migblog

unless you've been living under a rock, you know that two things are rocking all of america: american idol, which is captivating the hearts and minds of everyone below thirty, and gay marriage, which is captivating the ideologies and political outsets of everyone over eighteen. (notice that there's a nice overlap that concerns both issues in a certain age group.)

to quote our dear friend margaret cho, "love is love is love."

ever notice how in protests against same-sex marriage, there's the guy in the back that has the "jesus will save you" placard, with all these quoted bible verses under it? and then you have to remember that there was this clause in the constitution called the first amendment that says "congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;..." -- mind you, this is the first thing in the amendment, even before free speech, freedom of the press, assembly, and petition. i'm saying, if bush is proposing an amendment, no thanks, says the constitution.

and he has the balls to say "sanctity of marriage." if marriage is so holy, why is the divorce rate so high? why are there so many single-parent homes in america? how can he explain all those jerry springer moments when cousins and sisters and brothers all "love" each other? and to quote marriage being more natural between a man and a woman because of family -- ha!

i'm all for equality. civil unions are pretty much worthless. i'm just hoping that the clause that comes after the decision in the courts is not "with all deliberate speed" since we all knew what happened to brown v board of education fifty years ago.

would this count as a sexual revolution? back then it was pretty clear who was what -- yellow, red, brown, black, white -- but now, there's a giant umbrella tag (lgbtiq) that basically tries to say "not straight." and it doesn't matter what color you are. it doesn't even matter who they go to sleep with; it's the matter of they're second-class citizens now, and when is that going to change?

this is what watching sixty minutes last night makes me think.

posted by Open Source Food @ 10:09 AM