Emotional Outburst While Watching the Presidential Debate

[queerbychoice]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggghhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The stupid fucking homophobic heterosexual white male Christian so-called representatives of mine in the stupidest fucking so-called debate just would have to go and bring up the "Is homosexuality a choice?" idiocy. AS THOUGH THAT'S RELEVANT TO WHETHER WE DESERVE ANY RIGHTS. AS THOUGH TWO HETEROSEXUAL CHRISTIANS ARE IN ANY POSITION TO EVEN TRY TO SPEAK FOR ALL THE QUEERS OF THE WORLD.

Not only do I not want either one of them in charge of my country, I want them both fucking deported from it for making such a ridiculous mess of the entire election campaign. Somebody appoint me dictator on the grounds that my campaign pledge is to deport them both. Bush will be deported to a prison to be prosecuted for war crimes. Kerry can just be deported to someplace where I never have to hear about him again.

Comments

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They didn't ask the question, the moderator did, and they both ducked answering the question that way -- it was clearly a way to ask "Do you support gay marriage?" without saying "Do you support gay marriage?" and you have to give both of them credit for actually answering that question instead of mumbling an aside about "choice".

Anyway, what's so much worse about Bush or Kerry trying to "speak for all the queers of the world" than Bush or Kerry making decisions that affect black people, or poor people, or foreigners, or women, or Asian college students in Pennsylvania? What are you going to do, declare representative democracy invalid if it doesn't have someone from every Gallup Poll demographic involved in every decision-making process?

And attack Bush for his doubletalk about "tolerating all people" but "protecting marriage" if you like -- the main thing I found disingenuous was that he tries to sound like he's pro-civil-unions while supporting the FMA, which contains a strong potentially anti-civil-union clause -- but I don't see what's so evil about Kerry, who supports protecting civil unions at the federal level but is leaving the definition of "marriage" to the states. Is this issue so important that the President has to institute his beliefs on a federal level *now* instead of letting state legislatures handle it (and continuing the movement to allow gay marriages that's been going on in one state after another)?

And yes, I'm heterosexual, and I'm sure that if I were gay I'd be so viscerally incensed by this issue that I, too, would abandon any consideration of getting a better candidate in office than Bush, and would cease to care about any of the other issues on the table besides this one, and so on.