IMHO
I had a little free time today, and I finally got around to reading that essay by Orson Scott Card that everyone's talking about. And you know what?
Fuck Orson Scott Card.
Why? Because his big
argument against homosexual marriage is that the foundation of society
is a man and a woman getting married and raising kids.
So, by implication, I'm rending society's fabric because I don't have any kids & don't plan on it?
Fuck you, Orson Scott Card.
Oh, but I suppose I'm forgiven
because my wife & I have dissimilar genitalia? Well, here's a
secret that'll shock no-one: we don't always use them in the prescribed
potentially-baby-making manner that Mr. Card seems to think is so
all-fired fucking important to keeping the nation functional. In fact,
checking the dictionary, it would appear that I'm heavily into sodomy(2),
so I guess my wife and I are just a couple filthy little
civilization-destroying sodomites, and we don't deserve to be
considered "married" since we're just as bad as all those mincing
little faggos, what with our malicious refusal to breed, and all.
Hell, without kids, we're not even a "family", according to the essay:
The ideologues have
demanded that we stop defining "families" as Dad, Mom, and the kids. Now
any grouping of people might be called a "family."
But this doesn't turn them into families, or even make rational people
believe they're families.
Fuck you, Orson Scott Card.
And the horse you rode in on.
And the little dog that followed your horse into town.
Especially that little dog.
Asshole.
AUTHOR'S
NOTE: I'm still undecided on the gay marriage issue, but I'm getting a
little sick of the anti-gay marriage crowd tossing out arguments that
imply my marriage is second-rate because of a lack of progeny.
posted by Harvey at 11:04:02 PM permalink HOME
|
|
