Canards

This isn't really apropros of anything, but I was thinking back to SNL's sketch of the debate between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin. The one moment of the sketch where they came even remotely close to slamming Biden was on the issue of gay marriage. The actor portraying Biden waxes eloquent about the need for equal rights, visitation rights at hospitals, beneficiaries in wills, etc. Then the actress playing Gwen Ifill asks him "so do you support gay marriage?" To which Biden responds, "no, absolutely not."

Now, the fact that the left uses the term "civil unions" so they don't have to say "gay marriage" is well established (and this is what SNL was wrist slapping Biden for). What this sketch really reminded me of is the straw man that the left clings to that anybody wants to deny basic civil rights to homosexuals. Who thinks that way, at least in this day and age?

I don't know anyone who wants to deny homosexuals the right to visit each other in hospitals, or to leave their belongings to whomever they wish in their wills, or to deny the right of same sex partners to purchase property together. These are rights that everyone already has. And nobody, at least nobody I know, wants to take them away. Nobody I know even cares if gay couples want to call their union a marriage. If two men want to say that they're married, it's none of my darned business. What IS my darned business is changing the commonly held definition of marriage as understood by Civilization lo these last 4000+ years, and forcing society to adopt this new definition. But as far as everyday rights, does anyone (apart from a few whacko so-called "Pastors" and their flocks, who are so full of hatred that they'll get on a bus and drive to a dead soldier's funeral and cheer that God's judgement was visited on said soldier because of our country's tolerance for homosexuals) care? Does anyone really want to deny gays their basic civil rights?