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Topics for the show:
Cathy Hughes and her misinformation about black radio
Women who kill their children and the people who defend them
Claiming ‘racism’, ’sexism’, ‘feminism’ or any other ‘ism’ can be a problem
Parents need to learn to raise their children right
Conservatives complaining about “social programs” and “big government”
Progressives not understanding what “one step at a time means”
Another crazy person with a gun
John McCain and his problems with “the gay

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LONDON, England (CNN) — British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has issued a posthumous apology for the “appalling” treatment of Alan Turing, the British code-breaker who was chemically castrated for being gay.

The apology came after more than 30,000 people signed an online petition on the UK Government Web site calling for the government to recognize the “tragic consequences of prejudice that ended this man’s life and career.”

Turing was just 41 years old when he committed suicide, two years after undergoing a court-ordered chemical castration. He had been found guilty of gross indecency for having a homosexual relationship. The punishment in 1952 was either a prison sentence or chemical castration. Turing chose the latter.

In a statement on the British Government Web site, Prime Minister Gordon Brown acknowledged Turing’s “outstanding” contribution during World War II.

“He truly was one of those individuals we can point to whose unique contribution helped to turn the tide of war,” he wrote, adding, “The debt of gratitude he is owed makes it all the more horrifying, therefore, that he was treated so inhumanely.”

Turing is considered one of Britain’s greatest mathematicians, a genius who is credited with inventing the Bombe, a code-breaking machine that deciphered messages encoded by German Enigma machines during World War II.

He went on to develop the Turing machine, a theory that automatic computation cannot solve all mathematical problems, which is considered the basis of modern computing. (Source)

All I can say after reading this is WHAT THE FUCK?  I never knew the British chemically castrated one of the founding fathers of modern computing for being gay.  I learned about Turing in High School AND College History classes for what he did in World War II AND in my College computer science classes and at no point did the teachers/professors ever say “Oh and by the way for all his service and hard work the British government played chemical whack-a-mole with his balls.”  This is crazy to me.  Even crazier is the fact that it took until 2009 for the British Government to formally apologize.  This guy not only was a genius but he helped to literally save the Country in WWII and got repaid by in essence getting kicked in the balls.  And here I thought the U.S. military was bad for firing those gay Arabic translators.  At least they got to keep their balls.

I hope Alan Turing’s ghost comes back and haunts each one of the morons in the British Government that accepted this to begin with and those that dragged their feet to get an official apology out.  Hope he haunts them real good and makes them do something crazy like, calculate Pi to the billionth digit using a dull #2 pencil.

There’s no news or politics in this episode. Just Kriss and Dylan talking about how horrible Philadelphia is. Kriss went to Philly for a frat convention and has plenty of stories to talk about. Ugly people, Chris Hansen/Dateline NBC moments, gay vs goat sex, MILFs and an amateur hooker are all part of the stories.

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Let me preface this by saying that I support Gay rights.  I believe gay people have just as much right to have a miserable marital experience as anyone else.  They should be able to adopt kids, because let’s face it, some heterosexual parents raise their kids so badly that it leads to rampant deviant sexual behavior…so don’t tell me that gay couples increase that risk.  In essence, I believe every right that heterosexual couples have, gay couples should have too.  That said, the story about George Mason University senior Ryan Allen becoming the school’s homecoming queen has me shaking my head in disgust.

Now I know at the heart of the gay debate is whether being gay is a choice or a natural occurrence.  But regardless of where you are on that point, I think we can agree that your gender isn’t something you can choose.  A man regardless of his sexual orientation is still a man.  This isn’t really up for debate.  It’s biology.  Granted there’s always that one rare case where a child is born with both sets of reproductive organs, but even then I put the responsibility on the parents to flip a coin and either “fill the valley or chop the tree.”

Men run for homecoming king and women run for Homecoming Queen.  It’s that simple folks.  It’s just like women try out for the woman’s basketball team and men try out for the men’s team.  And I’m not being homophobic saying that.  If Ryan Allen ran for Homecoming King and won, we wouldn’t be having this conversation. To be honest, it’s actually ironic that if he had won Homecoming King, that would actually signify a bigger leap forward in the mindset of this country and increasing diversity.  It would mean that people looked pass his sexuality and voted for him based on his character.  In the case we have here, people voted instead to make some kind of statement.  A pretty stupid statement too if you ask me.

