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I Blame Gay Marriage!
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009Sadly, public acceptance of gay marriage has given yet another conservative politician no choice but to cheat on his wife.
Won’t someone please think of the hypocrites?
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Well an Ensign does need a flagpole to run up.
he should’ve said, ‘Look bitches- what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas!’
I think of the hypocrites all the time. And then I laugh.
At least there’s no dead-eyed, rictus-smiling wife standing next to him.
This “I blame gay marriage” meme is really getting old.
Politico is reporting a blackmail angle to the story.
Totally agree Syndey. It’s jumped the shark.
@Sydney Carton
It is getting old! I blame gay marriage!
But seriously! It’s the best way to trivialize (meaning, the argument against), and thereby conquer.
I mean, have you seen my ratemyprofessor page lately? Took them down a notch.
you’re the best, radley (even if you’re wrong half the time).
As so well-stated in a comment at Politico: GOP: the party of family values.
“This “I blame gay marriage” meme is really getting old.”
It’s almost as old and tired as the we need to ban gay marriage to protect our marrages lines such as: “Marriage is an extremely important institution in this country and protecting it is, in my mind, worth the extraordinary step of amending our constitution”
I wonder who said that?
At what point do we not blame social pressures and actually blame the individual himself for doing something horrible like deceiving his wife. It would be nice if we stopped looking for excuses and held people accountable for their actions – regardless of what “peer pressure” they might have faced.
This is a lame attempt to advance the cause of gay marriage (which is a good cause in itself).
How does a man being unfaithful to his wife have anything to do with gay marriage? Many conservatives support either one.
A conservative could just as easily (and just as inaccurately) claim that libertarians have no business talking about economic policy, as they’re probably all stoned on medical marijuana anyway.
Edit above: Many conservatives *don’t* support either one.
Got to love forgetting to finish the mid-sentence rephrase.
[...] Nate Carlile reminds us of some of Ensign’s past remarks on the sanctity of marriage. And Radley Balko snarks, “Sadly, public acceptance of gay marriage has given yet another conservative [...]
thorn, I think that is radley’s point (although somewhat indirectly). Gay marriage has no effect on a straight marraige. However that is not the arguments that the politicans who oppose gay marriage are making. They claim to oppose gay marriage in order to protect the institution of marriage. So tell me what are the signs of that my marriage that is damaged because 2 guys down the street from me married? There must be some outwardly visible sign right? I’m sure the conservatives have some evidence right? Poking fun at hypocrasy is always at least mildly amusing.
Now if the coalitions against gay marriage just said, Gay People are scum I don’t want them near me, and in fact I rather we locked them all away somewhere, certainly we don’t want to give them any rights. Then normal adultery would truely be unrelated to the gay marriage issue. I would think they are major douchebags but they wouldn’t be hypocrites. The fact that they try to sugar coat this sentiment and say they think gays are equal citizens but just shouldnt’ get married leads to the hypocracy.
Could we blame this on abortion instead?
Kidding! Seriously, I’m kidding. I don’t want to start the same shit we all had to deal with yesterday.
I’m really curious what would happen if a senator or a governor was caught sleeping with someone other than his spouse, and just came out and said “Look, we’re swingers. The night before this, my wife was banging Kissinger in the hot tub. Everything is cool.”
[...] Radley Balko, in full Sadly, public acceptance of gay marriage has given yet another conservative politician no choice but to cheat on his wife. [...]
Jeez, lots of peeps left their sense of humor at home today.
I don’t understand the “I blame gay marriage” and how does that make him a hypocrite. Did the senator marry a man?
The gay marriage issue should just go away…. in fact the State should not be a party to an agreement between any individuals or group of individuals. Get the government out of Marriage!!!! I don’t need to buy a license (permission) to love who I want to love
I blame gay comedians!
The problem (in my opinion) with the Gay Marriage debate – in terms of “traditional conservatism” – is that it’s not just a matter of semantics. Such people that believe marriage = man+woman, that *is* the only equation that is acceptable to be defined as “marriage”.
Basically, they are saying that their opinion is A = A… not “A = whatever you want it to be.”
For example, you can grab some beads and wire and make yourself a sculpture – but unless you build in a particular manner/arrangement, you can’t call it an abacus. A pretty sculpture? Sure. But an abacus is more than just some wire and beads.
Infidelity is an entirely different and separate matter. Breaking your marriage vows doesn’t mean you’ll support a different definition of marriage, just as not being a chef doesn’t mean you
can’t complain about the taste of a meal.
And this is another moralistic Repuke to go down. He was all over Clinton and Craig but he was also a founder of the web site “Respectable Nevada”. This was in opposition to a 2002 ballot to legalize pot. Ensign said after the measure was defeated that “now that’s a respectable Nevada”… so you can screw your co-workers wife but don’t let those leftist slugs smoke pot! A true Republican!
Ensign said this in 2004 when declaring his support for a constitutional amendment banning same sex marriage throughout the United States:
“Marriage is an extremely important institution in this country and protecting it is, in my mind, worth the extraordinary step of amending our constitution.”
Apparently, this extremely important institution is not worth the extraordinary step of keeping his zipper up.
thorn,
regarding the abacus analogy, If some guy wants to put some string and beads together in some random fashion and call it an abucus, I have absolutely no problems with it. I don’t have to believe him and am free to call him an idiot. If however he wants to force his definition of an abacus on me and force me to use his abacus to do arithmatic I will have a problem. And this is exactly what conservatives are attempting todo. I normally wouldn’t care what your definition of marriage is, but if you want to use that word to convey legal rights that effect me personally, then it becomes my buisness.
The government uses the word marriage to convey all sorts of legal rights, rights that are not the same as those granted by a state sanctioned civil union or state sanctioned gay marriage. So that brings the question of why marriage should be defined as only man + woman into question.
The conservative response has been if we don’t keep marriage as “man + woman” it will harm the institution of marriage. This reasoning is seems to be BS. I certainly didn’t have an affair when gay marriage became legal in my state. Now the real solution would be to excise the word marriage from all laws and replace it with ‘civil union’. Then the marriage debate could be left between the religious groups where it belongs.