GAY MARRIAGE A PRESSING ISSUE?

This is a follow-up to my letter to the editor about Republicans using their tried and true political gambit of resurrecting hot-button, highly emotional bull-shit issues right before the November elections.

So last week, here is ole’ Bush with the war in Iraq going just dandy, American soldiers dieing left and right, Iran ready to make an A-Bomb, Afghanistan reverting back to the Taliban, new hurricane season upon us, Mexicans spilling through our borders and all sorts of horse shit going wrong with this country and he wants to address the most pressing issue facing this nation: Gay Marriage.

The really sad thing is that this tactic has worked in the past and probably will work again. ARE WE THAT FUCKING STUPID? The short answer is that many of us ARE! Many of us think that if gays get married in a legal fashion our society will come to an end or God will rain damnation on us all or some other superstitious nonsense.

The plain fact is that allowing gays to marry under the full protection of the law will NOT affect us one bit. Heterosexuals have totally screwed up the holy institution of marriage to the point where it is a joke and we are worried that the gays will, what – screw it up some more?

It is sad but when I attend a wedding ceremony these days and listen to all those beautiful words of everlasting love and what God has joined together let no man put asunder, I think – WHO ARE WE KIDDING – this marriage has a 50% chance of ending in divorce so why play this game and say all those things we do not really mean – till death do us part?

Gays will say the same things and not really mean them. Fifty percent or more will also end up in divorce or maybe not! We don’t have statistics on legal gay marriages so maybe they will show heterosexuals how to stay married?

I have been married for over 35 years and I do not feel threatened by legalized gay marriage. I say let them experience how easy it is to stay married; why should we have all the fun. Gays want the fun without the responsibility. Let us see what happens when they flit from one guy to another and then get sued for divorce and have to spend big bucks on lawyers and such – what joy!

I think Bush is making an issue where no issue exists. It is all politics and those in politics know that a large segment of this population can be influenced by non-issues like gay marriage – so why not do it.

I guess I just get really pissed off at how easily we as a people can be maneuvered by people that know how to maneuver people and looking at our school system and the products of that school system, this population will be maneuvered for a very long time.


Janusz