Despite the many issues facing the American People, it’s heartwarming to know that the GOP candidates for president can still take time out of their schedules to hate me and all the other members of the LBGT community. Did I say heartwarming? I meant sickening.
Since the bible is obviously so important to these people, I would like to know if they support denying farm subsidies to anyone planting different crops side by side. No? This is just about the family? Fine then. Let’s see a Constitutional amendment banning marriage between straight couples who cannot biologically reproduce. They can adopt you say, and children should have one father and one mother? Okey dokey, then what about Divorce? The bible has way more to say about Divorce than it does homosexuality, and it would by definition lead to single parent households. As they have established the concept that only Leave-It-To-Beaver style two straight parent households are acceptable to them, and this is all obviously their business for some reason, then outlawing divorce would be the logical next step right? Oh. Newt has been married how many times? So I guess he wouldn’t go for that.
OH and of course DADT must come back. Without it, our military will be forced to wear pink, and will be easier to shoot at. Or something. Who cares if they are qualified? Gays are not Americans to these people. And Americans can’t fight in the military. We are a Christian army, after all, and the Lord would surely smite us for our diversity.
These people make me ill. I must now go take a silk-wood shower.
And just like that, things get way more interesting, by which I of course mean more absurd. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, or as I like to call her, Ron Paul without education, has just announced in the middle of the Republican presidential debate taking place now in New Hampshire, that she has filed papers to run for President of the United states. Some thoughts:
- This has to be the first time that a candidate has declared during a presidential debate. One wonders what she was doing in that room before the announcement.
- She is insane. Let’s not forget that.
- I bet Rick Santourm would love to claw her eyes out about right now. I think he had his heart set on being the nuttiest person in the race. Poor guy. Maybe a little man on dog love would cheer him up.
That’s it for now, but watch this woman. She will set the tone for how far right the other candidates will need to go to win over the tea party. Hope Mitt Romney brought it tinfoil hat.
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To clear, Tracy Morgan should be ashamed of himself. He allowed his ignorance to get the better of him, and allowed it to consume his act. Beyond being a fine example of the bullshit gay people must endure on a daily basis, it is bad, amateurish comedy and speaks to a lack of craftsmanship on his part. We have enough crap to deal with, without having to spend time on this sort of stupidity.
As a gay man in a long term same sex relationship, I follow news pertinent to my community with great interest. The LGBT community is constantly under attack, and has been for as long as there have been LGBT people. I am also a passionate and longtime fan of stand-up comedy. My childhood was filled with countless hours of watching The Comedy Channel, the superior precursor to the modern entity known as Comedy Central. These passions intersect from time to time, almost always with embarrassing results. When straight comedians try to address gay issues, a certain lack of understanding is to be expected. Sometimes that lack of understanding is profound. Sam Kinison comes to mind. A great comedian, one I respect, but also one who managed to say some unbelievably hurtful and ignorant things about homosexuals. Even as I try to put his comments into context, allowing for the vastly different social attitudes and political climate at the time he was performing, they still manage to sting, despite my best efforts to look at them academically. And that is just one example.
Homophobic comments still pepper the acts of several successful stand-up comics, and in each case I make the same effort to put their comments into the proper perspective. If stand-up is in any way about truth, then the road to that truth frequently leads through questionable and tasteless areas, as it should. I try to have faith that good comedians will eventually get there, and I try to force myself to remember that for those who don’t, homophobia is the least of their problems. Comedians work their material like sculptors, painstakingly carving something out of nothing, and while sculptors have the luxury of working in private, comedians must do the ugliest of their work on stage, in front of people. I’m sure if you walked into Michelangelo’s studio and saw “David” as a work in progress, it probably wouldn’t look like much either.
Then again, Tracy Morgan is no Michelangelo.
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Tracy Morgan, Stand-Up Comedy, and What Free Speech Means
by Benjamin on June 12, 2011
in Featured,Gay Issues
To clear, Tracy Morgan should be ashamed of himself. He allowed his ignorance to get the better of him, and allowed it to consume his act. Beyond being a fine example of the bullshit gay people must endure on a daily basis, it is bad, amateurish comedy and speaks to a lack of craftsmanship on his part. We have enough crap to deal with, without having to spend time on this sort of stupidity.
As a gay man in a long term same sex relationship, I follow news pertinent to my community with great interest. The LGBT community is constantly under attack, and has been for as long as there have been LGBT people. I am also a passionate and longtime fan of stand-up comedy. My childhood was filled with countless hours of watching The Comedy Channel, the superior precursor to the modern entity known as Comedy Central. These passions intersect from time to time, almost always with embarrassing results. When straight comedians try to address gay issues, a certain lack of understanding is to be expected. Sometimes that lack of understanding is profound. Sam Kinison comes to mind. A great comedian, one I respect, but also one who managed to say some unbelievably hurtful and ignorant things about homosexuals. Even as I try to put his comments into context, allowing for the vastly different social attitudes and political climate at the time he was performing, they still manage to sting, despite my best efforts to look at them academically. And that is just one example.
Homophobic comments still pepper the acts of several successful stand-up comics, and in each case I make the same effort to put their comments into the proper perspective. If stand-up is in any way about truth, then the road to that truth frequently leads through questionable and tasteless areas, as it should. I try to have faith that good comedians will eventually get there, and I try to force myself to remember that for those who don’t, homophobia is the least of their problems. Comedians work their material like sculptors, painstakingly carving something out of nothing, and while sculptors have the luxury of working in private, comedians must do the ugliest of their work on stage, in front of people. I’m sure if you walked into Michelangelo’s studio and saw “David” as a work in progress, it probably wouldn’t look like much either.
Then again, Tracy Morgan is no Michelangelo.
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