Do I read this correctly to say the only reason a girl child would choose to be homosexual is because she was poor and her father was absent? Break out that psychology degree, Ms Parker. I think you might be on to something! (I'm sorry, break out that marketing degree.) Could all those wife-beating, child-molesting, family-abandoning, child-support-ducking, unemployed layabouts be the reason for all these lesbians running around?
If heart disease doesn't kill every last no-good man, the irony of this breakthrough could certainly do it.
When Chris Wallace of Fox News sparred hard with Ms Cheney, he asserted,
Once we say that gay couples have a right to have their commitments recognized by the state, it becomes next to impossible to deny the same right to polygamists, polyamorists, (which I learned means group marriage) or even cohabiting relatives and friends.
Ms Cheney countered,
It's one thing that I don't take very seriously. You know, look: What we are talking about are relationships between two consenting adults. I think that is the debate that we need to have. That is the discussion that our country needs to have.
Upon hearing this, Ms Parker fell over some straight white Republican in her sprint to the keyboard. Presumably she fell. Maybe. Hell, I don't know, I wasn't there — in much the same way Ms Parker wasn't there for every page of Ms Cheney's book before waxing conservatively:
Now it is absolutely clear that legalization of gay marriage opens the door to every imaginable possibility. Once the authority for defining marriage moves from biblical tradition to politics, marriage will be defined by whatever might be deemed so by a court or that can be passed into law.
Yes, thank you for clearing that up. If it's not biblical, it must be political. It can't possibly be about equality or basic human rights.
As have many conservatives before her, Ms Parker uses one of the most overused and under-proven arguments of all time: (insert issue here) will open the door to "every imaginable possibility." Crikey. Someone call the fun police — the Blacks want to be free, er the Irish want jobs, er women want the vote, er the homosexuals are about to knock down the walls of depravity. (Everyone knows the porn industry wouldn’t exist if not for the gay dollar.)
Article comments
1 - Brian Sorrell
Nicely done Diana.
It sounds to me as if Ms. Parker suffers from a disastrous collision of "Slippery Slope" and "Begging the Question" -- among other popular fallacies. I'm suprised that she didn't hurt herself.
2 - SteveS
That's a good article. I recently blogged my own plight in regards to marriage and was surprised to find the article was picked up by the Washington Blade BlogWatch.
Basically my sister, who I love dearly and had no intention of making her an example :-), got married recently. Her son is going off to college and she has no plans to have any more children.
Should her husband die, she now gets social security benefits and the whole protection of assets, etc.
Here I am with my partner and a 3 year old daughter and if my partner dies, we're basically going to become homeless because we won't get squat back from something we are required by law to pay into.
Families, real families suffer by this discrimination. Nobody is harmed by the inclusion, but people ARE harmed by the exclusion.
The government's recognition of family shouldn't be based on biblical tradition. Our government shouldn't be based on the Bible at all. I should be free from being held to biblical standards.
3 - NR Davis
Very well said, Steve.
4 - gulickgurl
That was said better than I could ever put words together Diana. I don't understand why this has to be such and issue. Rights, it's about rights, and not the Bible.
Thank you!
5 - therese
...without the gay dollar. you're a kidder. =) good article, lady.
6 - Lily H.
Star, Star, Star...when EVER will she quit?
For all her supposed conservative stances,
she needs to examine her life a mite closer
than the gays or others "beneath her station"
so to speak.
For all her "traditional values", Star has
been divorced for some time from the preacher
husband she'd married (read her first book),
though nowhere on her website does that appear.
Also, her second daughter from said marriage
DIED at the age of 14 after hanging out with
friends at a teenage nightclub in her area
in Orange County, yes, the sane O.C. of TV
fame. Wonder where Mom was when her child was
out doing what Mom used to do when she was
a "welfare queen"? Star is a sham artist of
the highest order.
7 - F S Jones
And don't forget the multiple abortions she's had (at least 3 by her own count). But then it was the abortion provider's fault she had them, according to one biography.