| Dec. 7th, 2008 @ 09:12 am Huh….so sheep & men = gay marriage? WTF?!!!?! |
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I read one of the more disturbing news articles on the Gay Marriage argument this morning. From our local station, King 5 (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28079776) the University of Washington student newspaper used a silhouette picture of a man and a sheep to illustrate an anti-Gay marriage OP/Ed.
How in the hell is a sheep and a man equal to two committed individuals who happen to be of the same sex who want to be married to one another? *shakes head* I’ve no idea of where the writer of the column’s head was but the use of the picture to (quote) “There was a slippery slope argument made in the article about gay marriage leading to other forms of union and that was what illustration was meant to illustrate,” said Jeglum.
Once again I have to ask…. WTF?
Earlier this week one of the radio talk shows asked the noon question of does not being in support of Gay Marriage automatically make you homophobic. Personally, I don’t think so. I do however think that it means that you are a bigot with all of the lovely connotations of that word.
Marriage has never been about a sacred contract between a man, a woman and God, it’s a property transaction dressed up in religious frippery. Marriage was a transaction between heads of households – ‘I’ll trade you three good cows and grazing rights for the right to have sex with your daughter, plant children in her body and cook and clean up after me.’ *shakes hands* ‘Let’s stand up in front of the priest next Friday to make it known to all.’ Or ‘Hey, if I offer up this amount of gold and my daughter, can I have that plot of land down by the lake?’
It really strikes a chord within me when SuzieQ and JoeBlow can run down and get married and divorced 12 times if they want because they are ‘a man and a woman’ but Rusty and Steve who en together 37 years (through real sickness and health, richer and poorer) cannot.
*arrrrgh*
In the holiday spirit I’ve been knitting and baking. Made 18 mini loaves of gingerbread yesterday for my team mates at work and then chewy ginger snaps….hmmmmmm tasty. |
