America
*Everybody put your hands together for a one time engagement with the Livejournal online interface. Mark Heftler, posting a rant!*
I am tired of America, tired of Americans and, to a lesser degree, very tired of Hollywood.
Hollywood, you suck, and you owe me $17.00 for Miami Vice and Taladega Nights (down there in Mark's 10 Worst Flicks along with "The Ballad of Ricky Bobby").
This is a message for the free world. Free world, revoke America's charter. We are no longer the land of liberty nor the land of the free. I had a "debate" today about gay rights (mainly regarding gay marriage), something as a liberal theatre-going individual I support. Now I want to put in a little stipulation just in case someone who doesn't know me is reading this. I am not gay, but just like though I am not a woman I believe and argue that they should be paid the same as men, I believe that gay individuals should have all the rights of heterosexuals.
My coworkers do not. One of them, a 19 year old homicidal pot head alpha male who thinks he's real hot shit though he is not is absolutely against it for some reason. This kid is American to the bone, won't buy foreign cars and hates French people kind of American. I want to give you a little breakdown of some of our "debate" today.
Me: *blah blah* Gays should have all the rights heterosexuals have, including marriage.
Cow: They should have civil unions, they're the same thing.
Me: If they're the same thing why can't it just be called marriage?
Cow: Because marriage is a union between a man and a woman.
M: Says who? The church? The catholic church also would say that everyone should be catholic, that doesn't make it right. Regardless of that, we live in America, born as the land of liberty. The fact that we don't allow gay marriage is calling our entire heritage a lie. You're supposed to come to America to escape persecution and be accepted for who you are.
C: Yeah well if America is so free why can't I smoke pot legally.
M: Smoking pot is detrimental to you and clouds your judgement besides funding more dangerous criminals and being a gateway drug. Being married and gay, on the other hand, is not dangerous at all.
C: You don't know that. Look online and see how many people have been hurt of killed from smoking pot.
M: And how many have been hurt or killed from being in a gay marriage?
C: I don't know but two guys together in a relationship, if they get in a fight it could get violent.
M: ...ok. So pot is illegal right but you smoke it anyway?
C: Is that rhetorical?
M: So you smoke pot...are you in constant fear of getting busted?
C: No.
M: So you smoke pot in your garage illegally with no fear of getting caught basically all the time. What does it matter if it's illegal? It's not policed very well. Gay marriages on the other hand you can't just have in your garage. You need to go to a courthouse and have official paperwork, things like that.
C: So it America's so free why can't I punch people in the face? Or like marry a dog? Unconditional love and all that.
M: Did you just relate homosexuality to bestiality?
C: Yeah I guess.
M: *Contemplates Homicide*
How can you end a debate with asking why it's illegal to punch people in the face?
I hate people.
I am tired of America, tired of Americans and, to a lesser degree, very tired of Hollywood.
Hollywood, you suck, and you owe me $17.00 for Miami Vice and Taladega Nights (down there in Mark's 10 Worst Flicks along with "The Ballad of Ricky Bobby").
This is a message for the free world. Free world, revoke America's charter. We are no longer the land of liberty nor the land of the free. I had a "debate" today about gay rights (mainly regarding gay marriage), something as a liberal theatre-going individual I support. Now I want to put in a little stipulation just in case someone who doesn't know me is reading this. I am not gay, but just like though I am not a woman I believe and argue that they should be paid the same as men, I believe that gay individuals should have all the rights of heterosexuals.
My coworkers do not. One of them, a 19 year old homicidal pot head alpha male who thinks he's real hot shit though he is not is absolutely against it for some reason. This kid is American to the bone, won't buy foreign cars and hates French people kind of American. I want to give you a little breakdown of some of our "debate" today.
Me: *blah blah* Gays should have all the rights heterosexuals have, including marriage.
Cow: They should have civil unions, they're the same thing.
Me: If they're the same thing why can't it just be called marriage?
Cow: Because marriage is a union between a man and a woman.
M: Says who? The church? The catholic church also would say that everyone should be catholic, that doesn't make it right. Regardless of that, we live in America, born as the land of liberty. The fact that we don't allow gay marriage is calling our entire heritage a lie. You're supposed to come to America to escape persecution and be accepted for who you are.
C: Yeah well if America is so free why can't I smoke pot legally.
M: Smoking pot is detrimental to you and clouds your judgement besides funding more dangerous criminals and being a gateway drug. Being married and gay, on the other hand, is not dangerous at all.
C: You don't know that. Look online and see how many people have been hurt of killed from smoking pot.
M: And how many have been hurt or killed from being in a gay marriage?
C: I don't know but two guys together in a relationship, if they get in a fight it could get violent.
M: ...ok. So pot is illegal right but you smoke it anyway?
C: Is that rhetorical?
M: So you smoke pot...are you in constant fear of getting busted?
C: No.
M: So you smoke pot in your garage illegally with no fear of getting caught basically all the time. What does it matter if it's illegal? It's not policed very well. Gay marriages on the other hand you can't just have in your garage. You need to go to a courthouse and have official paperwork, things like that.
C: So it America's so free why can't I punch people in the face? Or like marry a dog? Unconditional love and all that.
M: Did you just relate homosexuality to bestiality?
C: Yeah I guess.
M: *Contemplates Homicide*
How can you end a debate with asking why it's illegal to punch people in the face?
I hate people.