Remember the saying that got President (then candidate) Obama in trouble?  You can put lipstick on a pig and it’s still a pig.  Same goes for putting lipstick and pumps on a guy…it’s still a guy.  If I dressed myself up as a dog I couldn’t enter myself into the Westminster Kennel Club Dog show…so why is this any different?

This whole thing goes back to the arguments that Christian Fundamentalist make when they say that allowing gay marriage can lead to redefinitions of terms and other crazy behavior.  While I usually find their complaints alarmist and even borderline homophobic, its times like this when I can concede that they start to have a point.  Sometimes liberals go too far.  A gay man has just as much right to participate in a University’s Homecoming functions…as a man.  Your sexuality doesn’t change your gender.

Seriously, if you’re a gay man and you want to be a woman, they have surgeries for that.  Either cut your balls off or man up.

Kriss and Dylan get a little upset over people blurring the lines between tolerance and stupidity. Two stories in particular have them up in arms. The first is about George Mason crowning a gay man for their homecoming queen and the second is about a woman who considers herself a man joining a sorority and getting mad when they don’t treat her like a man. Kriss and Dylan side with science. You are who your reproductive organs say you are. We don’t care who you are sexually attracted to but your gender is pretty set.

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I have several conversations with quite a few individuals in the past few months about how this country continues to amaze me everyday in its bitchification/pussification. So I decided to write the top 10 reasons why this country has gone wrong….this is in no way and exhaustive list…there are plenty of honorable mentions. But here is a good place to start….

10 – Absent Fathers
If Kanye is going use an absent father as an excuse for his faggotness and get away with it, then absent fathers are going to have to be on this list. Because of you absent fathers, kids are able to come up with bullshit excuses about how they can’t do well in school, treat women with respect, get a decent job, can’t stop selling drugs, can’t get an erection, can’t stop beating their wives/girlfriends etc.  I am begging you absent fathers, please get back to your job so we can stop having bitchmade ppl in our society….please do your part.

And if you see yourself being an absent father in the future, please learn how to convince your girlfriend to swallow instead. Please learn how to pull out in time and run across the room to nut (if you are too stupid to wear a condom). Please learn how to jerk off instead of procreating. Thank you very much!

9 – Dr. Phil
Although Oprah has done a lot of good for society, I blame her for giving Dr. Phil the initial street cred to help set this country in a lot of different ways.  Instead of living a normal existence of having good times and bad times, enduring headaches and joyous times and all that good stuff, now people are listening to this fucker in trying to find ways to skate through life. Thanks Dr. Phil, you are the adult/white version of Kanye West and his foolish influence on young black America.

8 – Child Psychologists/DSM Manual
This also includes every other professional that works with children and find the most foolish excuses to explain child behavior and development. A child that can’t read fast enough is told he/she has a learning disability. An active child is told he/she need Ritalin.  A child being bullied is told he/she is depressed or suffers from Social Anxiety Disorder.

No fuckers, kids are born in very different ways. Some will be tough, some will be bitchmade and have they will have to earn their way into the cool kids group. Bullying in natural. Its okay for a child to be slow, eventually they will learn to read faster if the realized that pretty girls only like fast readers or some shit. Lets stop over prescribing medicines to kids and let them just live. Bruises on the playground are necessary, they help teach lessons  No need to over protect playgrounds with stupid ass childproof mats etc.

7 – Hollywood (Music, Movies, Pop Stars)
Do I need to go any further? Hollywood has made it cool to make mistakes and not have to suffer consequences. Rich brats get drunk/high and go hide in some expensive ass vacation home called a rehab clinic.  Hollywood/Vegas have made it cool to destroy the sanctity of marriage with the 2 minute shotgun weddings and equally as bad, 2 minute shotgun divorces.  These fuckers are telling our kids that you can live through life and make stupid ass decisions and check into rehab to cure all sins. They don’t spend any time telling our kids that it requires being handed a trust fund to be able to do that. They don’t tell our kids that in real life with real people, getting high/drunk will leave you with a criminal record, addicted with the inability to get a job and eventually ending up homeless sleeping under a damn bridge.

