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Letters to Bill O'Reilly - the gay marriage debate (12-29-2008)
I am sick and tired of hearing Bill O'Reilly throw out these common conservative arguments against gay marriage. Don't get me wrong, I respect Bill for trying to be fair and balanced (at least a hell of a lot more than Hannity is). But sometimes he is just plain wrong. And I tried to point out the logical flaws in his arguments. I doubt he will even consider what I said. But oh well, that's one thing I can't control.
Bill you can't be further off when you talk about having to appease all groups when it comes to gay marriage. You tow the conservative line of: if gays are given the right to marry, then the same has to be done for polygamists, for people who want to marry their pet, for people who want to marry their children, etc..
Well Bill, nearly One Hundred Years ago, this country (during a time when outhouses were still being used!) was able to give WOMEN the right to vote. They didn't worry about giving 6 year olds, pets, carrot sticks, trees, or even common household glue the right to vote. They didn't worry about appeasing people who wanted to vote twice, twelve times, or who wanted their singular vote to count more than someone else's singular vote. Nope, back when commercial airplanes didn't even exist, this country was able to say "Women, and only women, have the right to vote".
So here we are, nearly ONE HUNDRED YEARS later, and wow have we devolved! We claim that we are so civilized and modernized. That we are the greatest country on the planet. Yet we can't define marriage as "between two, of-age human beings" because all of a sudden we have to take into consideration all of these other groups?!? I'm sorry Bill, but you conservatives have ruined this country. You have demonized and trivialize everything to the point that nothing can get done.
One Hundred Years ago we were able to give singularly women the right to vote. Now because of people like you, we have lost our common sense.
P.S. Please don't fall back on the Conservative argument of how gay marriage destabilizes society. If you can't see that our hetero-only marriage society is already quite unstable due to drugs and alcohol, child and spousal abuse, the broken public school system, corrupt politicians, insurmountable debt, warrantless wiretaps, Parents Not Allowed To Be Parents, commercialism and greed, and oh yeah, desensitizing of the populace, then you are blind on top of it all!
This Rant Brought To You By Matthew T. Chernay
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