I've just posted the second half of the image update (on my predicted schedule for a change) with about 2,400 new images (4,000 new pictures this week thanks in part to all the BMEfest photos). Thanks to everyone who helped out, and thank you to Dita (and her supercute baby Chiya) for being the cover models.
So as you know, today the US senate narrowly defeated (by ten/twelve votes) the attempt by Bush (also supported by about 40% of Americans in the polls) to advance a new amendment to the Constitution specifically banning gay marriage. However, Republicans promise that the fight to ban the “unamerican” practise of gay marriage is far from over. Republican Senator Cornyn (likely driven by a lifetime of homophobic jokes due to his name) said,
"The assault on traditional marriage is not going away, and I hope that Congress will act to protect the most fundamental building block of our society. This is a national problem, and it requires a national response. Marriage is worth it; marriage is important enough to warrant the full legal protection of our laws."
There are two things I don't get about this whole “debate”. First of all, why in the world would anyone care who someone else marries? It makes no difference to me if someone else gets married to someone that's the same gender. Hell, if I'm butting my nose into other people's bedrooms, I'd probably rather see two good looking gay dudes than some typically unattractive out-of-shape hetrosexual. But the point is that it's none of my business… I think Pierre Trudeau (former Canadian PM) put it best when he said of government laws on homosexuality, “the State has no place in the bedrooms of the Nation.”
Admittedly his ex-wife was getting brown showers from Mick Jagger at the time, but still, I just don't get why anyone could care less what strangers decide to do with their social lives. Why is any of this even an issue? They say it could lead to someone marrying their dog. Hell, who cares about that? If someone wants to marry their dog it's fine by me too as long as I don't have to marry a dog as well.
The second reason that I think it's extremely weird that Bush is pushing for an anti-gay amendment to the Constitution is that it really makes Americans look like a bunch of backwards closed-minded hicks to the rest of the world. Due to the actions of the Bush Cabal, Americans are already the most universally hated people and country on the planet, so why also try and make them the laughing stock of the world? I believe Americans are good people, but if they keep letting their government betray them like this, the odds of a happy ending to their story will eventually dwindle to zero.
As a point of trivia, John Kerry has also said he'll block any attempts to legalize gay marriage. Yeah, he supports some wishy-washy “civil unions” crap. Bullshit. You can't give one group special rights because they decide to stick their cock into a different hole. Either have marriage for everyone who wants it, or for no one. Admittedly Kerry is opposed to the Constitutional ammendment, preferring instead to send all the gays to Hawaii and letting the mainland states ban it… Remind anyone of when the Northern states banned freed slaves from entering, and instead conspired to send them to Haiti and Liberia?
In this upcoming election, here are your choices and the stances these old friends (literally, except for that pleasure droid Edwards of course) have taken on issues that I've discussed here recently:
| Kerry – Edwards | Bush – Cheney | |
| Voted for Iraq War Wants to expand Iraq War Voted for PATRIOT act Wants to expand policing Opposed to gay marriage Wants porn out of America Skull&Bones member |
Voted for Iraq War Wants to expand Iraq War Voted for PATRIOT act Wants to expand policing Opposed to gay marriage Wants porn out of America Skull&Bones member |
If you read the last line and said, “hey, that does make sense”, please forget my name. If you have to blame anyone, blame that rebellious bastard Thomas Jefferson, who wrote the following in 1787:
"God forbid that we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty... And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
That's how Jefferson and his buddies defined what it means to be American. Those were strange times back then — it must have been weird to believe in freedom so passionately. What an alien concept that has become. Oh well, times change, right?
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