Gay Marriage
Mood:  quizzical
Topic: Observations
The Republicans are slowly going down in flames. President Bush's approval ratings are in the 30's. Key mid-term house and senate races are showing Democrats with double digit leads in early polls. So what does it all mean? It means it's time for the no fun gang to trot a tried and true favorite, gay marriage.

Apparently the only way to get the vote of a soccer mom or a gun rack in the truck nascar dad is to promise them you'll never let the homos next door get married. I realize there is a portion of society that is so busy watching bad TV and text messaging American Idol 150 times a week that it's hard to get them to pay attention to the more mundane issues facing the nation. Things like the economy or the war or the appalling number of their neighbors that can't afford healthcare don't as a rule show up on the radar screen of the linear thinking simple minded GOP base. The GOP knows this so they keep the attention of their base by using tactics that they know will get said base to react. They "Jerry Springer" them into action. Appeal to their sense of "morality." It always works. The GOP knows these yahoos won't vote unless they can make them believe a gay Arab is going to show up at their door with a bomb and a marriage license. The sad part is that it works all to well. What does it say about us as a nation when 44 million of our citizens can't afford to get sick and families are on the verge of literally going under, yet our government is most worried about whether or not a couple of gay people can get married. I'm not a magician but I think that is what you would call sleight of hand. Get them focused in one direction so you can do the trick while they're not looking.

The truth is I don't like the idea of gay marriage either. Don't get me wrong I am as socially liberal as anyone you'll ever meet. I just can't get used to the idea of gay marriage. My problem is that before I could ever vote for a law or an amendment banning gay marriage I'd need to come up with a legitimate argument for why I am against it. I can't do it. Try as I might to come up with a reason I can't come up with anything other than I just don't like it. Well "I just don't like it" isn't anywhere near good enough and that's the difference. The GOP simpletons don't seem to mind voting for the "just don't like it" card. And that my friends may be one big reason why we are where we are today.

I guess I'll end this by saying what I say to anyone who asks me about gay marriage. I don't like it but until you can show me how it will adversely affect my life in any way shape or form I can't be against it.

Laws should be based on facts. They should be put in place to protect the people. We can't ban something simply because we "just don't like it."

Gay marriage is what you run on when you don't have any ideas.