President Bush says that Mary Cheney will make a “fine mom.” He also believes that “every child that comes into this world deserves love and he believes that Mary Cheney’s child will in fact have loving parents,” according to Tony Snow.
But for some reason he doesn’t think they should be allowed to get married.
Look. Gay families already exist. De facto gay marriages already exist, except that they don’t get governmental recognition. They will exist even if they never get governmental recognition. They will exist even if the Constitution, God forbid, is someday amended to ban governmental recognition of them. There is no governmental policy that will make gay couples go away. There is no governmental policy that will make gay people go away.
“We don’t want to condone this sort of behavior,” some people say.
But this behavior – um, this orientation – is going to exist no matter what the government does or doesn’t do.
Some anti-gay people are still under the illusion that homosexuality is somehow “chosen” and is somehow going to disappear, if only we create a sufficiently discouraging atmosphere.
But even if the government and the culture become totally oppressive of homosexuality, we’re still not going to go away. Homosexuals have always been born and they always will. Unless a gene is found and potential parents start engaging in gene therapy, we are always going to be here.
And you know what else?
We’re never going to be more than about 4 or 5 percent of the population.
So what are you so worried about? Humanity will continue to be fruitful and multiply.
Think of gays as the cooling rods in the nuclear reactor of the human overpopulation machine.
And heck, some of us are even being fruitful ourselves.
Bush’s comments remind me of when Dan Quayle, staunchly anti-choice as he was, said that he would support his daughter’s decision if she got pregnant and wanted to have an abortion. It’s not quite analogous, but it’s another case where a general principle smacks into a real live person.
President Bush: if Mary Cheney will make a “fine mom,” and if “Mary Cheney’s child will in fact have loving parents” – why shouldn’t that child be allowed to have married parents, too?
What up, Slut? Your comments lead me to a point I have on marriages. The government just needs to stay OUT of it. Marriage is something that exists between two loving people and may even be a covenant in a particular belief system of the people in question. So, let two people join in marriage within their religious beliefs or whatever belief they choose with whomever they choose, and leave the government out of it. Government legislation of marriage is simply a means of legislating morals.