I am glad…
… that people are looking into Newt Gingrich’s marital infidelities.
I am not glad, however, that they are using the opportunity to mock and vilify open marriages. Everyone’s talking about it like the idea of an open marriage is a despicable thing. It’s not. It’s a lifestyle choice that two (or more) people can openly and honestly enter into and be happy with.
Gingrich may have wanted an open marriage, but he was never in one. Sleeping around on your wife, and then proposing an open marriage when she finds out about it is not how it works, buddy. Obviously his wife at the time was not interested in it. So he left her.
It’s perfectly fine to criticize Newt Gingrich for attempting to assuage his wife by proposing an open marriage. And it’s perfectly fine to mock him for attempting to live this lifestyle, and succeeding at being a guy who sleeps around and leaves his wife for a new one when he gets bored while at the same time speaking out about how the values traditional marriage are under attack (especially while being the driving force behind the Clinton/Lewinsky investigation). That’s all fine. Hypocrisy is hypocrisy.
But it’s not okay to make a mockery of the idea of open marriage itself.
We’re starting to see a trend where homosexuality is becoming more and more accepted into society (even among conservatives). Some say it’s the last hurdle in the civil rights movement, but there’s another one very close to it, and that’s the world of open relationships, polyamory and the like.
One day it may be perfectly legal for two men or two women to marry anywhere in the country, but the chances of that also including three-person marriages (or four, or five, etc) is highly unlikely. Hopefully after one, the other follows shortly thereafter.
What he meant to say was…
(via atheismfuckyeah)
Why I Don’t Give to The Salvation Army
Just a reminder of the ideas and beliefs your money supports when you drop change in those little red buckets. From the Salvation Army website:
Scripture forbids sexual intimacy between members of the same sex. The Salvation Army believes, therefore, that Christians whose sexual orientation is primarily or exclusively same-sex are called upon to embrace celibacy as a way of life. There is no scriptural support for same-sex unions as equal to, or as an alternative to, heterosexual marriage.
And…
The Salvation Army deplores society’s ready acceptance of abortion, which reflects insufficient concern for vulnerable persons, including the unborn. The Salvation Army holds to the Christian ideals of chastity before marriage and fidelity within the marriage relationship and, consistent with these ideals, supports measures to prevent crisis pregnancies. It is opposed to abortion as a means of birth control, family planning, sex selection or for any reason of mere convenience to avoid the responsibility for conception.
Medicate away the gay!
They have no moral authority on anything. People like them say it’s white power, white supremacy. The Bible doesn’t say anywhere that it’s an abomination to be born of a certain gender or race.
Abigail Phelps, the daughter of Westboro Baptist Church founder Fred Phelps, in response to being criticized, get this, by the KKK.
Head=exploded.
Fear
Of course the Nazis were wrong to hate the jews; their hating the jews was not without a cause. It’s just that the cause wasn’t real. The cause was imagined. The cause was fear.
Just leave the jews out of this for a moment. Let’s think of another minority. One that, one that can go unnoticed if it needs to. There are all sorts of minorities; blondes, for example. People with freckles. A minority is only though of as one when it constitutes some kind of threat to the majority. A real threat or an imagined one. And therein lies the fear.
And if that minority is somehow invisible, then the fear is much greater. That fear is why the minority is persecuted, and so you see, there always is a cause. The cause is fear. Minorities are just people. People like us.
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Fear, after all, is our real enemy. Fear is taking over our world. Fear is being used as a tool of manipulation in our society. Itʼs how politicians peddle policy. It’s how Madison Avenue sells us things we donʼt need.
Think about it. The fear of being attacked. The fear that there are communists lurking around every corner. The fear that some little Caribbean country that doesn’t believe in our way of life poses a threat to us. The fear that black culture may take over the world. The fear of Elvis Presleyʼs hips.
Actually, maybe that one is a real fear.
Fear that our bad breath might ruin our friendships. Fear of growing old, being alone. Fear that weʼre useless and that no one cares what we have to say.
- George Falconer (Colin Firth) in “A Single Man”