Parents used to have to come up with bullshit stories about Santa Claus and the tooth fairy to raise 5 year olds, now they are being forced to the Dave Chapelle skit about HIV to teach their kids these things as early as pre-birth.

6 – PETA
Who the fuck invented PETA and their extreme foolish ass methods of letting us know that animals are decent creatures.  Yea, I know that they are decent creatures and that’s why I fucking love eating Chicken, Goat, Beef etc.  No sensible person believes that animals are some easily disposable creatures that deserve no respect. But, lets be real, since the dawn of time, life has been and always been about the survival of the fittest. If I were told that there was a pretty good chance that we could cure cancer or diabetes but it would require us testing it on animals first, I am all for it. But I would make sure that the drugs have a really good chance of working before using animals.  I would try to avoid it at all cost but if its between selecting a homeless man sleeping under a bridge or the pretty looking Chihuahua that Paris Hilton carries around in a purse, then fuck the lil rosalita gotta go.

I like the idea of a group that can fight for Animal rights but PETA takes the shit too far and need to cut the shit out.

5 – The U.S. Constitution/Divine 9 NPHC Organizations
Yes, the U.S. Constitution for creating so many loopholes that allow assholes to rule this country, do stupid things and get away with it. Not only is it okay for kids to live bitchmade existences today on facebook and myspace, we are also allowing them to skate through education and then eventually allowing them to rule our country.

For those in the Divine 9 fraternities and sororities, this is the equivalent of letting the MIP process bring in skating ass people who eventually start running your national organizations, regional offices and alumni chapters  We know what happens when Skaters start running your shit….your organization as a whole starts becoming bitchmade.

4 – Education System
There are too many problems within the education system and the way it’s turning our kids/adults into bitches. Just to name a few….

a.         School Uniforms - experts say that having school uniforms helps put kids on an equal playing field. The idea is that the kids who don’t have money for clothes won’t be getting teased and feel shameful if everyone is forced to wear the same thing….WTFlyingFuck!  Isn’t that how we all learned to grow some balls as kids?  My parents really didn’t have much growing up but I guarantee you that being the underdog in certain parts of life helped me develop some creative ways of being accepted into the cool kids group.  It forces you to think outside of the box….be funny, be a good fighter, be a smart kid and do other ppls homework…do something. Now we are protecting kids from being bullied? WTF!

b.         Online Degrees - What the fuck is up with online degrees these days? Are we that bad to the point where fuckers can skate their way through an education?  There are some legit online programs that actually have you work hard but what about the whole idea of being in a classroom and being challenged by your classmates to think and defend your ideas in real time?  Now fuckers are behind computer screens pretending to be smart when they are not…where is the fun in education when you protect the stupid fuckers who can’t survive being challenged in the classroom by letting them hide behind a computer screen?

c.         Accelerated degrees – Nuff said! Watching commercials on TV that say you can complete your undergrad degree in 2 years sicken me. Now we are telling ppl that its cool to cheat through an education? Bullshit.

3 – The Internet (Myspace, Facebook, Blogs, UTube, Online Dating etc)
The internet has helped created a country full of bitches. Instead of people stepping out into the real world to live real lives with real people in real situations, now we have our kids and adults having an entire existence on the internet with myspace, facebook etc.  The creation of e-thugs is by far one of the worst things ever.  Little Johnny, who can’t survive a brawl on the baseball field and belongs on the bottom of the cool kids totem  pole is now afforded the balls to create an ethug existence. Posting silly ass messages on the internet and fighting via computer screens.

Adults now come up with silly ass excuses to use online dating systems, talking about not having time to meet people (in real life). How busy can you fucking be that you can’t step out of your home/work for 4 hours a week to meet strangers? Even the president of the fucking United States still has time to play basketball.

I am guilty of using myspace, facebook and write blogs but I welcome ANY opportunity to meet my friends in real life and I welcome ANY opportunity to share my thoughts with strangers/friends in real life. If all of your friends are on the internet, you have a fucking problem….grow some balls/ovaries and step outside of your house. So what you might get teased about your social ineptness but guess what….you re gonna have to suck it up and learn to be a social creature like the rest of us, even if it means getting teased, laughed at or bullied.

