Wear Your Bigotry on Your Sleeve Day in Harrisburg; First Semi-Regular Harrisburg Hoser Award
Today marked Wear Your Bigotry on Your Sleeve Day as all the haters trotted out an amendment to the Pennsylvania Constitution, HB 2381, that would ban gay marriage and not recognize legal status for unmarried individuals. More on that in a minute, but first...It's time to introduce NLM's new Semi-Regular Harrisburg Hoser Award. Named for the famous insult coined by SCTV's the McKenzie Brothers, this award will be presented when it is deemed necessary for those in Harrisburg in state government or connected to state government (or whoever I just feel like giving it to) who act like, well, hosers. And so, without further delay, the 1st winner of the Harrisburg Hoser Award is...
Rep. Tom Yewcic (D-Cambria and Somerset)! That's right, Rep. Yewcic, congratulations. I managed to stomach about 30 minutes of the haters' rally tonight on PCN, and there were plenty of candidates for the first Harrisburg Hoser Award, but Rep. Yewcic took the cake. This DINO stated that if the marriage amendment is not passed, "words like mother and father, husband and wife will become obsolete." And before he spoke, I bet you didn't know that marriage was on the verge of extinction.
(Speaking of which, I wonder how many of those lawmakers standing up there are divorced or have cheated on their wives or have paid for a girlfriends' abortion. How could gays threaten the institution of marriage any more than we heteros are?)
So, to recap, according to Yewcic, Susan the accountant and Lisa the lawyer down the street who live a perfectly normal, quiet life are a threat to wiping my family and I away. My G_d, man, someone call the NSA to start wiretapping those people!
Rep. Yewcic's award is a pay raise.
Thankfully, there was some voice of reason in Harrisburg today as the Value All Families Coalition held a press conference to counter the haters' message.
"The reality is this is an anti-family amendment," said Stacey Sobel of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Civil Rights. "It will negatively impact many families and could take away some of the rights that protect them today. This is what would be accomplished by those who want to write discrimination into our state constitution."
"This is a political and divisive attack on thousands of families across Pennsylvania," said Larry Frankel of the ACLU of PA. Frankel noted that not only are gay couples impacted by the amendment but unmarried heterosexual domestic partners are also endangered. Sobel later cited other states that have amended their constitutions with similar language that led unmarried, heterosexual domestic violence victims to be denied protection from their abusive boyfriends.
The advocates weren't the only ones speaking as Rep. Dan Frankel (D-Allegheny) (no relation to Larry) said that if the amendment passes, "we are going to become the backwater of the United States."
posted by Kinder Gentler Little Man @ 10:31 PM
4 Comments:
Yesterday, near Bloomsburg, a husband and father shot his 18 month old, his 4 year old, his wife and himself. The children died, wife is critical & he will live to see his day in court. How is that for holy & acceptable matrimony?
Ah, he showed how marriage is being "upheld" by the heteros. Next the state will try to kill him to show our respect for life.
Yes, I am sure they will. Did the same thing last year: Guy kidnaps X wife, rapes her, shoots her then himself. She died, he waited to die for several hours then calls 911. They life flight him, save his life, he spends a few months at Geisinger. Then they send him to trial & ask for the death penalty.
Turns out this new guys- the family killer- wife had a PFA and left him (thus the incident happening at a hotel where she & the kids were living). Also turns out 4 -read that FOUR- other woman had PFAs on the same guy.
At least he wasn't gay:-(
And under the gay marriage amendment just proposed in the state House, any of those women who were not married to him could not get a PFA.
Post a Comment
Subscribe to Post Comments [Atom]
<< Home