Margaret and Helen

Ignorance is bliss… unless we are talking about someone else’s ignorance.  And in this case we are.  I will be the first to admit that my talking about gay marriage – or gay anything – is like Sarah Palin musing on the global ramifications of power struggles in the Middle East.  It will most likely be a Katie Couric moment but here we go…

If marriage is an institution supported by this country then it must be made available to all of its citizens according to the law.  If however, it is strictly a religious institution then a constitutional amendment determining who can and cannot have access to it is sort of missing the point.  Religious freedom except for people who are not religious is a mutually exclusive concept.  And if we keep going down this path the concept of a Christ-like Christian will become an oxymoron.  And speaking of moron…

I have had it with The View and I blame Barbara Walters.  First she allows Elisabeth to be the voice of fear and war and then magically on Wednesday after the election all of it is immediately forgotten and forgiven. It is painfully obvious that Elisabeth’s opinions are not her own but rather the talking points being given to her to fit the part.  OK.  I don’t like it but I can excuse it because Elisabeth comes by her hate honestly.  She knows exactly what she is doing and in her world being young, blonde and married to a football star gives her permission to be a bitch.  What does she care?  Her children will be able to buy their way out of any problem.  By the way, Harold says she’s not married to the good football player… his brother is the good one.  I wouldn’t know.  I just know the football player who married Elisabeth went for a Hail Mary pass and ended up with just a pass to hell.

But now we’ve got that Cherry, Cheryl, Seymour… I really don’t care what her name is. Yesterday she admitted that while she does have an issue with gay marriage for spiritual reasons, she really wasn’t sure about all the facts and hadn’t really read much about it.  Oh, but the idiot did mention that she was still looking for the perfect gravy boat for Ellen and Portia.  OK.  You know what?  When you are given a national platform on a TV show called The View, being too lazy to do some research isn’t an acceptable excuse.   And when people’s rights are being taken away, your attempt at humor is insulting.  I’m sure Ellen found the gravy boat comment comforting.  Try opening a newspaper between reruns of Friends you lazy good for nothing because the show you are a part of is supposedly about well-informed, intelligent women discussing current issues.  Little Cheryl having a vagina suggests that one out of three is qualification enough.  She is making women everywhere look bad and Barbara Walters should have a little more respect for her audience than to allow this to go on any longer.

I haven’t had a whole lot to say about this issue because to be quite honest, I come from a generation that really never talked about it. But then Margaret’s nephew reminded me that lots of people are reading this blog so I need to educate myself.

It seems to me that the loudest Christians have suddenly become the most un-Christ-like people.  And my sincere apologies to those good-hearted Christians who have found themselves caught in the crosshairs.  You know, Harold is a Catholic.  How would all of you feel about a constitutional amendment banning meat on Fridays?  How about banning dancing because Baptist seem to have two left feet?  And how about birth control?  A lot of religions don’t allow it.  I wonder how little Cherry from The View would feel about a constitutional amendment banning that? 

If you want to protect Holy Wedlock, by all means padlock the church door whenever guys who love Judy Garland come-a-knocking.  But if you want to protect marriage push for a constitutional amendment to ban divorce.

But let’s step away from the church and state argument for a second.  I posted yesterday that love is about the heart not the body.  Trust me, if it was about the body a lot of us would be in a world of trouble.  You can’t legislate love between two consenting adults.  You just can’t no matter how hard you try.  If you want to save marriage, marry someone you love.   And that’s all I have to say about that.

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