Words Like Locusts Flew From Her Fingers

I’m Pro-Life

Salon.com News | Republicans endorse ban on gay marriage: “The party’s full platform committee was taking up the marriage plank and other planks late Wednesday, meantime seeking ways to appease Republicans who support gay rights or abortion rights without embracing their positions.

“‘We are the party of the open door,’ said Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, who led platform deliberations on social issues.”

Yeah, and I wish he and his pals would go through that door and close it on the way out.

Those of you who’ve been following along are probably getting pretty tired of my rants about gay marriage. Sorry. It’s just that…it really pisses me off that anyone would want an actual constitutional amendment to deny gay couples the legal and social benefits of marriage. That’s just wrong.

I’m also annoyed by how this salon.com article–and lots of people just in general–keep pairing up gay marriage and abortion rights as though the two were inseparably linked somehow. Like…a person couldn’t be completely in favor of gay people getting married and also be opposed to abortion.

These political pundits and journalists don’t understand people like me at all. And I don’t think I’m really all that unusual.

Here’s what I’m about, if you’re interested:

• In favor of gay people getting married
• Opposed to abortion except in cases where carrying to term would kill the mother or the kid would be born without a brain or some such awfulness.
• Completely in favor of safe, reliable, and inexpensive (free!) contraception for anyone who wants it. (And by this I mean real contraception–the kind that prevents conception altogether.)

I’m a pro-life kind of person, you see. I’m in favor of all life being allowed to flourish however it best can and I believe in not intentionally killing anyone or anything except in self-defense. That’s how I try to live my life. I’m not completely successful, but I do try.

So, that’s where I’m coming from.