Tuesday, December 9. 2008You Suck Rufus Wainright The Self-Involved Bourgeois Airhead Award for December 2008 goes to Rufus Wainright. The decision is unanimous and he certainly deserves it. In an interview with the right leaning New York Press this week he said:“Oddly enough, I’m actually not a huge gay marriage supporter. I personally don’t want to get married but I think that any law or amendment to the constitution that deals with sex and love should just be banned in general. I don’t think any government should encroach on what goes on in the bedroom at all. Frankly, if you want to marry a dog, why don’t you go ahead and marry a dog, I don’t care. I’m a complete libertarian and so I really disagree with it.”Oddly enough I am not married to my American partner because the law here currently forbids it, Rufus. Oddly enough, as a foreign national (like you Rufus, because I’ve just remembered you’re Canadian, but you’re also – crucially – famous and rich) I can see the value of it. It would have saved me tens of thousands of dollars I could ill afford in legal fees to immigration attorneys. I could have used that money to do other things. I might have bought a nice pair of Ray Bans or an opera ticket. I mean did you even know that heterosexual couples in bi-national relationships can pay $30 and get hitched in city hall – immigration’s usually a snap for them – but homosexual couples face stiff lawyers fees, uncertainty, discrimination, and chance. Every day. We don’t even have the luxury of idle speculation about man on dog hypothetical nuptials because we’re – I dunno – so busy fighting for our fucking lives. Continue reading "You Suck Rufus Wainright" Can I be de-baptized? This coming Wednesday will be Human Rights Day (as well as the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights). The United Nations General Assembly will hold a special meeting to commemorate the occasion. During the meeting, the General Assembly will call for a de-criminalization of homosexuality for all the countries. Currently, being gay can land you in prisons or get you executed in more than 80 countries. This will be the be the first international human rights convention that acknowledges the rights of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenders. Oh, and guess who will be opposing it? The Vatican. In other words, the Vatican doesn’t think that we should stop persecuting, or let’s just say, killing, GLBT people. I shouldn’t be so surprised by their constant effort to “protect traditional marriage” by sacrificing the gays. However, it also brings up so much anger and issues that I have with this religion I was brought up in, so much that I wish I could de-baptize myself right now, even though I refuse to call myself a Catholic anymore. P.S. To be fair, the Organisation of The Islamic Conference will also be opposing it. However, I'll leave it to my Islamic friends to get their frustrations out. |
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