Death to homophobic Republicans
• Homophobia
A silly-ass editorial by some cracker named David Brooks is showing up all over the damn place. I haven't read it and won't but the comments make it sound as though it was inspired at least partly by a touchingly baffled editorial by log cabin poster boy Andrew Sullivan.
Why should nonreligious social conservative Republicans not want to make queers more like Ward and June?
Damn if I can think of a sane reason to think of heterosexual marriage as something spiffy in a godly or social way. Most straight people get divorced. One or both of them change as even the mediocre can do. Or realize their bonding was based on a transitory hormonal flux. ("Hmmm … what a hottie!" or more likely "I need some bad, I need some every night.")
I'm sure we (gay folks) can do at least as well.
If I were a woman I'd view any Biblical view of marriage as a reason to kick the bastard in the balls.
Look, many straight people think queers are creepy (sounds like a demented slogan for a cereal, Queerios anyone?). Your sub-average hetero thinks of gay sex as an emetic.
Socially conservative Republicans as a species find gay men and women especially repugnant. Some are probably merely haunted by unwanted sexual imagery. For others the demon is that dreaded demon "not normality as I conceive of it." The silly Us vs. Them shit leads to all sorts of crazy reactions from soccer riots to fag bashing.
Andrew Sullivan may be willing to kiss Bush's ass for bombing Iraq but he's just the (log) cabin boy on the Titanic. Conservatives are willing to use him. Some may even concede he's not bad "for a fag."
I can't pretend I have the analytical gifts to detangle all strands of homophobia buried in the minds of people who are Republicans for other than strictly fiscal hopes.
Republican strategists know a source of votes and money when they see one. Week after week fundies sit on their uncomfortable pews and hear about the Homosexual Agenda (written by those who were left over from the Protocols of the Elders of Zion). If gay folks can marry then marriage as they know it will end (an end to cumbersome hypocrisy?).
You know the thin margin that somebody or other had in 2000? Well, horrifying to say, about a fourth of the evangelical nutters voted. Scare the shit out of them and more will vote and more will give money.
Their cash and votes will give conservative Republicans an extra shove in the directions they most want to go. Where's the incentive to worry if queers can have a more 'socially positive' lifestyle. (I'm one of those monogamous homos but would never criticize another for a steady diet of quick, uninvolved sodomy.)
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