“7/16/2010, 11:07am EST”
old-school-epiphany : glasscoffin: vegun: ianpaxson: capsuleloft
As this comic points out, the reason why people oppose gay marriage has little to do with “reason” at all. It’s about emotion — an inter-related swirl of envy, insecurity, fear, and a resulting hatred. This is cosmically hilarious, since the first thing that comes to mind for anti-gay bigots when they hear the word “gay” is a so-called “fag” — a limp-wristed, feminine man who isn’t really a “man” at all, who doesn’t do “manly” things like, I don’t know, destroying and killing things just to prove they can. All these “manly” people fearing the “limp-wristed fags” — the humor is all too apparent, and still it’s too sweet for my taste.
There is no good reason to oppose gay marriage. There is no “good-faith debate” here about public policy, where competing sides have comparably plausible or persuasive cases to make. The reality is that the people who oppose gay marriage — who refuse to get out of the way of others’ harmless happinesses and fair treatment under the law — have a psychological problem and should be classified as such.
—Dan
Never leave home without it.
