alphanubilus wrote:Guess who's coming back into POWER! Now all you godless heathens will DIE!!!! MWAHAHAHAHAHHA... I'm joking... I am... I really am...
That would have been funny if it wasn't so close to the real thing. That's the worst thing about 21st century Republicans: most of them are so over-the-top outrageously fanatical that you can't tell the parodies from the real deal anymore.
This leads to communism. The reality is, we have keep things balanced, or we tip too far in either direction.
Chris pretty much beat me to this one. Communism and socialism are not the dirty words the Republicans use them as. The reality is that the only "communist" governments that ever existed (Russia, China, Cuba, etc.) were not
really communists, rather they were just dictatorships who identified themselves as communist. Really, Fidel Castro is to communism what Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is to democracy. Just because someone flies the flag doesn't mean they are so.
Let's face some facts folks, people make a big hallbaloo about gay marraige and how it should be accepted and all, but what about polygamy? What about incest? What about beastiality...
Yes, yes, and yes. If for no reason other than because it's none of our
sexing business what people do in their own homes and I don't want the government spending tax dollars trying to restrict and police something that otherwise means nothing.
Polygamy? If everyone involved is fine with it: Yes.
Incest? Slightly more problematic due to the genetic disorders that can result from it, but still, if it's their decision: Yes.
Bestiality? Not really the same since both sides can't give their verbal consent, but think about this: Why is it illegal for someone to *ahem* an animal, but not to have it mutilated or killed? Telling somebody they can't do it with a cow after they just ate a hamburger. . . Wouldn't that be kind of like if all the Republicans who approved the three trillion dollar war in Iraq pointed at the one trillion dollar health care reform bill and called it wasteful government spending?
(Oh, wait, they did do that.)
Yeah, you're right, I did cringe. But you know what? Doesn't
sexing matter what I think, because it
doesn't affect me.
The only thing I'm going to say is that I think you're right about heterosexual couples being favored for the sake of breeding. Except I don't think politicians support them with the intent of raising future taxpayers: I think it's with the intent of raising future
Republicans. The article about the Republican scandals summed it up really nicely with this:
"I think that being gay is the way God made some people and being conservative is a choice, and almost every Republican I’ve met thinks the opposite."
Republicans are brought up from birth to associate being conservative with being directly related to their class, race, and religion. Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck love to pass themselves off as the true faces of the G.O.P., but the
real face of the G.O.P. is the quiet moderate that
knows the G.O.P. is rotten from top to bottom, but who feels sick to his stomach at just the mere thought of voting Democrat. Without those brainwashed, identity-deprived creatures of habit keeping them afloat, Sarah Palin really
would be the true face of the G.O.P. and it would have become nothing more than a radical fringe party decades ago.
That's why I think the G.O.P. is really opposed to homosexual (
and interracial) marriage: Because those are the parents who will teach their kids to think for themselves.