A group of Hispanic religious leaders is planning an anti-gay marriage rally on Sunday outside the Manhattan office of Gov. David Paterson.
...I assume they're doing it on Sunday so they can go directly from church and/or won't have to miss work, but I'm pretty sure a) Paterson won't be there and b) the real fight is in the Assembly.
Me, I'm sick of the whole damn thing. I'd almost say give it to 'em, if I thought it would shut the !$&! bigot gay activists up, but they don't actually want to be married* (other than to mooch health and retirement benefits, which they could accomplish with a civil union, and to join the privileged class of "married people" without having to go through the hassle of convincing your beard it's a good idea). They just want to force everyone to admire and approve of them, probably because their parents don't, and when that doesn't fill the holes in their souls they'll be back throwing hate-filled tantrums for some new "right" we haven't imagined. Why settle for "equality under the law" when you can get money and privilege?
"Equality under the law" is for chumps like myself.
Tangent: Hispanic population of NYC by origin (pdf). I was pretty sure Puerto Ricans were the largest group, and now I know. Dominicans are a strong second. Although wouldn't it be nice if it didn't matter?
* I'm not sure I believe the "it will destroy marriage" argument, since civil marriage has already been destroyed by no-fault divorce and government subsidy of illegitimacy (more fatherless babies = more money, more programs, more attention...). But I agree with the "Canada and the EU ended up getting polygamy based on gay marriage, and polygamy is a feature of totalitarian Third World hellholes" argument, and the "even ancient Greece, where homosexuality was a celebrated part of public life and heterosexual sex was a household chore, held that marriage was between a man and a woman" arguments, and I especially like the "government can't force churches to do things that go against their beliefs" argument. I realize the government won't get out of marriage altogether and allow me equal status under the law, so avoiding Third World societies with state-mandated churches is the next best thing.
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I especially like the "government can't force churches to do things that go against their beliefs" argument. But seeing as Obama (and liberals in general) have little regard for the rule of law, preferring instead "empathy" and "feelings" to genuine equality, the government will force churches to do things against their beliefs.
In fact, in most cases where gays are involved and Christians/conservatives are the defendants, the Christians lose.
Oh yeah. One of those "book cover not on hand" images up in my Goodreads log is Tyranny of Nice, Kathy Shaidle's book about how Canada crushed the whole concept of religious freedom to placate the gay and Islamic lobbies.
The book includes some suras from the Koran that are pretty-much word-for-word the passage from Deuteronomy that got one pastor sentenced to "never practice your faith in public again" after he took out an ad in a paper with the verses.
What I don't understand is why people who want to live in Canada don't just move there instead of turning the U.S. into it.
What I don't understand is why people who want to live in Canada don't just move there instead of turning the U.S. into it.Two words: shared misery.
Those who are perpetually dissatisfied with their lives must find ways to bring the rest of us down with them.
That's so true.
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