2 – Starbucks
The role of Starbucks in the bitchification of this country is not to go unnoticed. Individualism at one point in this country (the 60s) went too far and we eventually found a way to get back to our moderately conservative lifestyles and things appeared to be slightly better UNTIL the 80/90s when Starbucks created this hippie/fag friendly atmosphere where people can just go and be happy for no damn reason. I stop by Starbucks on my way to work almost everyday and even on Sundays before I head to church (yes…I go to church…thanks asshole).

Whenever you walk into your local Starbucks, you are greeted by some hippie/jazz/blues music which is soothing to the soul until you encounter the Starbucks staff aka Baristas.  That name alone is gay as hell and I am sure annoys some lawyers out there. Whatever happened to just being a damn server/waitress?  There is nothing barista-ish/pretty about coffee….wait…never mind…I lied because the term is appropriate for a good portion of Starbucks’ customers. If you were going to Starbucks for a regular cup of joe then you see my point.  Starbucks created all these gay ass drinks with equally gay names to make women feel better about themselves

To make matters worse, it’s not just the hippies that are loving this hippie/gay ass drink nonsense.  Its also fruity ass dudes.  On a fruity scale of 1 – 10, if a fruity dude  (w/ a fruitcake level of 7) goes into a McDonalds or Dunkin Donuts to order coffee, he would have act STRAIGHT (toning it down to about a 4) due to the environment. But if this same fruitcake level 7 dude goes into a Starbucks, in order to prepare himself to order a  half decaf, dry, double, ristretto, wet, short, venti, chocvanilla cappufrappuexpressochino topped with whitemocha with a topping of non-fat latte, he would have to up his fruitcake level to about a 10.5 so that he can properly order his fruity ass coffee.  It doesn’t help that half of the Starbucks staff are equally as fruity.

I can only hope that this shit stops here, I don’t want to see bars start following this same trend.  We already started with stupid ass low carb/fruity ass beers like Heineken Light and Guinness Draught….you should kick yourself in the nuts if you falling for this shit.  Beer is made for Beer Drinkers….the notion of diet beer sickens me and should sicken you too.

1 – Kanye West
Kanye West (the rapper/singer/part fag) has single handedly made it cool to be bitchmade in this country.  In 2007, some people in the media questioned Kanye’s masculinity and he defends himself by saying that growing up with just his single mother played a huge role in his faggotry existence.  BULLSHIT!!!  There are plenty of kids out there who lack fathers who still become men.  WTF! Was he playing football on the school yard with his moms?  Kids play football without pads and tackle the shit out of each other to prove their toughness, no fathers involved. Kids wrestle each other all the time to toughen up and prove their boyhoods, no fathers involved. So please save me the bullshit of being a Mama’s boy and its correlation to faggotry.

Because he produced some decent music (in comparison to other artists today, he is decent but in no way is in the G.O.A.T. category), he gets a pass from us after making such foolish statements. Kanye reminds me of that loud ass gay dude from high school who no one wanted to pick a fight with because the idea of potentially losing a fight to a gay dude is a scary ass thought that made all of our balls shrink.

So how does Kanye deal with the ridicule? He comes up with this crazy ass notion to turn all of our kids today into fags like himself. I could imagine Kanye saying…..’Fuck yall, if yall wanna go around calling me a fag, then how about if I use my music and fame to turn your kids into fags like me’.  Well he succeeded and he is probably laughing at all of us right now.

Kanye started with the empty ass colorful backpacks/book bags, then came the trucker hats, then the colorful ass clothing (pink polo shirts are still not hot, they are gay on men) and shoes to match….to make things worse and push the fag-o-meter further, he introduced our impressionable kids (and some stupid adults) to the worst evil on mankind….SKINNY JEANS!!!!  Now kids think that an outfit is not complete without…..some stupid hat, a pink polo shirt, skinny jeans tighter parasucos, spiked belt, a hanging dog chain/collar on the belt loop, some fake ass gold medallion, equally fruity sneakers and to top it off the book bag. WTF…Thanks Kanye…MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!!

