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How much bigotry and homophobic nonsense can one stand before snapping? And what would snapping entail? Going postal? Fleeing to Canada? Pulling a PETA and throwing pig's blood in the faces of known bigots? And did these questions and the suggestion of certain kinds of actions earn me a spot on the FBI or Homeland Security Watch List? So be it. And it isn't Dobson, Phelps or even Bush taking me to the edge--it's a fellow New Yorker, a Harvard graduate and a writer for our own New York Daily News.
Believing himself to be a reasonable and open-minded man, Errol Louis of The New York Daily News calmly and reasonably writes that with every step we take towards legalizing same sex marriage, we nudge the legal door open just a little bit more for polygamy and incest.
One can't help but to wonder--yet again-- what incest and polygamy have to do with sexual orientation. The answer for any thinking and moral human being is a simple and clear "nothing". Or to put it another way, incest has as much to do with same sex marriage as it has to do with interracial marriage--a crime in this country not so long ago that was viewed as a threat to the American family and all that we hold moral and good.
It's fair to say that legalizing same sex marriage will have as much of an impact on West Virginia farmers and their daughters as did striking down laws that prevented marriage between blacks and whites.
Mr. Louis should be ashamed of himself much in the same way Israeli Orthodox Jews should be ashamed of themselves for threatening to fire bomb Jerusalem's Pride march. Both should know better. Both should have learned more from their own histories. Both dishonor those who fought and died for freedom throughout the 20th and 19th Centuries.
And Errol Louis is not some redneck from Alabama or a disciple of Pat Robertson. Errol Louis was born in Harlem, raised in New Rochelle and lives in Crown Heights, Brooklyn with his wife, Juanita Scarlett. He is the son of a retired NYPD inspector and formerly served as associate editor of The New York Sun. He has taught college, co-founded an inner-city community credit union, run for City Council and was once named by New York Magazine as one of 10 New Yorkers making a difference "with energy, vision and independent thinking." He holds degrees from Harvard, Yale and Brooklyn Law School.
And Mr. Louis believes that gay Americans fighting for their civil rights and equality are posing a threat to all that is good and moral.
Mr. Louis generously concedes that "...it's obvious that New York's steps toward legalizing gay marriage won't trigger the collapse of civilization...But advocates of same-sex marriage should recognize that you don't have to be a religious fanatic or a bigot to wonder, with a certain uneasiness, where all of this is heading." Which again leaves us with the burning question: when marriage between blacks and whites was legalized some 40 years ago, why didn't it lead to an epidemic of man/sheep and woman/dolphin marriage demands? After all once the door was opened for one unnatural marital act, the door was opened for God knows what.
One thing that Mr. Louis gets right is that you don't have to be "a religious fanatic or a bigot" to suggest that same sex marriage will lead to incest. Mr. Louis demonstrates that all you have to be is a very insecure and self-absorbed heterosexual male egotist--who despite a neat collection of impressive degrees-- doesn't have the ability to discern the difference between common decency and claptrap. Reading the words of Mr. Louis, I find myself wondering if the out-of-control war against same sex marriage is nothing more than a pathetic and desperate last ditch effort by heterosexual males to be on top for no other reason than their passion to impregnate. Thanks to feminism they can no longer openly bash woman so they bash us.
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