Dood. Margaret Cho has been speaking out about gay marriage, and people have apparently been emailing her about what she’s said. Read her replies in her blog:
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She rocks.
But don’t go over there and read unless you have a major sense of humor and aren’t easily offended. :)
Some of my favorite bits:
The statements made were good natured but they speak to the deeper issue of gays and lesbians being treated as second class citizens in a nation built on the foundation of religious freedom. The land we forged exists only because we sought our own God and the right to have our own God, and basically, for everyone to have their own God, as God has many names. Your God is not the only God out there. What you are saying denies the entire reason America exists in the first place, religious freedom. You say same sex union is against the Bible, not thinking for a moment that there are other religions that have no connection with your particular beliefs, because you are not allowing freedom of religion to those who do not follow your way of worship. Dude. You are being like so, un-American.
[Ealasaid’s note: yeah, I know the US was also founded on the whole taxation=representation idea and the rest, but the first batches of immigrants came here because of religious persecution, so I’m with Margaret. Besides, freedom of religion is one of the first rights we were granted by the founders.]
> In many people it seems to develop so slowly
> that they weren’t aware that they were making
> a choice over years of growing up that led to it.
So it develops slowly like a degenerative disease, reaching chronic stages when feather boas and leather chaps become involved? How ridiculous. You are such a silly thing, aren’t you? I think you are so quaint in your prejudice and stupidity. Really, it’s adorable.
> You said you were a christian, and that you
> read the Bible.. but after hearing you, I
> really question the validity of that statement.
Why? I read the Bible. It is a great big book full of information about events that occurred a long time ago, and some of it is super boring, and some of it is nice, and some of it is bizarre.
I read it. Did you need me to take a quiz?
[Ealasaid’s Note: that’s gotta be the best summary of the Bible ever.]
We all get some of God’s love. For lesbians, then God will have the most rocking vagina. God is going to be there for all of our desires, loves, hopes, dreams and holes.
God rules. He is the King. The Queen. The Trannie. The Dyke. The Fag. He made us in His image, and he made all of us in His image, so we are all loved by Him, will all get love from Him, and it doesn’t matter what you think, because He loves you, even though you are a fucking dipshit. You are a nice dipshit, but you are a dipshit all the same. But I love you. And so does God.
Homosexuality is worship of God, because it is the acknowledgement of love. God is love, homosexuality is love, and so then by proxy, God is gay.
But homosexuality is not a sin. It isn’t one of the Ten Commandments. There is not “Thou shalt not be a fag.” It isn’t one of the Seven Deadly Sins. Homosexuality is love. God is love. God made homosexuality so that we would have variety in our lovely world, where we all love each other, or at least are meant to.
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