04/12/2006
Prince Harry graduates from Sandhurst; may serve in a conflict zone in Iraq.
The Massachusetts legislature picked up the debate on gay marriage again yesterday, discussing a proposed ban on same-sex marriage that opponents are trying to get on the 2008 ballot. Governor Mitt Romney sent a letter to the committee which reiterated his feelings on the topic: ''The importance of marriage between mothers and fathers, wives and husbands is so great that we must take whatever action is needed to preserve it, for the sake of our children and our children's children."
College reunions, rock stars based on Elton John, a gay US District Attorney, and a bunch of gay men married to women. AfterElton looks at the gay content you might see on the networks next fall.
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I'd love to be part of a BOYCOTT of St Marteen. Any suggestion, anyone?
Posted by: Samuel | Apr 12, 2006 6:32:40 PM
''The importance of marriage between mothers and fathers, wives and husbands is so great that we must take whatever action is needed to preserve it, for the sake of our children and our children's children."
Preserve it from what? What evil fate awaits marraige if same-sex unions are allowed? And, Romney is a tool..
Posted by: Greg | Apr 12, 2006 6:32:52 PM
Several years ago there was a fire at the Cinema Follies in Washington, DC, [read: gay porn movie theatre. Its current location puts it in the middle of the dispute over clearing gay "on the wrong side of the tracks" businesses for a new baseball stadium.] that killed 9 people because the gay slime who owned the place had locked the emergency exit. More than one was married, and their spouses learned they were dead and gay/bi at the same time. [One of only four survivors was Mississippi Congressman Jon Hinson, pulled from under the pile of bodies at the locked exit, who, after other sexual scandals, lost his seat and wife, and came out and campaigned for gay rights.]
Mitt Romney is a reprehensible reptile, trying to slither toward the White House on his belly and our backs. A plague on his house!
Posted by: Leland | Apr 12, 2006 6:37:08 PM
Mitt has done everything a human being can do to stop gay marriage (with the exception of tripping them as they walk down the isle.)
Posted by: Franc | Apr 12, 2006 7:51:06 PM
Hmm, check out this new Time article:
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1182991,00.html
Specifically mentions the recent St. Maartin bashing, and calls the Caribbean (and Jamaica in particular) "The Most Homophobic Place on Earth." That's the title of the article.
Very interesting, places the blame for it all on black Caribbean culture - "Gay-rights activists attribute the scourge of homophobia in Jamaica largely to the country's increasingly thuggish reggae music scene."
Posted by: Jim | Apr 12, 2006 8:37:07 PM
Um, it must be all of those gays marrying that is causing the divorce rate and single parent households to grow so rapidly. Oh, that's right both issues existed before a year ago.
Mitt Romney for President of Hades in 2008!!
Posted by: noah | Apr 12, 2006 11:53:56 PM
If marriage in general is something so sacred and religious only heterosexuals can have it, let's repeal all civil, legal, monetary, labor and tax benefits currently associated with it, so their so sacred and religious institution isn't tainted by such mundane, secular, worldly and materialistic considerations. The virtue of being holy in matrimony should surely be rewarding enough for them.
And while we're at it, let's outlaw cohabitation, out-of-wedlock childbearing and divorce in all cases but documentable physical abuse, so the 50-plus percent of married folk who worm their way out of this "heterosexuals-only" institution can't get out of something so sacred and religious so easily and casually. After all, marriage is "lifelong," or so the rightwing pundits say...
Somehow, I doubt America takes marriage's supposedly innate sacredness and religiosity *that* seriously...
Posted by: Pitbull | Apr 12, 2006 11:54:08 PM