I Guess One Meaningless Holiday in February Wasn't Enough
My fine sodomite friend Thirza in Saskatoon told me that it's that wonderful time again: Family Day. Everyone in Saskatchewan can stay home and just think about being in a family. Isn't that great? I so often forget that I have any relatives. It's so thoughtful of the state to remind me.
The back story on this official holiday: it was instituted about eight years ago after a loudly lobbying bunch of homophobes got all freaked out about society unravelling because of 'gay marriage'. Homophobes whose families are apparently so flimsily held together that, without all this pathetically defensive and obnoxious posturing, non-heterosexuals making official their families somewhere across town or across the country could rip theirs apart.
And these are the people we're supposed to be encouraging to reproduce?
Blaming the 'breakdown' of society on 'gay marriage' is like saying the Titanic went down because there was no wind to blow it back onto its proper course that night.
I'm going to get finger cramps from inserting annoying quotes everywhere if I carry on with this topic. Such a holiday is so equally offensive to every dead average intellect and to any half-open heart, its premises so absurd, that it makes me want to go burn something down.
posted by Robin @ 3:34 AM
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I first heard about this holiday just the other day from someone in Alberta and was equally shocked...although for a different reason. i was told that the reason for its institution was due to the high rate of suicides in Februrary in Alberta! "Get rid of Valentine's Day" i told him, "that would solve the problem." How making a holiday in which one is supposed to spend the entire day with ones family is supposed to curb a mid-winter suicide trend is beyond me - i would think rather that people would be reaching for the salad fork in which to poke out their own eyes during the 'family dinner'. Perhaps he mixed up his messages and the increased rate of suicides in February is actually due to Family Day and the real origins behind it, as gobs of despairing homosexuals take their own lives in February, unable to cope with the combination of a prairie winter, a conservative government, the coming of Family Day, and the arrival of the detested Valentine's Day. it's all too much no doubt for many. oh, and apparently we're getting this little gem of a new holiday in Ontario next year....rejoice! Roberta
Readers, do you have a more complete analogy for "Saying 'gay marriage' is..." you'd like to offer? Something that represents also the perniciousness of the inherent homophobia?
I find it's not enough to just say that gay marriage (can't bear to quote anymore)has nothing to do with what's going apeshit in the world.
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