Good As You

Why are they working so damned hard to keep people from getting something that they don't want anyway, then?

I think of a Sufi proverb (that I learned from Margaret Atwood's novel "The Handmaid's Tale"): "In the desert, there is no sign saying, do not eat stones." In other words, people don't need to be restricted from things they don't want.

I'm guessing the "they don't even really want it anyway" nonsense is to make people who are waffly feel better. Except, of course, we do. We just aren't going to rush any more than heterosexuals do. Plus, all the special elections, legal maneuvering, etc. do wear on peoples' nerves.

So the Magpie says that the way that straight married couples are affected by marriage equality is... and I listened to this twice to make sure that I caught it correctly... straight married couples are affected by marriage equality BECAUSE they will be considered to be bigots if they are married to opposite sex partners. What a heaping, steaming load of shit!

I'm sorry but I can only listen to this woman for so long. I'm glad Ethan (the guest host for Ken) saw right through her tricks. I hope the rest of Maine sees through their tired old tricks as well. Their reasons against gay marriage are the same old stories.

If racism "was" bad, then why can't Maggie's organization consider non-Caucasian actors for its TV commercial?

It appears that the NOM people believe the good people of Maine will not be able to hear their wonderful message if it is voiced by a person of color.

Yeah, I get it that minorities and mixed-race folks comprise only 4-5% of Maine's population. Fine. And, I'm not in the entertainment industry, so maybe blatantly race-based casting calls are the norm.

But, Maggie insists that her foundation is fairness. She bristles at having her anti-gay bias likened to race-based biases. She does everything she can to project a sense of being calm, thoughtful, and principled, a Yale grad who collaborates with religious leaders on keeping kids safe.

If only white folks are eligible to represent Maggie's point of view to the people of Maine, I think she's got a problem.

BUT BUT BUT ...does this mean that their latest STORM Ad wont get made?
Here Bill in Portland has the script.

http://tinyurl.com/ym4gp4

Those blacks, they don't WANT integration. They don't REALLY want to do what us white people want to. After all, the coming together of white people is special, it keeps the ideal we have instituted and held to dear pure and our children secure.

I could have wrung her neck saying that gay people don't really want to get married! How does she DARE?!
And THEN later on she actually says that white people keeping blacks from marrying whites was a means to keep them oppressed.

And isn't that EXACTLY what keeping gay people from marrying is?! The way she spins this whole shebang is just stupendously vicious and defamatory.

Well, Maggie has worked it out somehow that marriage is good, good for individual happiness, health and wealth.
But somehow gay people can't appreciate the same benefits, nor would they actually have that same result.

How the fu*k does she talk out of both sides of her bloated face like that?

Could she finally be on the verge of exploding from the hot gas and crap she's excreting?

Regan DuCasse wrote, "Maggie has worked it out somehow that marriage is good, good for individual happiness, health and wealth."

Yeah, and fighting marriage for us is good for HER wealth.

Stand For Marriage Maine
374 Route 1, Yarmouth, ME 04096
(207) 846-9052

Being considered a bigot is part of living in a free society. All of us are bigoted in some way, and there's someone out there who would be happy to tell us so while jabbing a finger at us. So fucking what?

Justice has never been about what is "best for everyone" or keeping people comfortable. Justice is about fairness for INDIVIDUALS, with no regard for popular opinion or approval. Thus do statues of Justice show her as blindfolded, because she has no interest in appeasing the masses.

Yea Yeek, we've spoken at length about Maggie's fears about being branded a bigot. She never raises the question of WHY those claims might come about:

http://www.goodasyou.org/good_as_you/2009/02/audio-yes-mags-your-views-surely-will-fall-out-of-favor-now-ask-yourself-why.html

Let's all get licenses to carry guns and show up at these hate-fest events with loaded weapons. By the way, the Washington Post ombudsman had to apologize for a fluff piece last week about this hate-mongering asshole Brian Brown and his Stepford Wife.