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gacked from darkrosetiger
From Dana Milbank at the Washington Post:
"If we didn't believe in miracles, we wouldn't have spent our vacation money to come here," said Sandra Rodrigues of Utah, who with her family has been standing outside the Russell Senate Office Building all week, shouting at senators and displaying signs urging "Stop Same Sex Marriage: It Endorses Masturbation." "If same-sex marriage is endorsed," she explained, "then you're going to have children think it's just another option to have pleasure."
It. Endorses. Masturbation. Masturbation?
Jeeeeeeeeepers! (This is the sound of technocracygirl trying not to explode.)
Is there anyone out there who still thinks this isn't about controlling people's sex lives? Masturbation, for crying out loud! I know it's probably odd for Ms. Rodrigues to fathom, but people have been masturbating for centuries. Millenia. Did you know that they've found dildos from ancient Greece? (We won't go into the fact that there's a 4000-year old contraceptive recipe form ancient Egypt that has a decent efficacy rate.) Masters and Johnson, Kinsey, and Laumann all found that a whole lot more than ten percent of the American populace masturbated. That's not to mention the little tiny Victorian-era sex survey of women who found that many of those housewives masturbated. People masturbate! Gay, straight, it doesn't matter. Masturbation is a very common activity!
Nyarrrrr!
It strikes me as an appropriate post to introduce my new icon, which I shamelessly stole from the lovely commodorified. No, I don't have a wife, nor am I visibly doing much to fundamentally shake the pillars of Western civilization. (Unless interfaith marriage is that, which lots of people have done anyway, or providing and studying sex ed is, which I'm not popular enough to really be very out and civilization-destroying about that.) But I have adored that icon for a while, and highly approve of the sentiment behind it. (That a couple of people living together like everyone else is not going to destory Western civilization -- not that the ancient Greeks or Romans were all that into "traditional marriage.")
And speaking of which, bravo to everyone in Washington state who refused to give into Eyeman's homophobia. Bravo! *applauds*
Oooh -- and this episode of Decoding the Past, all about the antichrist, is actually talking about that freaking idiot, John Darby. (No, seriously, the man is a nutter. Tim LeHaye has nothing on his spiritual father.) Not enough people realize that the whole millenialist/dispensationalist/dominionist/etc. movements were created by one Irish nutter in the late 1820's-early 1830's. It's not as old of an idea as most of those people would like to think.