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catsidheSenator Boswell says his constituents want him to uphold traditional family values.
"It's very easy to think gay marriage is sort of a victimless act and it doesn't hurt anyone," he said.
"But when you think a bit more deeply, if the basic unit of society is family, then marriage underpins that basic unit of society."
Wait... that doesn't make the slightest lick of sense.
I'll try and translate:
Senator Boswell says his constituents want him to uphold traditionalfamily valuesbigotry and my invisible friend told me so ‘logic’.
"It's very easy to think gay marriage is sort of a victimless act and it doesn't hurt anyone," he said. "This is, of course, ridiculous; because it hurts every straight bigot who wants to send us back to the 1950s, when poofter-bashing was a time-honoured tradition and two blokes kissing in private was grounds for a jail term. You know: the Good Old Days."
"But when you think a bit more deeply, and by ‘deeply’ of course, I mean ‘don't think about it at all, just accept what I'm telling you’, if the basic unit of society is family, then marriage underpins that basic unit of society. Note how I repeated the assumption in its entirety on the understanding that you wouldn't ask whether the necessary and unspoken other assumptions -- that gay families are not families, and that it's somehow a zero-sum game where giving human rights to gay people somehow take them away from everyone else -- are completely risible on their face, and give the lie to the conclusion. Also: if the basic unit of the economy is children's birthday parties, then rainbow sprinkles underpin that basic unit of the economy."
There you go: fixed it for you.
Re: But...
Date: 2011-08-24 03:16 pm (UTC)