Friday, July 21, 2006

• Big Ass Rant

  Gay rights: Let me just say that I think it is crazy that the government is defining marriage. Marriage is, at its core, a religious ceremony. Our government is formed on several precepts, one of which being a separation of church and state. So, here’s the important part, if marriage is a religious ceremony then the government should back the fuck off. Who the hell cares if Linda and Sue want to spend the rest of their lives living together in peace and harmony, in their own home, which they are going to do if you like it or not, and if they want to reap the joys of health care and death benefits. Just what kind of heartless bastard do you have to be that you want to deprive these people the same benefits that rapists and murderers are entitled to? They aren’t hurting you, you don’t have to be a part of their lives and they are not eroding “American values”. We will not be more likely to be plunged into the pits of despair and depravity because these people are choosing who they want to live with and love.  I don’t dictate who you can have relationships with.

   

  And speaking of “American Values”. I would love it if people would not try to put thoughts and feelings into the minds and mouths of people that have been dead for several hundred years. Yes, our founding fathers were a bunch of middle ages Christian men. But that doesn’t mean that we have to think and act the same way that they did when they founded this country. Which, if we all remember our history books, was founded on the idea of equal rights for everyone, heedless of race, gender, color, creed, religion and a host of other traits. While some people were not necessarily afforded the same rights in the beginning, as we have become a more progressive, forward thinking nation we have seen the reasoning behind abolishing slavery and equal rights for women. So when people just up and throw their Christian, American values in my face as a reason to discriminate against someone based on their religion or sexual orientation I just want to scream. Next thing you know we will have Christian religious zealots declaring Crusades against people rather then Muslim radicals declaring Jihad. Its nuts. America is a melting pot of race and religion. If you don’t like it, leave. I am tired of listening day in and day out to the diatribe of the religious right wing conservative. Open your eyes shut your mouth and you might see some of god’s love washing over the world. How you can say that you are godly, then treat people terribly because they don’t think the same way you do, doesn’t seem very godly to me. As a matter of fact we call that persecution, and it’s what the Romans did to Jesus, Remember Jesus? Tolerant Jesus, who didn’t persecute anyone but taught them with love and devotion and never forced his view point on anyone, even while knowing that he was going to be sacrificed for the sins of all? Yeah, that Jesus.

   

  All these people want to jump up and down and lose their minds over religious values, and the rights of the public, and how we have to save people from them selves. Damn it, we don’t need a fucking nation wide intervention. If people would be more tolerant of the non radical behavior of those surrounding them, and actually pay attention to what another person is saying then maybe, just maybe, the select, sick few that are looking for attention will get it before they have to do something really terrible to get your attention. The only time we do pay attention to them is after they have done something sick. When that happens please, don’t blame it on something really inane like video game violence, or music. Let’s put the blame where it belongs. When you do something bad, it’s your fault. Your parents raised you the best that they knew how. For better or worse. Once you are an adult it is your life to live. Take responsibility for the choices that you make. If you fuck up you should have to pay the consequences. And pardon me for being heartless, but if you are crazy and you kill people, you should still suffer the death penalty. It’s not like you are suddenly going to get better or something. Given the choice between life in an asylum and death, well really they are the same thing, aren’t they? Why does being nuts when you do something really terrible change the fact that you did something really terrible? I think that lots of people go nuts as a side effect to the terrible action. It shouldn’t dismiss it, or lessen the severity of the crime or the punishment. If it was an offense like, don’t wear red on Tuesday, and you didn’t know there was a rule about red on Tuesday then sure, let it slide. But maiming, killing or mutilating should not be a matter of I didn’t know it wasn’t ok. Even crazy people defend themselves if someone tries to kill them. So there is some sort of basic human instinct to preserve life, and there is one that says that it isn’t ok to take one.

   

  Alright Rant over for now. I’ll have something lighter for next time.  

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