Well Played, Sir

This week Obama ordered the Justice Department to stop enforcing the Defense of Marriage Act, declaring it discriminatory and therefore unconstitutional.  This comes on the heels of our president signing the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell into law.  This is good work.  No, it's not going to create jobs, fix the deficit or get Falling Rock National Park into the daily papers, but progress is progress.

Of course a few headaches are inevitable as the same, tired arguments come slinking out from under rocks, but you know what:

I don't want to hear about the horrible things this is going to do to traditional marriage.  By now we know that traditional marriage can take care of itself.  Oh hey!  Is that Massachusetts with the lowest divorce rate in the nation?  Huh!  How about that?

Don't tell me this will lead to people marrying more than one person, their sibling, their labradoodle, their inflatable doll.  Take your 'where does it end??' argument and put it where heaping, stinking piles of ignorance belong.

I'm really not interested in what the Bible has to say on the subject.  I'm not sure I want my moral compass guided by a text that obliges me to execute my neighbors if I catch them working on a Sunday.

I don't give a damn what some blithering, dithering radio host with brain fever has to say.

And don't hand me a crock of bull about how people in 29 states voted in referendums.  The majority does not necessarily rule when it comes to civil rights.  At some point, sanity must intervene on behalf of the less privileged.

You done good, Mr. President, in giving a nation of infants a little nudge toward adulthood.  May your views regarding the subject continue to evolve.

nwb

The McBone List of Civilized States

Hey, opponents of same-sex marriage, do you know why you will lose your futile battle with equality?  Because you have no argument!  While we may be a nation of Christians, we are not a Christian nation.  Nor are we Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu, Wiccan, Scientologist, or god knows what else. That's already good news for an atheist, who is perfectly free to marry his Buddhist girlfriend in the chambers of a Jewish judge.  One day it will be good news for gay people too, in every single state.

Also, please try to understand that your ideology isn't protecting anything, not families, not marriage, not morals.  Certainly not children.  The children!  Can you please stop infecting their cherubic little heads with the filth of your backward and miserable convictions?  That'd be super, thanks.

One day you will wake up and realize that, in the face of your whithering notions about the way people ought to live, you were on the same side of history as the segregationists and anti-suffragists.  Nice legacy.  Enjoy!  In the meantime we applaud these states and their supreme courts for having the backbone to stand up to bigotry of the most ludicrous and baffling kind:

Connecticut
Iowa
Maine
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Vermont

McBone also would like to salute Governor John Matrix for changing his mind about Harvey Milk Day this past Sunday.  Eat that, Prop 8, you flea-ridden cur!

nwb

By the way, Protect Marriage website, way to look nonprejudiced by having a rotating banner picture featuring each of the four basic races: white, black, Mexican and Chinese.  Puh-thetic.