A Very Shallow Species

Well, you can't expect people who buy the magic seeing rock & salamanders crap the Mormons shove down their throat to be sophisticated or connected to reality, but the utter shallowness of "Don't care until it affects me or those related to me" is fucking pathetic. Why don't people just stop being total jerks? (We've emphasized the most pathetic parts.)

Wendy Montgomery, 37, of Bakersfield and her husband supported Proposition 8 in 2008 but changed their position “180 degrees” after they learned their 13-year-old son was gay a year and a half ago. Montgomery, a practicing Mormon, said she voted for the measure and spent a couple of days canvassing and working on a phone bank for it.

“We’re Mormon. The church asked us to participate in Prop. 8, and we did, pretty much unthinking,” she said.

When her son came out, he told his parents he had at first planned never to tell them he was gay, because he thought they hated gay people because they had supported Proposition 8.

“I know that’s not the message that the Mormon Church was intending to convey,” Montgomery said. “But it was the message that was received.”

The Supreme Court rulings Wednesday, she said, “just made me smile because I feel like now my son will be treated like everyone else.”

Yet almost heartwarming in the end.

Also (almost) heartwarming is some of these shitheels getting an idea of what being stigmatized* is like.

Moreover, people who share his opposition to gay marriage feel increasingly stigmatized by those who brand them as intolerant.

“If you are for traditional marriage you must be a bigot, a hater.... No one wants to be called that, or labeled that,” he said. He stressed that he and other opponents do not have any “animosity toward those in the gay community … but that doesn’t change my understanding of society and traditional values.”

No, no animosity toward you at all, Satan-spawned destroyers of all that is sacred, none whatsoever.

“It’s not just that there is an acceptance of same-sex marriage, it’s that there is a [lack of] acceptance of people who are not supportive,” political consultant Mike Madrid said. “That’s just fascinating, as a student of politics.”

However, as could be expected, not all is well w/ those completely dedicated to the cause:

“Obviously we’re disappointed, but we’re going to live to fight another day,” said Jennifer Roback Morse of San Diego, founder of the Ruth Institute, a project of the National Organization for Marriage. “Believe me: People are going to be exploring any option.”

Sounds like "by any means necessary" to this reporter. Let us all hope they don't get together w/ the Mohammedans & decide stoning infidels is a good "option."

Speaking of, we'd like to see something more than the mere assertion about the majority of American Muslims that Imam Moustafa al-Qazwini, head of the Islamic Educational Center of Orange County in Costa Mesa, offers.

“As far as the Islamic faith is concerned, marriage is defined as between a man and a woman. However, the vast majority of Muslims in America respect the choice people make. It’s a personal issue,” he said.

Whatever. We note that no Hebrew religious types weighed in, one way or the other.

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*Our generous offer to help anyone understand what stigmatization is stands: You bring the wood, we have the hammer & nails.