No thanks, I'll speak for myself

Thursday, June 08, 2006

No thanks, I'll speak for myself Current mood: pissed off Category: News and Politics Most of you that know me know that I'm a dyed-in-the-wool Republican. I said Republican, not fundamentalist Christian. The two are not the same. One is a political ideology and the other is fodder for late-night talk show hosts. However intertwined the two have become of late, I am still a right-wing leaning person. That being said, I also think for myself. I don't toe the party line on anything in my life. Below is a repost of a bulletin a friend posted. It set me off something fierce... Bob Dole - divorced the mother of his child, who had nursed him through the long recovery from his war wounds. Newt Gingrich - divorced his wife who was dying of cancer. Dick Armey - House Majority Leader - divorced Sen. Phil Gramm of Texas - divorced Gov. John Engler of Michigan - divorced Gov. Pete Wilson of California - divorced George Will - divorced Sen. Lauch Faircloth - divorced Rush Limbaugh - Rush and his current wife Marta have six marriages and four divorces between them. Rep. Bob Barr of Georgia - Barr, not yet 50 years old, has been married three times. Barr had the audacity to author and push the "Defense of Marriage Act." The current joke making the rounds on Capitol Hill is "Bob Barr...WHICH marriage are you defending?!? Sen. Alfonse D'Amato of New York - divorced Sen. John Warner of Virginia - divorced (once married to Liz Taylor.) Gov. George Allen of Virginia - divorced Ronald Reagan - divorced the mother of two of his children to marry Nancy Reagan, who bore him a daughter only 7 months after the marriage. Henry Kissinger - divorced Rep. Helen Chenoweth of Idaho - divorced Sen. John McCain of Arizonia - divorced Rep. John Kasich of Ohio - divorced Rep. Susan Molinari of New York - Republican National Convention Keynote Speaker - divorced So.......homosexuals are going to destroy the institution of marriage? Wait a minute, it seems the Christian Heterosexual Republicans are doing a fine job without anyone's help! If you agree, like I do, that hypocricy and bigotry must end, repost this. My response to this is below: Do as they say, not as they do. Don't you know that once one is elected to office the "rules" no longer apply??? Beloved LA Sen. Vitter spoke out on the gay marriage ban that was squashed yesterday. He mentioned something to the tune of how this was the most important issue facing people today. http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/06/06/same.sex.marriage/index.html I voted for this man. I think I'm ashamed to admit that now. If he thinks the most important issue that people are facing in America right now is gay marriage, then he obviously hasn't driven through New Orleans or the Gulf Coast recently. Ask the shrimper in Biloxi what the most important issue in America is. Ask the family in Chalmette living in a FEMA trailer what the most important issue in America is. Ask my in-laws whose house took on 9 feet of water FOR A FUCKING MONTH what the most important issue in America is. I don't think gay marriage is high on their lists. Sorry...don't mean to get off on a rant there. Politics has always been a hobby...I grew up in the middle of it. It just pisses me off when some schmuck decides to speak for everyone on a matter that has nothing to do with the price of tea in China. I am happily married. I was happy before I got married, but now my life is all the more better. Why would I deny someone else of this feeling all based on where he wants to stick his ho-ho-diddle? Where would the porn world be without lesbians? Sexuality is about 1% of who I am. It has no bearing on 99% of how I choose to live my life, be a husband to my wife, or raise my son. Long email short, Sen. Vitter can kiss my ass if he thinks this is the most important issue in America today. Get me some fucking floodwalls that weren't designed by the Three Stooges, THEN maybe I'll worry about gay marriage. Phew...I feel like Clark Griswold in Christmas Vacation... "Haleleuia! HOLY SHIT! Where's the Tylenol?" So who's with me on this? Send Sen. Vitter a note and remind him that this may be the most important issue in HIS life, but I've got better shit to worry about. Like how the fuck am I supposed to live now that my in-laws bought the house next to me. Everybody Loves Raymond??? Worse. We have a gate connecting our back yards. This is punishment for something. Maybe it's punishment for me being OK with gay marriage. One more thing...I know a shitload of married HETERO couples who shouldn't be married...let alone procreate. A loving home (not a house...a house is a place...a HOME is more than just a place) has NOTHING to do with playing hide the salami with another salami packing person. For the record, I'm only opposed to gay marriage in prison. Next issue?