Creeps
This missive from the Family Research Council would be amusing if it were, say, a parody. But as full-bore homophobia from a puffed-up self-righteous bigot, it makes the skin crawl:
Mr. Sullivan also asks how a homosexual union could "undermine the heterosexual marriage of the people who live next door." One answer is: it could destroy it. Forty percent of the people entering "civil unions" in Vermont were previously in heterosexual marriages--just like the new Episcopal bishop, Gene Robinson, who left his wife and children for a homosexual lover.
! Whaaa? I mean, how can you believe that? Does this guy have any gay friends? (Of course, not.) Is he really positing the presence of some type of gay "cooties" that infect the nice, normal, heterosexual into becoming a drag-wearing drama queen?
But he continues:
An indirect effect is more likely, however. As the transient, promiscuous, and unfaithful relationships that are characteristic of homosexuals become part of society's image of marriage, fewer marriages will be permanent, exclusive, and faithful--even among heterosexuals. Mr. Sullivan is optimistic that legal unions would change homosexuals for the better; it seems far more probable that homosexuals would change marriage for the worse.
Ummm, sure. We have to stop gays from getting into long-term stable marriages so we can prevent their promiscuous, short-term flings. That does not clear even the first hurdle of logic.
As in all things, life imitates The Onion :
Spokespersons for the National Gay & Lesbian Recruitment Task Force announced Monday that more than 288,000 straights have been converted to homosexuality since Jan. 1, 1998, putting the group well on pace to reach its goal of 350,000 conversions by the end of the year.
"Thanks to the tireless efforts of our missionaries nationwide, in the first seven months of 1998, nearly 300,000 heterosexuals were ensnared in the Pink Triangle," said NGLRTF co-director Patricia Emmonds. "Clearly, the activist homosexual lobby is winning."
If ony the bigots were joking.