Why are the are the Detroit Lions allowed to exists as a professional football team? With their loss yesterday to the Saints, Detroit became the first NFL team to go 0 – 15.   I’m betting that the Packers next week will beat them, thereby completely the first 0 – 16 season.  It’s actually a lot of pressure on the Packers because they don’t want to forever be  known as the team that snapped Detroit’s losing streak.  But back to the Lions.  I believe its safe to say that the Lions are THE worse NFL franchise in history.  They’ve qualified for the playoffs 9 times in 50 years (NINE!?!?) and have never qualified for the Super Bowl.  At this point I think we need to start making moves to determine just how bad the Lions are.  We should start with a BCS Bowl team and put them on the field against the Lions.  To be honest, I think the Florida Gators would destroy the Lions.  Tim Teabow would set a passing and rushing TD record for one game on them.  We’d have to try to make it fair and only allow the Gators to have 10 players on the field.  After that we move down to the D-II and D-III schools.  Then we put them against the best High School football team in the Nation and then all the way down to Pop Warner football teams.  Don’t think those Pop Warner teams would be a push over either.  I’ve seen some of those kids.  They’re putting HGH in those little kids Coco Puffs…they could probably take the Lions to overtime.

Why do some women try to act like they aren’t “That type of girl” when they really are? I always find it hilarious going on Facebook or MySpace and seeing people’s profiles where they list that they are a devote Christian and they have the Bible Quotes application, quoted scripture in their favorite Quotations and they are in just about every “I Love Jesus” group…and then you go through their pictures and about 80% are pictures of them barely clothed, hunched over with their ass in the air.  Then you start asking around and you find out that they are the biggest slut outside of professional porn that you know.  They’re technically worse than porno whores cause porno whores get paid.  Listen, the charade is unnecessary.  There’s no such thing as a “Secret Slut”…we all already know.  That “I don’t normally do this” line is hilarious because in fact, you DO normally do this and we all know.

Why do radio stations have such a weak playlist? Its like they have two  80 minute mix CDs and they stick those in the CD player and hit “Shuffle” and they play it all day.  And all the stations in the area use the same two discs.  Being subjected to the same 25 – 30 songs every hour of the day is partly to blame for people going insane.  By the 10th time you’ve heard Lil Wayne’s Mrs. Officer in  3 hours, you’re ready to shove a spoon into your ear and try to scoop out your own ear drum.  There’s enough new and old music out there that I shouldn’t have to hear the same song more than once every 4 hours.  Considering most DJs/Hosts are on the radio in 4 hour shifts, that means each one can play the hottest single out ONCE while their on the air and then the rest of the time they have to mix it up.  The fact that this doesn’t happen proves to me that radio stations are getting paid off to repeatedly bombard us with crappy music in an effort to force us to like it.  It reminds me of the dictators in one of those post-apocalyptic movies were they broadcast messages about how it’s okay to give up your freedom for security and “spying on your neighbors is patriotic.”  You broadcast that stuff enough and people subliminally start to believe it.  Same thing with radio these days.  It’s the only way to explain Lil Wayne being nominated for 8 Grammys for possibly the worse album of the year.

Why didn’t Bush and Paulson use part of the $700 billion bailout to help the auto industry sooner? You take $700 billion of taxpayer money and say you’re going to use it to bailout Wall Street and banks.  The same banks and investment firms that were sending their executives on all expense paid trips to exclusive resorts.  We found out Bernie Madoff was ripping EVERYONE off for $50 billion.  The $700 billion bailout had tax breaks for the makers of children’s wooden arrows.  All while America’s #1 industry, the Auto industry struggled to stay afloat.  After the $25 billion auto bailout failed (about 3 ½ percent of the bailout already given to Paulson with impunity) NOW the Bush Administration is saying “Maybe we’ll use some of the $700 billion already approved.”  Geez, no wonder this Administration will go down as one of the worse in modern U.S. history.  It took you that long to come up with that idea?

Why do companies advertise things that don’t need to be advertised? The McDonald’s new chicken nuggets campaign is perplexing to me.  Is there really someone out there who watches that commercial and says “Son of a Bitch…I’ve never knew McDonald’s had chicken nuggets.  I should go buy some.”  One of my favorite Comedians, angry man Lewis Black had a bit where he talks about the same thing with Pepsi and Coke spending all this money on Super Bowl ads.  He says is there really a Pepsi drinker out there who after seeing a Coke commercial is like “Maybe I’m wrong?”  Companies like McDonalds don’t need to advertise.  We know who the hell you are.  In fact, sometimes I think the commercials could actually hurt you.  Advertisements for that Eggnormous breakfast sandwich from Burger King scared me away.  That thing looked like a heart attack waiting to happen.  Not to mention, the King is kinda creepy.

