Oh, my stars and garters. We hatemongers get quite a lampooning with this one! Get ready to chortle, ’cause it’s time for Proposition 8: The Musical!
What always amazes me with things like this is just how mindless they are. Do they really believe this is how religious people think and behave? The answer is yes. They do. Which demonstrates that they’ve made zero effort to understand the opposing point of view, which reflects either laziness or stupidity. Or malice.
I’m going with malice. (You know. Hate!)
If they can, why can’t I? They’ve tarred any opposition to dismantling traditional marriage with the black brush of “hate,” and so they’ve ended all discussion. These crazy religious nuts don’t need to be understood; they just need to be vilified. You want to listen to what that stupid preacher boob John C. Reilly is playing has to say? Really? It’s just hate. He’s a hater! Don’t bother to argue with him – just shut him down!
But they still need us to vote with them, so they bring out Neil Patrick Harris to appeal to our sense of greed. Gay marriage will make me money?! Why didn’t I think of that! Because, see, everyone knows that Republicans are all frothing-at-the-mouth hater zealots who vote with their pocketbooks. So let your greed conquer your hate, haters!
It’d be funny if it weren’t so condescendingly stupid.
Hate is mindless. Hate ignores facts to feed angry feelings. Isn’t that EXACTLY what these people are doing? Aren’t they vilifying a huge chunk of our society by assuming the absolute worst about them? As I watched this, I kept thinking how much I like Jack Black. I like Neal Patrick Harris – he was so great in Dr. Horrible. I really like that black guy who plays Daryl on The Office. Not so fond of the girl who plays Elliot on Scrubs, but her part wasn’t very big – if you blinked, you missed her.
I now know that all these people hate me.
The guy at the piano who wrote this got a Mormon fired from his job for supporting Proposition 8. Why isn’t he a hater? I didn’t vote for Prop. 8, but I would have if I’d lived in California. I didn’t donate to Prop. 8, but I could have. I’m certainly supportive of those who did.
So all of these people want me fired, too.
Here’s the thing. I don’t want any of these guys fired. (Except Rosie O’Donnell. But her show tanked, so I’m cool with that.) I certainly don’t want any of them raped or imprisoned or lynched or sold into slavery. If they find love whenever and with whomever, I’m way cool with that. I just think there’s tremendous societal value in preserving traditional marriage. I think there are reasoned, intelligent arguments that make that case that don’t have anything to do with Jack Black in a Jesus outfit eating shellfish.
But nobody on that side wants to have a discussion that doesn’t involve malice. I’m just a cartoon to them. They want to hate me instead.
That’s their right, and there’s nothing I can do to stop them. But what they’re doing is far more hateful than the people they’re attacking, and it’s time people of good will stood up and said so.
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