OMG this thread is so broken.
I mean I can understand why people freak out about gay rights. They genuninely care about maintaining a healthy set of social values. I think that is a worthy goal. The problem is that they think that keeping gay people from marrying is somehow the most effective way to protect those values. The goal is good, but the logic is bad.
Funny little aside here, I have a theory that I like to tell people. My theory is that if someone needs to change because they have personal problems, are an asshole, need to get their life in perspective, etc., there are two effective ways to encourage them to change. 1) Get them to smoke marijuana on a casual basis. If that doesn't work, we move onto 2) Beat them within an inch of their life.
Both of those things kind of put your world in perspective and encourage you to think about things you wouldn't normally think about. Obviously the second method is the last resort for the more extreme cases.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