Why do gay men play straight men and vice versa in TV shows and movies? It bothers the hell out of me that Doogie Howser is playing a womanizer on “How I Met Your Mother” but he’s openly gay in real life.  I have no problem with him being gay, I just can’t take his character seriously because his character solely exists to pick up chicks.  He’s character will be sitting there talking about “That chick is hot…I want to sleep with her” and I’m like ‘We Don’t Believe You.’  To be fair I can’t figure out how Sean Penn got tapped for Milk when I’m sure there are plenty of capable gay actors out in Hollywood.  This is the equivalent of a white man playing a black man or vice versa.

Why is Oprah asking how she gained weight when she just spend 18 months on the campaign trail? Look, Obama went to the gym like 2 – 3 times a day…were you doing that? Hell no.  You were probably devouring pizza as you counted the money you were making off of white suburban house wives that hang on your every word.  Look Oprah, you’ve been doing some great things the last year and I haven’t been getting the “man-hater” vibe from you lately so I’m going to be nice.  As you get older it’s a lot harder to lose weight than it is to gain it.  Unless you stick to the routine of working out and eating right, you will gain back any weight you have lost.  It’s nothing to feel embarrassed about.  You just did what most Americans do, you lost some weight then went back to being a lazy fuck again and gained back all the weight.  See, that was nice.  The old Kriss would have made some wild speculation that you gained the weight in order to lose it later thereby guaranteeing yourself another billion dollars from the subsequent “Oprah Diet” book that would fly off the shelves due to your sheeple thinking that they too can lose 100 lbs in 2 weeks with their K-Mart budgets.  But see…I didn’t go there.

Why did NBC give David Gregory the MTP job and then give Chuck Todd a consolation “Chief White House Correspondent” post? David Gregory had the worse show on MSNBC (Race to the White House) and yet he’s given the Meet the Press Job?  How in the hell?  I like David, I really do…but he’s one of those guys (like many) that let the headlines and need for controversy control their reporting.  There was nothing that got me heated more than when Clinton or McCain would put out an untrue ad and Gregory and crew would play it over and over and over again…discussing would it work rather than if it was truthful or not.  Then there’s the fact that David Gregory is boring as hell.  I’m waiting for one of his guest to fall asleep on him in the middle of an interview.  Chuck Todd (or Chuckie T as they call him) would always be the voice of reason.  He would say “This ad isn’t going to work in most places because it’s untrue.  It might solidify the base, but that group wouldn’t vote for Obama any way.” He was excellent at breaking down demographics and who could forget that it was Todd who was the first one to say on air that McCain and Palin didn’t seem comfortable with each other (After he was reading their body language and that of the campaign staff during a joint interview).  Turns out his powers of observation were dead on.  I have no doubt that Chuck Todd will be an excellent Chief White House Correspondent…I just don’t think Meet the Press will survive David Gregory.

I have to be honest, I’ve been suffering from an election night hangover since the 4th. Finally hearing the race called for Barack Obama last Tuesday capped 2 years of the most grueling election campaign in recent memories. Now while I wasn’t on the campaign staff, I have to be honest…the election wore me out. So I took a little break after the 4th from writing. You probably notice the new site design, well I worked on that this weekend. Anyway, with the election over…I can now turn my attention to things outside of presidential politics and get back to the social commentary thing as a whole. What better way than to start with the latest hot debate…Gay Marriage.

If aliens from a distant planet came to Earth searching for intelligent life, I’m convinced that if they stumbled upon the gay marriage debate in this country, they would enslave us all as lower life forms for our incapacity to think rationally. Let me start off by saying that those in California that voted for Proposition 8 (the amendment to the state constitution to ban gay marriage) were wrong. Not only were they wrong but I firmly believe they are idiots. We’ve seen people argue this gay marriage issue for several years now (brought to the forefront in 2004) and every time I see it argued I become completely baffled because I don’t understand why it’s an issue that requires government intervention. What the imbeciles that voted for Proposition 8 have done is set a precedence that puts us all in danger. Let’s look at what these morons did.

