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I normally don’t do political posts…or do them well, if I do. I tend to get angry about something, make a comment, and then want to be done with it. I like that I can have my opinion, in my own space, and I don’t care if someone agrees with it or not. It’s my snapshot in time, and then I tend to move on to other things, because I can rarely focus on one thing for too long…

Well, today is a day when my political anger has overflowed…

Maybe it’s the Democratic primaries, but it’s most likely the recent Massachusetts SJC ruling on gay marriages: I really hate politicians. Oh, yeah, and I hate most people, too.

What does allowing gays to marry have to do with any of you, unless you are gay? Nothing!! Stop talking about the sanctity of the institution of marriage. Sanctity implies “holiness” and “godliness,” yet not all marriages are religious in nature or origin.

The ruling applies only to civil marriage, an institution created and regulated by the state. The ruling does not require churches or other religious organizations to perform same-sex weddings.

Freedom of Religion is great. If a church doesn’t want to marry someone they don’t have to. But, considering the civil marriage is an institution created by the state, and there should be a separation of church and state, let anyone wanting to get married get married!

Let’s face it, if religion was a requirement for marriage, if the state never endorsed the institution, there would be less marriages. If I had to vow my belief in a god to get married I would be happily involved (or wahtever the term would be then) as opposed to happily married. I don’t think that there should be a big fear of gays approaching churches to marry them. If a church is outspoken on their feelings on gay marriage, or a homosexual lifestyle, it would be like walking into the lion’s den with a steak around your neck, or like asking the bully to help you with your homework.

One of the many things to frustrate me today is this op-ed piece.

How do you deal with the exigencies of state politics without irreparably harming your national prospects?

Who the fuck wants you at the national level of politics if you can’t manage to be true to the local constituency? Oh, riiight…lots of people. Great. Fanfuckingtastic.

Although the Massachusetts electorate is split on gay marriage, embracing the idea could prove a decided detriment to a successful national candidacy.

Now, we must not upset the delicate voting public. Hey, let’s face it…it doesn’t matter who says what about which issue. We don’t even get 50% of the eligible voters to vote, and if they do it’s possibly due to a speech that promises action on some issue; a promise that was tailored to the audience at hand.

The suspicion here is that, if it weren’t for national politics, Kerry would support full marriage rights for gays. Certainly one of the past justifications he has offered for his opposition — marriage is for procreation — sounded odd coming from man whose second marriage holds neither prospect nor intent of children.

If marriage was required for procreation, then teenaged pregnancy would be non-existant — last time I checked, most teens aren’t allowed to get married at the ages that they most likely get pregnant. Oh, yeah, and the continuity of the species would have failed at the onset…I truly doubt that Homo Habilis, Homo Erectus, or early Homo Sapiens stopped themselves from the primal urges that drive procreation to wait for a church or collective state to be created to sanction the act.

Kerry says GOP may target him on ‘wedge issue’

John F. Kerry vowed yesterday to fight back against Republicans seeking to tie him to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decision allowing same-sex couples to marry, and did not rule out supporting a state constitutional amendment that would ban gay marriage.

Dude! Reach down into your pants, see if you actually have a set and grab it for a change!

Kerry told reporters querying him on the gay marriage issue after a Portland rally that if Republicans “want to turn this into some wedge sort of issue and distort my position, I will fight back very clearly.”

“I support equal rights, the right of people to have civil unions, to have partner rights. I do not support marriage” for gays and lesbians, he said.

I hope you don’t think I’m distorting anything here. Well, actually, two negatives make a positive, right? If I were to distort Kerry’s quote it might actually make sense! It seems that Mr. Heinz supports equal rights, but only the rights that he wants to. Good thing the topic isn’t slavery: I support equal rights, the right of blacks to drink water. I do not support same fountains for blacks and whites.

Oh…and Rep. Dick Gephardt has decided to endorse Kerry. I wonder how his gay daughter feels about it all? Dick might have “embraced her newfound identity” but I bet that even he wouldn’t let his own daughter get married!!!

Legislator feels the heat on gay marriage
Poor Marian Walsh.

SHE IS passionately prolife. That is not enough for the Roman Catholic Church, which wants her to be passionately against something else: gay marriage.

Didn’t she know that the Catholics will just keep pushing and pushing?

Where was the Catholic Church, asks Walsh, when she took stands for social justice and against corporate welfare? “There was never this kind of outreach to me on the death penalty, even on abortion.” Indeed, the first time she tried to get Cardinal Bernard Law to testify against the death penalty at a legislative hearing, she was told he did not want to ruffle prominent Catholics who support it.

Walsh, 49, reflects a classic Boston Irish Catholic upbringing. She grew up in West Roxbury and attended Ursuline Academy and Newton College of the Sacred Heart. She was first elected to the Legislature in 1989. Being a prolife woman Democrat is not easy in Massachusetts; liberal advocates who scorned her and would not support her for leadership positions because of her opposition to abortion are courting her support on gay marriage.

Hrmmm…very interesting.

How about this: let’s keep religion out of politics! What a novel concept! I wish there were more people in the state (I would go so far as to say the country, but come now, that’s just crazy talk!) had the balls to tell politicians:
Hey! Every time you talk to the Archdiocese of Boston and its new Archbishop Sean P. O’Malley you lose my vote!

I always thought that freedom from religious persecution guaranteed me the right to not have other’s religious view vomited all over me.

I actually heard the president of some Catholic organization this morning on the news call homosexuality a disease of the mind. Open a fucking book other than the Bible, junior! I bet you think that women should be barefoot and pregnant, and should stay at home, and that I’m going to hell. Well, how’s this for your little nice and neat world? I don’t believe in hell, so what are you going to do now!? Oh, is that all you have? Yeah, hellfire? Not scared. Eternal salvation? Ummm…yeah, good luck with that one, too.

Instead of focusing on this pointless battle, why not fight sick fuckheads like this guy, or this fucking waste of oxygen, or this winner? And, I’m sooooo glad that we have fine, upstanding citizens like this piece of shit responsible for some security task for this country!

I bet that none of those pathetic excuses for humans are the why they are because of gay marriages. Focus on the real issues, folks!

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