This Week in the Mercury
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Homo What He Said
Posted by Dan Savage on Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 9:30 AM
As Jesse Ventura said last night, “You can’t put a civil rights issue on the ballot and let the people decide. You have to have elected officials to who have courage to make the right decision. If you left it up to the people, we’d have slavery, depending on how you worded it.”But when our lives aren’t run by mob rule, we do pretty well: We’ve pretty much conquered Hollywood.
We’ve conquered academia. The press is ours. Book publishing? Ours! The governments of Western and Northern Europe? Ours! And considering how people until 40 feel in this country, the future is ours, too!So, this is what I have to say to Frank Schubert, Maggie Gallagher, Brian Brown, the Catholic Church, LDS, to the born-again nut jobs who haven’t a clue what the Golden Rule means and to the people who think that telling children that gay people exist is something like terrorism: Fuck you. Really: Fuck you. Fuck your lies. Your hypocrisy. Your cruelty. Fuck your pick-and-choose-only-the-most-bigoted-parts religion. Fuck your ignorance. Fuck your fear. Fuck you. Please: Eat shit and die. Fuck you. Very much.
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Sometimes voting is not the way to go. It is like they say, you can't put three foxes and a hen together and ask them to vote on what's for dinner.
That dude is an intellectual Tyrannosaurus.
Yes, elected officials forcing their will on the people is a GREAT idea.....if you agree with them.
How many of you wish the people had been able to vote on whether we invaded Iraq?
And before I get skewered here for being a homophobe/biggot, I'm 100% in favor of complete marriage rights for gays.
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