In his Sunday opinion piece, "The Culture Warriors Get Laid Off," New York Times drama critic-cum-op-ed scribe Frank Rich argues that "Americans have less patience for the intrusive and divisive moral scolds who thrived during the bubble years." Neat! If only it were true. We will give Rich this: Heteronormative musing never sounded so friendly.
Pegging his column on the relatively nonexistent conservative response to Obama's reversal of George W. Bush's stem-cell policy, a move that in 2006 would have drawn the ire of dozens of right-wing zealots, Rich reaches a simple conclusion: "culture wars are a luxury the country — the G.O.P. included — can no longer afford." In other words, the recession is making everyone civil. Of course when conclusions are this tidy, they're rarely right.
If Frank Rich is correct, how to explain the overwhelming support for banning gay marriage in the states of Arizona, California and Florida on Election Day last year? The economy was in deep trouble by early November, and yet voters still gathered en masse to strike down civil rights for millions of their fellow citizens. In fact, in Florida, almost two thirds of the constituency supported the ban. If the culture wars are dead, 62 percent of Florida's voters don't know it. Nor do all the gays married in California before the ban who once again are acutely aware of their "other" status.
We'll be the first to admit that this country's economy is currently a devastating failure that – perhaps thankfully – is forcing citizens to huddle together like chilly passengers on the deck of a sinking ship. But can we please agree to stop attributing to the recession everything from bad service at the Cheesecake Factory to the decline in conservative whining. It's starting to make everyone sound like simplistic clowns afraid of thoughtful problem-solving.
Just because you wish bloviating idiots like Rush Limbaugh would go away forever doesn't mean they will. And just because you think you're championing liberalism with your hopeful op-ed column doesn't mean you're not actually slapping millions of alienated gays across the face.
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Like it or not, the basic problem remains that (most) heterosexuals still view what gays do as disgusting. They are willing to live and let live these days, but when voting for the sanctification of the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Barney Frank, they say, "that's one step I'm just not ready to approve".
Give it another ten years. Hetros may give Barney a second look as he ages with grace. I personally would love to have the Franks next door. I bet he always has beer.
as a viciously ugly morbidly obese gay male with no chance in hell of another person ever touching me with a ten foot pole i dont give a damn about gay rights cause no other gay person will have anything to do with me
@saythatscool: show this picture to any guy you fancy:
it will turn any straight guy gay and increase your attractiveness in comparison.
here it is:
never mind.
Are you left handed or right handed? One will have to do.
@fanofgrendel:
most left handed men are gay i'm left handed
are you gay? are you a gay chubby chaser?
if you are a gay chubby chaser you can find me under my profile name which is saythatscool on gawker.com
would love to chat with you there
@saythatscool: you go back to Gawker, I'm sure a nice gay chubby chaser will show up one day. I'm dining from a different menu.
@fanofgrendel:
I've kind of taken a shining to you though. You've been so nice to me the past couple of days.
I'm going to hack Jossip's website so I can get your email address and then I'm going to hack the computer system for your internet provider so I can get your home address so we can meet in person.
That should only take about a half hour so I should be able to reach you by car or plane no matter what part of the country you are in by tomorrow morning. I'm good at picking locks too!
@fanofgrendel:
Are you still out there? This is the first time I feel like I've really connected with another man in a long time and I am not going to let this opportunity slip me by.
@saythatscool/BookishLookish: What is UP with you? We all know you are both Bookish and saythatscool. You mentioned you would be toodling back over to Gawker. Don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out. DAMN.
you people are sick having little kids wear suck filth…..there is a specail place in hell for all of you….