Ain't It Funny?
I haven't been posting in a while since I really don't have too much to say, but since the world is going to hell in a handbasket, I have decided to focus on something that has really gotten on my nerves. The quote below is by our illustrious president....
“I come from a family committed to civil rights,” Bush said. “My faith tells me that we are all children of God – equally loved, equally cherished, equally entitled to the rights He grants us all."
Well, if that were true Gerogie boy you wouldn't have supported the FMA which would prohibit gay people from marrying and nullify domestic partnerships. Yeah, I know people will say, "Rob if you just wait a little longer, things will change." or "This isn't an issue that needs to be debated when so many other things are going on in the United States." My answer to those statements is...Bullshit! Don't tell me to wait to be treated equally like 90 percent of the population. These same sentiments were said during the Civil Rights Movement. If my grandparents would have 'waited' for their rights, they wouldn't have been able to vote or (gasp!) eat at a restuarant with white people. So, no I'm not going to wait any longer.
Mr. Bush please don't say you're commited to civil rights when in reality you are just trying to pacify black people. (You only got 10 percent of the black vote, remember?) If you are commited to civil rights, you have to believe in civil rights for everyone.
Ain't it funny, indeed.
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Rob, your anger is not unwarranted. And while there are crazy things going on in the world that may be more pressing, Bush's comment reveals alot about his shameless ability to pretend that he's compassionate.
i guess the good/bad news is that no one at the NAACP or in Washington really BELIEVES him when he says he is a 'uniter' and treats people equally (to him, all people are equal if they agree with his Rove-designed ideology. I mean, he's got women & hispanics & blacks in his cabinet! and they all agree with him, so those differenty people can't be all bad!).
honestly, even Nixon met with the NAACP. And he was a douchebag.
I think that Bush doesn't really care about banning gay marriage as much as he cares about using people's fears and prejudices to gain power. Then again, he is a frat-boy knucklehead who probably had a few homoerotic encounters in college and feels all weird about them. so who knows? maybe when he gets drunk he asks his woman to wear a football uniform and asks to call her Dan to relive the glory days. and maybe this is all just lashing out at the desires he can no longer embrace b/c he found god. and is president of a country that fears any discussion of sex, whether heterosexual or homosexual.
Or maybe I'm just an unpatriotic asshole.
Posted by: evan | July 20, 2006 11:30 PM
See, the trick here is that he says everyone is entitled to the rights of God, not the rights of the United States.
I don't think gay people should "shut up and wait their turn." Clearly Bush is using divisive social issues to distract from his towering incompetency in the actual act of governing. But in this issue, like abortion and stem cell research, the conservatives may have already really won because they have defined the terms of the debate to include their "morality." The debates about gay marriage, abortion, and stem cell research shouldn't even be concerned with whether they are morally wrong; I don't care what your opinion on the morality of the subject it. It is not a democracy's job to legislate morality. The question is should it be legal - is it in the best interests of the state and of its citizens? It is not at all contradictory to think that "gay marriage," "abortion," and "stem cell research" (meaning the individual acts) are immoral and wrong and still think that they should be legal in this country, because it is in this country's best interests to make them legal. Plenty of things are wrong but still legal. Showing your thong in public, for instance. Or mullets.
Of course, on my own decidedly un-Christian sliding scale of morality, homosexual love is not only legal, but morally right. Especially if it involves Heath Ledger and sweet, sweet Jake Gyllenhaal in a tent in Montana.
Posted by: Victoria | July 21, 2006 12:32 PM
check out what Ton Snow had to say:
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/20/snow-minorities/
Posted by: evan | July 21, 2006 1:40 PM
hey, i'm one white girl who'd not only eat at a restaurant with you, but gladly go to your wedding. especially if there's free food.
well, i'm sorta off-white. but the sentiment is there.
your post brought to mind jon stewart's riff on yesterday's "daily show" about GWB's speech in front of the NAACP. it's hilarious, but also outrage-inducing, since he puts bush's rhetoric about the sanctity of life and equality for all against GWB's callousness about the carnage in iraq. check it out if you can.
Posted by: phaedra | July 21, 2006 7:57 PM