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Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Idiot of the Day - John Edwards, Another Wishy-Washy Candidate
“But I personally have been on a journey on this issue. I feel enormous conflict about it. As I think a lot of people know, Elizabeth spoke—my wife Elizabeth spoke out a few weeks ago, and she actually supports gay marriage. I do not. But this is a very, very difficult issue for me. And I recognize and have enormous respect for people who have a different view of it.”—John Edwards about gay marriage
What’s so “very very difficult” about an issue that doesn’t affect you one iota? Seriously. Why is anyone even allowed to have “enormous conflict” over my right to marry my partner of almost ten years? His answers feel very, I don’t know, cowardly. He’s afraid to lose the religious vote, so instead he’s willing to sound like an idiot? What straight person needs a “journey” to be in favor of gay marriage? Either you believe we should be afforded the same rights as straight couples, or you don’t. It’s that simple. This conflicted crap is annoying. Hey John, why don’t you just sit down and let Elizabeth run? She has the guts to express her opinions, even if religious bigots don’t agree with her. She takes on Ann Coulter, she takes on cancer, she seems to understand that her religious views shouldn’t have anything to do with other people’s lives. If a man is so conflicted over marriage, how on earth will he ever be able to manage the really difficult subjects like war, poverty, health, and repairing our very Bush-damaged reputation in the world? I have no faith that John Edwards is capable of acting like a grownup and being president. Sure, Bush is more immature, but look around and see how much money he’s wasted, how much good will, how many lives. I’m tired of wishy-washy Democrats who have no courage of their convictions, no ability to take a stand. I’d even have more respect for him if he flat out said, that as a religious nut, he’ll never be in favor of gay marriage. That he didn’t even have to think about it, that he’s just against it. At least that doesn’t make it sound like he sits around with an unlit pipe in his mouth, contemplating the ins and outs of gay marriage, and the philosophy behind it. So John, step aside and let the strong presidential candidate in your family run. Elizabeth Edwards for President. Actually, I’d like it to be a Gore/Edwards ticket. Elizabeth Edwards.
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Current rights given to “marriage” needs to be granted to all Civil Unions. *everyone* should be allowed to have civil unions for the rights- to share benefits, pensions, raise kids if interested, etc. Marriages should NOT be recognized by the government- this is a religious sacrament that needs to be given back to the church. End of emotional conflict - end of Separate but Equal bullshit- complete separation of church and state. This is what needs to be done, but no one has the balls to enact this.
on 07/24 at 10:19 AM -
Exactly. Honestly, religious peeps, we don’t need to force you to marry us at your churches or temples. We’re not interested. There are plenty of religious institutions that will accept gay couples that want to be married there. The rest of us just want to have our legal rights...and to eat our wedding cake too. I don’t know why it’s so difficult to give civil unions to everyone. I’m perfectly fine with the religious ceremony being called marriage...and I’m perfectly happy with just having a civil union, because I don’t want a religious ceremony. Neither of us is religious and we’re two different religions to boot. And unless Leigh-Ann wants to become a Jew, we’ll remain two different religions. I don’t much like any religion, but if I’m going to pick one, I’m rather fond of my own.
Sadly, I went to do a little Jewy Wikipedia research and went to a website that probably is the closest to my beliefs...and the founder, Rabbi Sherwin T. Wine, was just killed in a car accident in Morocco on Saturday. That’s sad. Anyway, he helped establish the Society of Humanistic Judaism and also the International Federation of Secular Humanistic Jews. Sounds like we lost one o’ the good guys. http://www.shj.org/wine.htm And I just found this on their website, “Be it resolved that we support the legal recognition of marriage and divorce between adults of the same sex, and that we affirm the value of marriage between any two committed adults with the sense of obligations, responsibilities, and consequences thereof.” That’s what I like to see, good common sense.
on 07/24 at 10:39 AM -
idiot of the day indeed. i am so disappointed.
laurie on 07/24 at 08:04 PM -
I much prefer to light the pipe, 6, 7, 8 or 13 times, then contemplate such things as why cartoon creators never let Wile E. catch the Roadrunner or why there’s a permanent press setting on an iron…
Oh yeah, the gay marriage issue and John Boy…
My first thought is that marriage is a dated concept to begin with. Just get into the 21st century and have contractual ‘dedication arrangements’. Adults that enter into the contract do so willingly, and their genders shouldn’t play a part. Much like every other contract. Yes, I know, contract is such a cold word.
But dedicated partner, at least to me, sounds better than husband or wife or. Lots of baggage there. But that’s what it’s really all about isn’t it? Governments should afford the same rights to contractual partners regardless of the sex of those partners?
DigitalGhost on 08/01 at 02:35 PM -
I’m good with “dedicated partner” - I have no desire for a wedding, although I wouldn’t mind the gifts. (maybe just one gift would be enough, the Jura-Capresso Impressa F9) I don’t mind my partnership wrapped up in a contract. It’s pretty simple with us; we’ve decided to be together and we’ll be staying together. Dedicated seems like a really good word for the relationship, and one that I hadn’t considered before. From now on, I think that’s what I’ll call it. Thanks for the term.
Until I’m legally approved by the state of Nevada, I shan’t be lighting any pipes. However, when/if that happens, I’d really like to contemplate Mario Kart Wii, while sitting on my couch, uh, next to my Vaporizer. I’m such the sophisticate.
on 08/03 at 03:11 AM -
Scratch the Jura Impressa F9, the Jura S9 is the Dedicated Partnership fantasy gift from my billionaire friend that I haven’t met yet - http://www.coffeegeek.com/proreviews/detailed/juracapressos9
You’re all invited over for drinks!
on 08/03 at 06:53 AM
