Texas lawmakers joined conservative leaders at the Capitol for a controversial slice of symbolic wedding cake yesterday, in a 10th anniversary celebration of a constitutional amendment that defined Texas marriages as “the union of one man and one woman.”…. A Facebook post by conservative group Texas Values, announcing the celebration, drew hundreds of comments both praising and trashing the officials’ symbolic ceremony…. Lt. Governor Dan Patrick spoke at the event, calling on Christians to rally in the battle for exclusively traditional marriages in Texas…. “It’s a battle, but we will be victorious, because with God, who can be against us? We know how it all ends,” Patrick said, according to the Statesman.
The 2015 Faith and Family Day at the Texas State Capitol featured the usual collection of well-scrubbed, self-Righteous White Folks eager to be doing the work of the Lord. That said work seems to almost perfectly dovetail with their fears and prejudices is purely coincidental and apropos of nothing, of course…other than their tremendous love for Jesus Christ and his message of love, tolerance, and acceptance. The reality that they love Christ’s message only insofar as it applies to Conservative White heterosexual patriots is common Right-wing dogma…that no one acknowledges or even talks about. How could they when they spend so much time in prayer, supplication, and finding new ways to oppress those whose lifestyle and sexuality they find to be…icky?
I wonder if the hypocrites behind Texas Values realize just how thoroughly ridiculous they’ll look in 10, 20, even 50 years down the road when history pans them as unreconstructed bigots and homophobes? Just as happened with racists in the South who fought to maintain segregation until the bitter end, homophobes and haters are unlikely to be judged kindly by history. People like Greg Abbott, Rick Perry, and Dan Patrick will be held up to no small amount of well-deserved ridicule for their willingness to sow hatred and division in order to burnish their political bona fides and appeal to those united by their shared hatred.
“The God that our neighbors believe in is essentially an invisible person. He’s a creator deity, who created the universe to have a relationship with one species of primates - lucky us. And he’s got galaxy upon galaxy to attend to, but he’s especially concerned with what we do, and he’s especially concerned with what we do while naked. He almost certainly disapproves of homosexuality. And he’s created this cosmos as a vast laboratory in which to test our powers of credulity, and the test is this: can you believe in this God on bad evidence, which is to say, on faith? And if you can, you will win an eternity of happiness after you die.”
What gives these people the notion that they have the right to stick their noses in other peoples private matters? Why can’t they just live and let live?
Why must they insist on needlessly harming others based on a cherry picked verse from their Old Testament, while remaining conveniently and willfully ignorant of other commandments.
Yesterday, these jerks celebrated Ten Years of needless discrimination in Texas by eating a cake and patting themselves on the back. They might think their invisible space daddy is proud of them too. I think they are sorry excuses for human beings.
The problem here is that Texas Values is WAY too concerned with what consenting adults do behind closed doors. They’d treat the LGBT community as significantly “less than,” second class citizens unworthy of the same rights and benefits heterosexuals take for granted as their due. The real hypocrisy is that the bigots fully expect the LGBT community to pay the same taxes as anyone else, even as they receive fewer rights and benefits for what they pay.
Of course; if they want equal rights and benefits, all they have to do is be straight…right??
The Attorney General is warning of “legal chaos” if same-sex marriage is not voided in Texas…because anyone will be able to marry anyone. Or anything. I mean, where will it stop? Before you know it, we could be dealing with man-on-dog sex, or someone wanting to marry their Chevy Suburban. The chaos and moral blowback would be epic, unprecented, and unbelievably destructive to “traditional” marriage. Or something like that.
None of this has anything to do with Christ’s teachings or protecting “traditional” marrage. It’s really just about trying to justify and support the haters and bigots who wield power in Texas.
I hope that hate cake was tasty. What comes next will hopefully leave a very bad taste in their mouths.
