PRISON SEX

Readers of the Tacoma, Washington News Tribune are debating a ban on homosexuality.

It began with a November 6 "letter to the editor".  Letters to the editor are selected by the editors based on how well they represent a legitimate view within the newspaper's service area. 

Gerry Jones, speaking for a fair amount of the residents of Tacoma wrote:

"Hooray for pro-life and traditional family values. I wish to congratulate the voters of Maine--one of the most liberal states in the Union--for rejecting the counterfeit and oxymoronic notion of “same-sex marriage.” The vote is significant because we are dealing with forced affirmation of homosexuality--under penalty of law. This is an historic battle for the minds and souls of our children. Gay marriage has now lost in all 31 states in which the question has been put to a popular vote. The time has come for a federal amendment banning homosexuality and same-sex marriage."

So there it is.  Banning same-sex marriage is just an amuse-gueule.  The re-criminalization of homosexuality is the main course.

As if that wasn't bad enough, many of the Tacoma residents who disagree with Gerry do so on the basis of how "un-American" it would be to try to enforce such a ban--not that the ban itself is such a bad idea.

Glenn Waldron, also of Tacoma, responds to Gerry:

"How will this amendment banning homosexuality be enforced? Is the federal government going to install billions of cameras all over America to catch people breaking the law? Will there be cameras in every room of every house? How much is this going to cost? Will the government have to raise taxes? Trying to ban homosexuality is like the federal government trying to ban people from flushing their toilets more than once per day. As for banning same-sex marriages--that’s up to the states to decide, not the federal government."

With friends like Glenn...well, you get the picture.

Actually, during times of drought communities have often placed limits on toilet flushing.

But enough about toilets.

Let us talk about America; an America where such a discussion is not only happening, but happening in a major American city and published in a legitimate American newspaper.  One might expect the question of banning homosexuality a la Uganda, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Latvia to pop up in the Weekly World News along with stories on children with three heads and alien abduction, but when the discussion seeps like a radioactive toxin into a legitimate American newspaper?  Houston, we have  problem.

The News Tribune is Washington State's third largest newspaper and is owned by the second largest newspaper publisher in the nation with 32 daily newspapers in 30 U.S. markets and an additional 10 foreign news bureaus under the Knight Ridder name.

As state bans on gay rights continue to expand on the growing Tsunami of American bigotry, a dark phenomenon unlike anything we've seen since Slavery, the nearly successful policy to eradicate the Native Americans and the Japanese-American concentration camps of the 1940s, it's only "natural" that this discussion of an outright ban on homosexuality emerge.

With the mere flick of a ballot box switch, it's a short fuse from 31 states now banning legalized gay relationships to 31 states banning homosexuality as a threat to school curriculums (curricula for you annoying grammar Nazis), public health, child welfare and the sacred institution of marriage, the very foundation of our Christian nation.

Brace yourselves, fellas.  Between the hypocrisy of the White House and the Democrats and the gross incompetence and corruption of the men and women who control the gay advocacy establishment, we are fucked as long as we remain on this course.

Until Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi come to realize-and with fear in their hearts--that the self-appointed and sycophantic leaders of the gay rights advocacy establishment do not speak for Gay America, Gay America will seem more and more like Gay Iran with each passing election.

Outrage and civil disobedience anyone?  Thirty-one states on the road to criminalizing the love that once again dare not speak its name not enough for you?

Comments

[Chris]

Think how bad things would be if we didn't have our "fierce advocate" Obama in office.