Wallace's assertion, with Ms Parker's backing, that once gays have recognized commitments it'll break open the floodgates to all manner of God-awfulness, is a sorry attempt to class-up a still-classless act. It wasn't that long ago when people like this thought it was logical to make the leap from a homosexual relationship between two consenting adults to one person insisting themselves upon an animal and/or a child. When that didn’t work, they moved on to polygamy. But just in case, props to the poor vs rich approach:
Now, admittedly, I come from a different place than Mary Cheney. Sure, there are lesbians in the ghetto. But they generally don't "discover" their sexuality one post-pubescent day and break the news to their doting parents, amidst tears and hugs.
No, probably not. I'll tell you the price of tea in China if you can tell me how a Federal Marriage Amendment will make the lives of lesbians in the ghetto any better. Oh, wait, that wasn't your point. What was your point?
The gay movement is but a new chapter being written by liberal elitists who brokered the displacement of tradition and personal responsibility with disastrous welfare state policies. Blacks paid dearly and still are paying.
Liberal elitists took away tradition and personal responsibility? Powerful force, they are. You’d think with all that strength, they’d get to marry. One thing's for sure: they're not powerful enough to invade every institution of our society because if they were, well, just think of the impact:
Such changes would impact every institution of our society, and Ms Cheney's uninformed casualness about the scope and seriousness of this is frightening. We've already seen the impact in adoption. How about in our public school system, our military, our churches, or our corporations?
Man, Ms Parker, you sure scare easy. As a U.S. Marine wife of more than 20 years, I gotta say, I've not heard of America's gay finest causing more trouble than their heterosexual counterpart. Might be different in the Army. They all seem to have bigger things on their minds — like living through war. The few gay teachers my children have had through the DoD school system were never quarantined for cooties, nor were any of the gay military chaplains I've met. Maybe some day, Ms Parker, you’ll share the experiences you've had or present the evidence you’ve found to illustrate your point and support your contentions. I do hope you start with the line between homosexuality and welfare because I'm still unclear on that one.
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.