This is an excerpt from a statement from the Texas Republican Party Platform that was issued back in 2004:
The Party believes that the practice of sodomy tears at the fabric of society, contributes to the breakdown of the family unit, and leads to the spread of dangerous, communicable diseases. Homosexual behavior is contrary to the fundamental, unchanging truths that have been ordained by God, recognized by our countrys founders, and shared by the majority of Texans. Homosexuality must not be presented as an acceptable alternative lifestyle in our public education and policy, nor should family be redefined to include homosexual couples. We are opposed to any granting of special legal entitlements, recognition, or privileges including, but not limited to, marriage between persons of the same sex, custody of children by homosexuals, homosexual partner insurance or retirement benefits. We oppose any criminal or civil penalties against those who oppose homosexuality out of faith, conviction, or belief in traditional values.
and so is this:
To build strong and lasting relationships, we support the requirement that schools teaching sex education must teach directive abstinence until heterosexual marriage with an uninfected person as the only safe and healthy means of preventing sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancies among unwed students. We believe programs should teach the physical and emotional risks of abortion specified in State law and rules. We oppose programs that advocate or legitimize pre-marital sexual activity, advocate condoms and birth control use by unmarried minors, advocate abortions, and condone homosexual, bisexual, and transgender acts and/or lifestyles, and elevate minors rights to make sexual and health care decisions equivalent to their parents.
*sigh*
Makes me sick, so it does.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go use condoms while I have anal sex with a man and oral sex with a woman. At the same time.
As a note on the picture in my previous entry, yes, that was at the video store I go to and not my personal collection.
In a society where the traditional nuclear family has gone critical and nears detonation, isn't it time to examine a more open concept of family? Even without personal experience, a quick look around--or at most of the daytime talk shows--seem to prove that married hetrosexuals bearing their own live young are not the foo-proof recipe for functional families (psychogist John Bradshaw conservatively estimated that over 90% of American families are dysfunctional. And that was over a decade ago). It seems obvious that little Junior or Missy would be better off with ANYBODY that could successfully form and maintain a loving, nuturing household whether that be with mommie and daddie or just mommie or just daddie or with two mommies and two daddies--or whatever's in between.
And what does opposing homosexuality mean? Denying civil rights? Applying a well-heeled brown shoe up ass of anyone suspected of homosexual tendencies? Cracking those God-hating faggots and dykes upside the head with an All-American baseball bat?
Abstinence? Prohibition didn't work on alcohol, it's not working on drugs and sex is argueably easier to procure than the other two. And without safe sex education, what happens when Bobby Joe and Lula Mae's surging hormones drown out their vows of abstinence and they end up infected, pregnant or both?
I lived in Sweden for half a year. There, "Sambos" (No, not "Little Black..."--"samma"or same and "bostad" or household: I guess the closest word in English would be "co-habitators") have all the rights and benefits of married couples. As in much of Europe, marriage has been and is on the decline. Many people live together and raise children without the church's or the government's say-so. (which brings up this point: Aren't Republicans are traditionally against centrist governing? It seems now they're hands-off corporate industry--as to be expected--but want to stick their fingers in out individual pies). The fabric of the Swedish society and their family units seem relatively intact. And I believe they have one of the lowest incidences of AIDS, if not other STDs, on the planet.
I think Al is on the right track. Perhaps we should organize a Million Folk Fuck: We get a million motley folks to meet around the Washington Monument (apt: an obelisk which as such grandly symbolizes Osirus' lost penis), we strip and fuck (Safely. Remember your rubbers) like bunnies (however bunnies fuck) until we're all arrested and jam the cogs of the District of Columbia's judicial system to a halt. Anarchy can be fun. If we want to risk the taint of corporate sponsorship, perhaps Trojan could donate the condoms. After all, the Texas Republicans are fucking with their market.