Oh for the love of god! The insanity continues!!!
As a side note this was originally going to publish on Tuesday. Given the events of Monday in Boston and Wednesday in TX I held it up. I’ve thought about it and decided that this still needed to be said.
We as a country cannot and should not get into the habit of “Banning or interfering” as this Senator attempted to do.
Banning an event or book one group dislikes, places us on the slippery slope to censorship.
I personally disliked Jesse Jacksons rallies in FL against Zimmerman. However I am duty bound as a citizen under the constitution to protect Rev. Jackson right to free speech.
This is a philosophy that is deeply ingrained in me. As it should be in all American citizens, most especially our politicians.
I understand that the Senator was likely just seeking some publicity, but this method sets a bad precedent.
All right people I’m going to say some things here that are likely to piss some of you off.
TOUGH!
A Connecticut Senator by the name of Murphy asked that the NRA 500 NASCAR race be Not Aired or cancelled because of the fact that it was sponsored by the NRA.
I don’t even follow or watch NASCAR and this pisses me off.
I see this as nothing more than a spotlight grabbing publicity seeking asshole Senator standing on the Newtown Tragedy in an effort to look, yes look like he’s doing something.
I’m sick of hearing about Newtown. I’m sick of hearing every fucking controversial issue being tied back to Newtown.
I’m so fucking over it I can’t see straight and I am equally sick of hearing talking heads and dumbass members of congress blabbing on and on about the pros and cons of various asinine gun control bills.
I’m sick of hearing moronic state representatives blabbing on about things that they have no idea about.
Then trying to make laws that are supposed to be about the safety of the public. When in reality the new laws will not do one fucking thing to make us safer.
If Senator Murphy had been successful in stopping the broadcast or even the race, I’d have been calling for his immediate removal from office for violating his oath of office.
You know… that little bit about upholding the constitution? I might even have been screaming for him to be hauled up on charges of improper use of power and influence peddling.
Why?
Because had he managed to stop the broadcast or the race itself, I believe that would have violated the First Amendment.
Folks… Events like this race are planned at least a year if not two years in advance.
The NRA PAID their sponsorship money.
The fans paid their money for the tickets.
The advertisers paid for their commercials to run during the broadcast.
The cars and team uniforms were logoed, and purchased.
Thousands of people fed their families because they had jobs associated with the NRA 500.
That doesn’t necessarily mean those people agreed with the NRA on any point.
However, unlike our politicians, those thousands of people did their jobs and were paid for their labor.
No-body could have predicted that a CRAZY person would kill his mother, take guns from his home and kill a bunch of school children.
That this Senator, seemed to think that all that money, and all those jobs should… What?
Give everybody a refund? Take a 400 million or MORE (I’m guessing) dollar loss?
Simply because he disagrees with the sponsor, demonstrates to me personally that Senator Murphy is unfit to be in the Senate.
Clearly he has no clue about how economies work and is more than willing to disrupt the finances of thousands if not hundreds of thousand of people for nothing!
Based on that alone he should be removed from office, he’s unfit to lead in any way.
Stop bringing NAMBLA into the discussion!
Is it just me?
Or has Mention of NAMBLA come up way too often in conversation about Same Sex Marriage?
In the linked article above there is a big difference between what the Justice Sotomayor said and what Dr Carson said.
I’ll grant you they were both discussing the slippery slope issue, essentially asking; “where do you stop?” But Dr Carson chose a particularly inflammatory and to my mind distasteful comparison.
His intent was to limit disagreement by painting anyone who disagreed with him as someone who by extension supported child molestation.
Anyone reading the quote “be they gays, be they NAMBLA [North American Man/Boy Love Association]” could not help but make the comparison and incorrect hopefully temporary association that all main stream GLBT persons are pedophiles.
That was Dr Carsons intent. He chose to support his assertion in defense traditional marriage by shock and fear creating a horrific image in his readers / listeners minds.
The reason that Justice Sotomayor wasn’t ripped up for her question is that she framed it without the rhetoric. As questions and answers in matters of law should be framed.
Dr Carsons intent was to inflame passions and he was chewed up and spat out over it. If you can’t handle the heat… Needless to say I have little pity for Dr Carson getting beat up but he is entitled to his opinion and his say. The left, should have simply called him on the NAMBLA part of his statement and explained why it was offensive.
Aside from NAMBLA not representing main stream GLBT people, I find that NAMBLA being invoked by the Ultra Right, religious conservatives to be strange and offensive.
I never think of NAMBLA, I find it odd that so many in the religious right apparently do.
Invoking NAMBLA in any way as a reason that Same Sex Marriage shouldn’t be allowed is in my mind akin to saying;
The South shouldn’t have voting rights because the KKK exists there.
Or that Idaho should have its federal funding cut because of the White Supremacist movement
Or African Americans are all terrorists because of the Black Panthers.
Or that independent breakaway religious denominations should be banned because of Jonestown or Branch Davidians.
We all have relatives that we’d rather not parade around.
Most of the time, in the interest of good taste we don’t mention fringe elements much less attempt to present them as the “Norm” and why people should fear a particular group.
In the interest of civility can we all agree that NAMBLA is a minuscule minority element of the much larger GLBT community?
Proponents of Same Sex Marriage aren’t seeking to undermine Marriage. They’re seeking to be included equally in the institution of Marriage.
The laws concerning adulthood and age of consent will apply equally to NAMBLA as they would to all citizens of the country regardless of Same Sex Marriage.
So please lets pull NAMBLA off the table as a talking point…
FOREVER!!!!
I’m going to regret having included NAMBLA in this blog. Now I’ll know how often that acronym is searched for, Thanks a lot conservative religious right. There are some things I’m really better off not knowing…