Opposed to Gay Marriage?

If you haven’t seen the video making the rounds, it’s a hoot, if unintentionally. Another set of Evangelical activists have put on a scary ad about how much gay marriage is harming the nation and every American. It uses the usual fatuous nonsense about the “biblical” ideal of a family. Biblical? Have the read that book they keep thumping?

Here are a few snippets from the good book:

Lamech said to his wives, "Adah and Zillah, listen to me; wives of Lamech, hear my words.

so he went to Ishmael and married Mahalath, the sister of Nebaioth and daughter of Ishmael son of Abraham, in addition to the wives he already had.

Give me my wives and children, for whom I have served you, and I will be on my way.

Then Jacob put his children and his wives on camels,

Esau took his wives from the women of Canaan:

the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives, and he brought their father a bad report about them.


And that’s just a quick glance through Genesis, never mind the rest! So we have one verse among ceremonial laws that can be read as opposing homosexuality, there are countless stories of men with multiple wives. David was alleged to have seven hundred!

Now would somebody please with a straight face tell me where Christians get cover for their anti-gay phobia from the Bible? A couple of centuries back, they used it to deny women their rights, not to mention slavery. The entire Southern Baptist Church, the largest protestant denomination was created for the sole purpose of keeping out them darkies!

The good news, as with most good news involving the scary right-wingers, is that they are fewer with every passing election cycle. They are a group based on old, white, southern, angry men. And they’re dying off.

Good riddance.

PS Apparently the same idiots who brought you "teabagging" without googling it first have now given us "2 million for marriage" which they choose to hiply call 2M4M. Ever read a personal ad section and seen M4M?

Priceless.