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August 01, 2004
Again I am a hater.
I was told again that I am a hater. I was told that I must hate 10% of the population if I am opposed to gay marriage. I was told this by someone who I have never seen before in my life.
A friend and I were discussing the full faith and credit clause of the Constitution (Art IV § 1). I said that I’ll recognize same sex marriage when Massachusetts recognizes my state issued permit to carry a concealed weapon. (Which of course will be never.) We discussed the fact that the right to own a gun is guaranteed in the Constitution but the right to marry someone of the same gender is not.
Thank goodness the PC police were nearby and could tell me that I was a ‘hater’ because I was opposed to same sex marriage. I didn’t realize I hated gay people, I guess I have to be much nastier to the gay people I work with. Do you think I am required to hit them, or will simply being rude and throwing things be OK?
In case you don’t understand sarcasm I don’t hate gay people I just don’t feel that two people of the same gender should be ‘married’. I don’t think people should do heroin either but I don’t hate them. I don’t hate anyone. I dislike and even avoid some people, but I don’t hate anyone.
The same PC policeman also told me he didn’t believe in guns. I find that very odd. I don’t believe in a lot of things: ghosts, astrology, feng-shui, phrenology, auras, psychic healing, psychic anything for that matter. However if I can see something, if I can feel something, if I can hold something in my hand I believe in it. I may think its nutty, like I think about Chiropractic and cold laser therapy – the newest quack fad around here, but I still believe it esists. Saying that he doesn't believe in guns sounds like he doubts their existence.
I should have asked this odd little interloper if he believed in gunshot wounds. Instead I told him to go the feck away. Oddly he did.
Posted by Matthew at August 1, 2004 11:43 PM