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[theweaselking]

Surely, locusts are at hand. Surely, a rain of fire and death shall smite both countries from above, any minute now. Go outside right now and watch. You should be able to see at least some of Canada go down. It should be quite the spectacle, all bloodshed and screaming and shards of exploded hockey sticks flying through the air like toothpicks. Bring an umbrella.

Already, Spanish and Canadian religious zealots and conservative hatemongers are wringing their hands and scowling heavily and heading for the gay-free bomb shelters, well stocked as they are with Bibles and potatoes and canned corn and secret stashes of German fetish porn and Spanish tapas and Canadian bacon and joylessness.

Already, the vast majority of Canadian and Spanish children are crying, trembling, sensing something is amiss, aware that the precious balance has been altered, their potential fates as imminent homophobes and conservative ideologues being thrown into question. I mean, what will they become? Who will teach them to hate gays and loathe anyone who is different and where will they learn to be all sexually uptight and sanctimonious and misguided? Oh, right. America.

This, after all, is the biggest question of all, the one thrown up like a mantra every time a large cultural question of sex and gender pops up: Who -- pray, who -- will save the children?

Children are going to be horribly affected by legal gay marriage, somehow. This is what the ideologues wail. Children are going to be psychologically damaged and morally mauled and sexually preyed upon by those deviant homos with their crazy beliefs and bizarre sexual practices and their whips and chains and weird paraphernalia and gay agitprop literature and creepy homosexual hand puppets.

This is what they sincerely believe, even though no one, not any Canadian, Spaniard or church leader, nor any homophobic U.S. senator, can exactly say how kids will be harmed. Just, of course, that they will.

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[unnamed525.livejournal.com]

Oh, they say how they will be harmed. They will be harmed by living in a society that doesn't see homosexuality as deviant and something to be shunned, but says that it's just as acceptable a sexual orientation as heterosexuality ... then they blame it on "moral relativism", because, according to these ignorant fucktards, if you don't worship their god, then you can't be a moral realist.

[rimrunner.livejournal.com]

I think they might even find moral realism threatening...

[unnamed525.livejournal.com]

Oh, they'd find it threatening if it wasn't Divine Command Theory, which is what the moral theory of the evangelical fundamentalists really boils down to. It's all right there in the story of Abraham and Isaac ... where IHVH tells Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac and Abraham starts to do so, but IHVH tells him to stop just before he brings the axe down; IHVH doesn't give Abraham shit for being willing to go through with it. On the contrary, Abraham is praised for following IHVH's command.
Moral of the story: Whatever IHVH tells you to do is right, even if it's inconsistent with what IHVH told you to do not 5 minutes ago.

[rimrunner.livejournal.com]

*snerk*

I feel compelled to quote from Yeats' "Second Coming". Of course he was talking about things that could and do cause measurable harm to children along with everyone else, such as, for instance, being in Europe during World War I.

(On another note, I got a copy of the book complete with personalized autograph. It was $14.95 if memory serves, I imagine mailing it will cost a few dollars.)

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

*AWESOME*.

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