Are you lying or simply woefully ignorant?
I know how you love reading Coulter, so here she is expounding on the subject:
"1. The media love describing the Republican Party base as “anti-gay”- as opposed to “anti-gay marriage.” Let’s see who’s anti-gay…
a. Gays are the victims of hate crimes, or as Republicans call them, “crimes.” But in the gay enclave of West Hollywood, law and order prevail…cops are everywhere…the average “Parking Restrictions” sign is longer than ‘Gone With the Wind.’
b. Gays have high incomes- a study a few years ago says 60 percent higher than the median income in America.
c. In Islamic countries, gays are punished with death.
Consequently, the three most important issues for any sane gay person ought to be crime, taxes, and the war on Islamic fascists…Manifestly,
Republican policies are more pro-gay than Democrat policies and we don’t make a sport of outing political opponents who happen to be gay. The Democratic Party supports criminals and Islamic terrorists but has no sympathy for taxpayers…
2. Democrats love using the tax code to enact lots of special-interest goodies with great appeal to suburban soccer moms but of
absolutely no use to most gays, such as
a. Child tax credits
b. Tuition tax credits
c. Child-care credits
d. Education savings accounts
e. Student loans
f. The Family and Medical Leave Act
g. There is only one issue more important to Democrats than raising taxes, and that is keeping abortion legal at all stages of pregnancy. This is probably not a big issue for most gays.
3. After surrendering to Muslim terrorists and common criminals, aborting babies, and raising taxes,
the Left’s favorite pastime is outing gay Republicans. Liberals claim to love gays, but
their default comeback to a conservative they disagree with is to call him gay…Liberals insist on letting ay men leas Boy Scouts on overnight camping trips, but won’t let a gay man be a Republican.
4. The media love describing the Republican Party base as “anti-gay”- as opposed to “anti-gay marriage.”…The purpose of marriage is not to sanctify the intense feeling people have for each other. The purpose is to harness men’s predatory biological impulses into a paired heterosexual relationship directed toward raising children. Mankind has never concocted a better scheme for civilizing men than marriage. And while we’re on the subject, animalkind has never developed a better mechanism for destroying civilization than liberalism.
5. We need to get a rule book from the Democrats [on gays]:
a. Boy Scouts: As gay as you want to be
b. Priests: No gays!
c. Democratic politicians: Proud gay Americans.
d. Republican politicians: Presumed guilty.
e. White House press corps: No gays, unless they hate Bush.
f. Active-duty U.S. military: As gay as possible.
g. Men who date Liza Minnelli: Do I have to draw you a picture, Miss Thing?"
You don't really believe a lot of what you say? Right? That's why, instead of "links", you say things like, "One study shows".
Just a couple of things.
You know a "hate crime" is committed where the ONLY motivation for the crime is hate. If you have some rabid right wingers who hate Jews or Muslims go out looking for a "Jew or Muslim" to "take out", then that is a hate crime. The only reason for the crime was hate. Without the hate, no crime.
And what makes a "hate crime" worse? Those guys that tortured Mathew Shepard and left him on a fence said they only wanted to rob him. How many robberies end up with torture strung out on a fence? When people hate, they want their victim to feel agony, to suffer, to beg. It's not about robbery or theft, but about agony and suffering. Not really the same crime at all.
Even you have to admit, this part was hilarious. Thanks for bringing it up: In Islamic countries, gays are punished with death.
Texas GOP: Proudly Following...Uganda?
The Texas Republican Party has released its 2010 platform, and where did they turn for inspiration? To the Founding Fathers? To a strict reading of the Constitution? Actually, it looks to me like they turned to…Uganda.
The international community has raised a stink over Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality bill. But the Texas GOP has built some of its key features into its party platform, including a policy of imprisoning straight people who help gays get married.
Texas GOP: Proudly Following…Uganda? wakingupnow.com
Isn't that hilarious? Both Texans and Ugandans want to imprison people who help gays.
And where did the Ugandans get their "inspiration"? From right wing Republican Conservatives. Hilarious!
And I love this part. Thanks once again: Mankind has never concocted a better scheme for civilizing men than marriage.
Which would mean that since marriage civilizes MEN, what better method than civilizing them two at a time? You see? Once again, "hilarious".
Marriage was so good, that's why men married women a dozen at a time.
I love reading the "history of marriage".
Sparta, while encouraging sexual relationships between men, nevertheless insisted on their marrying and producing children. Single and childless men were treated with scorn.
However, while marriage was deemed important, it was usually treated as a practical matter without much romantic significance
Women were considered inferior to men and remained confined to the home.
"We have prostitutes for our pleasure, concubines for our health, and wives to bear us lawful offspring."
The status of women was low—they were regarded as the property of their fathers or husbands and could do nothing without their consent.
In Germanic law, for example, marriage was essentially a business deal between the bridegroom and the bride's father ("sale marriage"). The symbol of a successful "bride sale" was the ring (a form of down payment) which was given to the bride herself
The English Puritans in the 17th century even passed an Act of Parliament asserting "marriage to be no sacrament" and soon thereafter made marriage purely secular. It was no longer to be performed by a minister, but by a justice of the peace.
And very recently: The parents began to lose influence over the marital choices of their children, and romantic love became an important factor in marriage.
History of Marriage in Western Civilization
My favorites:
Founded by John Noyes in 1948, the Oneida colony in upstate New York cultivated a form of group marriage called "complex marriage" in which theoretically every woman was married to every man. (Wedding nights must have been a blast)
The members of the Mormon church were relentlessly persecuted, harassed, and ridiculed because of their polygamy. Finally, they were
forced to abandon the practice.
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And this is only "Western" marriage. Imagine the rest of the world. Could you imagine what history would be like if we allowed Republicans to rewrite it? They way they want to?
