Washington Gay Rights Bill

I have been endeavoring, not always successfully, to cut down on my swearing lately. I have formed the opinion that it is disrespectful to those who don’t want to hear it. It is in line with my feelings on exhibitionism (those who wish to see should be able to, those who do not wish to should not have to). It kind of goes along with what Daniel Webster said about personal rights… “Your right to swing your fist ends at the tip of my nose.” This includes cutting down on swearing when I’m alone and even in my thoughts. If I allow myself to swear alone or swear in my thoughts (which is the hardest habit to break) then it’ll be more difficult not to swear in public.

Having said that…

Bearing that in mind…

Washington state recently passed “gay rights” legislation (I prefer to think of it as “human rights”) that allows gay couples more or less all of the advantages of marriage, without the word or the document. Just another proof to my point that we need to separate the legal concept of marriage, which is primarily about property from the religious concept which is primarily about reproduction. Of course, as soon as the bill was passed, there were groups of religious fanatics lined up to scream about it. Which prompts me to politely ask, with all due respect,

WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU FUCKING MORONS?! What the hell are you trying to accomplish? Is your hope that if you squeeze these people tight enough, they’ll eventually go back into their uncomfortable, tiny little closet and quit requiring you to THINK?

Look, I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again and I’ll keep on saying it until it sinks into YOUR THICK FUCKING SKULLS! Marriage in the time of Christ is not marriage as it is known today. Most notably, in the time of Christ, the religious authority WAS the civil authority. There was no separation of church and state. And if you don’t LIKE the separation of church and state, then move to Saudi Arabia.

So, in the time of Christ when a man (typically in his twenties) wanted a bride, he would go to a neighboring village and pay the “bride price” (couple goats and mule or whatever), basically BUYING the teenaged girl of his choice. Once he got her, it was their responsibility to make as many children as possible. If she displeased him, or if SHE couldn’t have kids (couldn’t be his fault – the white stuff was still coming out of him) then he would just go buy a SECOND bride. Or a third. Or a fourth. Yes, polygamy was alive and well in the time of Christ regardless of what the moronic revisionists would have you believe. Oh, and divorce? Well, Jesus said that a man could divorce a woman in a case of “fornication”. A woman could divorce a man in a case of… er… she couldn’t, actually. But bear in mind that Christian laws were not in place in the time of Christ – Mosiac laws were. And, according to the laws of Moses, a man could divorce a woman for pretty much any damned thing that he wanted. She could only divorce him if… er… well, she couldn’t.

Today, a couple meets, dates, becomes lovers (or not), gets legally married (or not), has kids (or not) and maybe gets a divorce.

Or is it about reproduction? Is that what you whiners are on about? Well, then, you’d better start lobbying against ME being able to get re-married… I had a vasectomy shortly after my divorce.

Oh, which reminds me – why the hell aren’t you idiots working harder to keep married breeders together? More than HALF of the hetero marriages in this country end in divorce. Know how many gay marriages have so far? ONE! You believe in the sanctity of marriage? Then stop drooling over that idiotic TV show “Cheaters” and start becoming active in keeping heteros together. I’ll believe that you have something to say about who gets married once you prove that you can do it without FUCKING IT UP!

The single, un-Christian idea that this all comes down to is that these people and groups are trying to control the lives of others. Jesus spoke very harshly about this, people. Like saying that a tomb should not be beautiful on the outside while inside it’s all decaying corpses? Or washing the OUTSIDE of a bowl while leaving muck and crap on the inside? Or how about the simple idea of tending to the BEAM (very big thing) in your eye before trying to remove the MOTE (very small thing) from your neighbor’s eye.

Or, in a way that maybe even you rich, greedy, suburbanite “Christians” can understand – mow your lawn before you tell me to mow mine, okay stupid?

All right. So I start trying to curtail my swearing again as of… NOW!

Peace.

Randal