All Right.
I recently posted an admittedly lightweight and slightly smug take on my feelings about gay marriage. I stand by those remarks as they apply to me. Obviously, that was before The President Of The United States expressed his desire to amend the Constitution and legalize at a Federal level discrimination against me and mine. To quote Bugs Bunny, " Of course you realize this means war." I admit it, I was stunned. The audacity! Now, I hope everyone is smart enough to realize this amendment will never come to pass. I hope everyone is smart enough to see that this is a desperate attempt by an elected official to be re-elected by attacking a group that by and large wouldn't support him anyway. None of that is really that important though. The fact of the matter is he said it. He really and truly said it on national television. Our job now is to make sure that he is well and truly punished for it. It is now up to gays and lesbians nationwide to throw down on George Bush. We have to honest to god collectively bitch slap that bastard as only real faggots can.
More than that we have to enlist the help of all well meaning friends and family to join us. You have a gay or lesbian son/daughter you claim to love like all your kids? Prove it. Vote him out of office.
You have a best gay friend you've been having brunch with once a month on Sundays? Prove it. Vote him out of office.
You believe that discrimination in any form is unacceptable and the supposed leader of the free world should probably be the last person to try to place discriminatory language into the Constitution? Prove it. Vote him out of office.
More than that, we must all demand our leading candidates stop playing both ends against the middle with this "I don't believe in gay marriage but I don't think we need an amendment crap." We need to insist they pick a position immediately and publicly. As had been said at the dawn of our most recent war, "You are either with us, or against us." Pick a side.
"President Bush has betrayed his campaign promise to be 'a uniter, not a divider. By endorsing this shameful proposal, President Bush will go down in history as the first president to try to write bias back into the Constitution." Sen. Edward Kennedy
"Log Cabin Republicans are more determined than ever to fight the anti-family Constitutional amendment with all our resources. Writing discrimination into our Constitution violates conservative and Republican principles. This amendment would not strengthen marriage - it would weaken our nation. As conservative Republicans, we are outraged that any Republican - particularly the leader of our party and this nation - would support any effort to use our sacred United States Constitution as a way of scoring political points in an election year." Log Cabin Executive Director Patrick Guerriero (Wake the fuck up! They don't like you, they don't want you, but they will take your money and use it to beat you down!)
Andrew Sullivan
Had anyone told me 2 days ago that my newest post would contain quotes from Ted Kennedy, the Log Cabin Republicans and a link to Andrew Sullivan I would have taken their temperature. The times have truly changed. The time to fight is now.
Don't worry. Part 2 of the sex story tomorrow....
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