I don’t hate it as much as my inner indie snob thinks I should!
Iggy Pop – A Family Affair
The Magnetic Fields – When My Boy Walks Down the Street
These songs and your post are so gay.
Aaagh, she’s right. Won’t someone think of the children! I have obviously caught Teh Gay. Mrs Toad will be disappointed. Perhaps.
Thanks.
VERY nicely said. How does queer-folk marrying affect any straight couple? Are they that insecure?
Well bloody quite. Are they suggesting that our marriage is so shaky that at the mere sight of gay people our entire family might fall apart and I’ll drop to my knees and nosh off the nearest chap I can get my grubby little hands on? Fuckwits.
I think you are right about everything here.
Although, with regards to that sign, yes it’s a threat to marriage but it’s a good thing when we live in a society where people are free to advertise in such a way, regardless of morals.
No, in all honesty I don’t think that sign is any real threat to marriage at all. But at least it is vaguely relevant.
The idea that more people wanting to get married somehow threatens marriage is like suggesting more people wanting to watch movies is a threat to the movie industry.
The newspaper article which sparked you off is no longer available. But I am with you 100% on this one.
Attitudes are changing. I reckon the vast majority of folk in the world are more tolerant of same-sex relationships/marriages than ever before. And its because of this that those who are in the minority are becoming far more vocal about it. Having said that, I was appalled by the piece I saw on BBC World News on holiday about a demo in Russia where Peter Tatchell was assaulted, so its clear that there’s still a lot that needs to be done.
‘The idea that more people wanting to get married somehow threatens marriage is like suggesting more people wanting to watch movies is a threat to the movie industry.’ I like that analogy. Must throw it into my next conversation with the one homophobe that I know…..
Now actually, Jim, that reminds me of a piece I read about the increase in people with gay friends, or at least gay people in their general sphere, which is, above all else, what seems to be making a massive, massive difference.
Knowing gay people=realising they aren’t dragons.
And next, as more of us come into more regular contact with asylum-seekers, so the despicable attitude towards them held by so many will change.
It might take a couple of decades but it will eventually happen. I base this on the fact that my mum hated ‘poofs’. But I’m certain she never knowingly met a gay person until my student days (81-85). Her attitude is completely different nowadays now she has been in their company….
As ever,a great bit of thoughtful writing my amigo
My Grandma was much the same. She used the phrase ‘dirty arabs’ with abandon to describe brown people, but should anyone be less than respectful to anyone she knew and liked who just happened to be brownish, she’d tear them a new (ahem!).
Billy Bragg’s Distant Shore springs to mind…