I am all for freedom of speech. I genuinely believe we should let people talk and talk and talk until they have fully explained exactly whatever crazy-ass beliefs and misunderstandings of the real world to which they cling. This story is an illustration why we should allow everyone to have his or her say. It's how we know who the idiots are.
Remember Todd Akin and his "legitimate rape" comments about how a woman's body can "shut down" to prevent pregnancy? A great example of letting the stupids talk to we can weed out the intolerables.
Here's another one. This Minnesota man, Mike Fry, "testified" before a legislative committee in Minnesota in opposition to the proposed same sex marriage bill.
Part one of his premise is that same sex marriage should not be allowed because married people have sex, and allowing gay people to marry each other will mean that they will engage in sodomy. Well, color me shocked! I hadn't realized that gays in states that do not license same sex marriage are all celibate. Who'd a thunk it?! Apparently gays and lesbians are all getting by on heavy petting and "self gratification" waiting for the law-makers to give them the go-ahead to consummate their relationships. Poor souls.
Part two of his premise is that AIDS results from butt enzymes being transferred into the colon by ejaculation during anal sex. (Sorry to be so explicit, but I only wrote this in my blog for 8 people to read. Mike is on YouTube saying it!) OMG, all this time we thought AIDS was a disease resulting from HIV! Why didn't Mike say something sooner? If we had known that AIDS was caused by butt enzymes, think how many lives we could have saved!
End of sarcasm/beginning of rant. I have several points. I think I'll number them.
(1) People who are not married have sex. And some people who are married have sex with people to whom they are not married. Mike lives in Puritanicalfantasyland.
(2) I do not want to call what this man said "testimony." He is a lying, bigoted, busybody, IMO. What he said is either utterly irrational or patently false. And what business is it of his who marries whom and what they do in bed, either before or after the ceremony?
(3) So, no problems with lesbians marrying, then, since no one is ejaculating into anyone's colon?
(4) If I never type the phrase "ejaculating into anyone's colon" again it will be too soon.
(5) AIDS is not caused by sperm or butt enzymes or gay sex, but by a virus we have identified. Women get it, children get it, straight people get it. Mike makes Jerry Falwell (wherever he is) seem rational.
(6) How does a literate, American adult in 2013 believe the stupidity spewed by Mike Fry? It cannot be just FoxNews. To think as Mike does, you just have to choose to ignore information, science, news, and common sense. Or maybe he just like to say crap that makes gay people look dirty/evil/sinful/weird, like an internet troll.
(7) The committee he "testified" before voted in favor of the bill anyway.
(8) What about married heterosexuals who engage in sodomy? Shouldn't we ban all marriage to prevent them from spreading butt enzyme AIDS?
(9) On general principal, I'd say Mike shouldn't knock anything until he's tried it. Prudishness is not sexy.
(10) It really isn't funny (although I treated it like it is) that he defends and disseminates this bigoted misinformation. People have died of AIDS. People have died just for being gay. To have this sort of false witness in a legislative process is offensive. But it does tell us clearly who has yet to get Above Their Raisin'.
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