Proponents of Proposition 8 say that we must not allow gays to get married because marriage is between a man and a woman, being gay is sinful and we must also think about the message it sends to our kids. But Proposition 8 only bans gay marriage. It doesn’t ban being a homosexual. So what really has been accomplished? Gay people aren’t going to all the sudden say “Son of a bitch…we can’t get married. Guess we gotta go straight now.” So what these morons managed to do was have their State Constitution re-written to limit marriage to only between a man and a woman because of their own bias and prejudice. Gays can still love each other, be intimate with each other, live with each other and do everything else that a heterosexual married couple can do…they just can’t call themselves married. How retarded is that? $38 million was spent on the campaigns for and against proposition 8. $38 million. Are you starting to see the problem with this?

To my Jesus freaks out there. Let me talk to you for a minute. Look, I love Jesus too. But what you have to realize is that the United States of America was built based on religious freedom. That means laws in this country have to be written with everyone in mind…not just Christians. I cringe every time I hear a religious person say “Well the Bible says…” when talking about legislation and constitutional amendments. The standard for writing laws in this nation should be “What is in the best interest of everyone in this country” not “What is in the best interest of Christians”. Changing the California State Constitution was not done to protect the citizens of that state. It was done to limit the rights of a subsection of the state. The arguments against gay marriage would make more sense if Proposition 8 was a constitutional amendment to banning homosexuality. That’s really what the proponents of gay marriage bans want to do, but they are too cowardly to come out and “say it loud, I’m a bigot and I’m proud”. So instead they hide behind the “think of the children” claims. This notion that we must protect our precious youth from the “gay agenda” would be laughable if I haven’t actually heard people say it. Look, being gay isn’t a “gateway drug” to perverted, deviant behavior. If we’re going to start making laws because we don’t want to “corrupt” our youth, well then kiss goodbye to the following: pornography, rap music, rock & roll, country music, jazz (hell, just go ahead and say all music), R-rated movies, PG-13 movies, PG movies,video games, fantasy books, fiction books, cable news, alcohol, clubs, adultery, pre-marital sex and I could go on. This is the precedence California has set by rewriting their constitution based on religious beliefs. What’s next? Prosecuting women for not being virgins on their wedding night? You might think I’m blowing things out of proportion…but there are countries that already stone women for not being virgins. No, I don’t think we’ll go that far…but it does seem ridiculous that we have legislative arguments as to whether gays can get married or whether a crime committed against someone because they are gay should qualify as a hate crime (I can’t believe anyone actually argues that it shouldn’t be). If it’s a religious argument against gay marriage, then the individual denominations should determine whether they bless the marriage or not. That is NOT the job of the government. Why would you want the government having a role in your own personal choices and decisions?

Now you’ll notice I haven’t mentioned anything about whether I think being gay is natural or a choice. I haven’t even given my opinion on what I think of the gay lifestyle. I haven’t because that’s not the point. You don’t have to like gay people or the “gay movement” to understand that having the government tell people who they can love and how they can express that love is wrong. I’ve heard people say “I think marriage is between a man and a woman.” Great…then don’t marry anyone of the same sex. End of story. Being gay isn’t contagious. You can’t get “gay” by being in the vicinity of a gay married couple.

I’ll leave you with this thought. A man beats his first wife and gets thrown in jail for a year. His wife divorces him and takes the kids. He gets out and finds a new woman and gets married and they have kids. He beats his second wife and verbally abuses his kids. He gets divorced again. He then meets a new woman and…wash, rinse and repeat. He does this for 20 years. Replace the wife beater with an adultery who cheats on every woman he marries or a deadbeat dad who hasn’t seen any of the children he’s fathered in 20 years. All of them are allowed to get married over and over again. Yet the gay couple that’s been happily living together for 20 years can’t get married. Can you honestly say that makes any sense? You want to talk about messages being sent to kids. “Timmy, you can beat your wife, cheat on your wife and not see your kids and society will still accept you…but if you are gay….fuck you.”