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You knew the religious right would waste no time wringing their hands over Disney allowing gay couples to purchase their fairy tale wedding packages for commitment ceremonies. Pete Labarbera's Americans for Truth (sic) has this amusing response to the announcement:
So deluded homosexuals may shell out over $8,000 for a wedding planner, feast, flowers and decorations, and a ride in a giant pumpkin, but, at the stroke of midnight, when the mist clears and the last fleck of glitter floats to the ground, the perverted pair will discover 'twas all merely an illusion. Two men or two women may play dress-up in tiaras and tulle and tuxes (respectively), but afterward they will remain immoral in the eyes of God and unmarried in the eyes of man; same-sex pairs can never experience the mystery of becoming "one flesh" nor the miracle of procreation.
Saying that gays can't experience the "mystery" of becoming "one flesh" is sort of like saying, "You can eat all the pumpernickel bread you want, but everyone knows that only rye bread can transubstantiate into the actual body and blood of Christ." You're assigning silly religious meaning to an entirely human event. But naturally, Petey encourages folks to boycott Disney and instead take the kids to Ken Ham's creationism museum opening in Ohio. Where they can learn ridiculous lies like the earth is only 6000 years old and there was once a global flood that killed off everything that wasn't in the ark. At least when Disney tells fairy tales, they don't pretend they're real.
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Becoming "one flesh" is a mystery to Pete? Does that mean what I think it means? That would explain his obsession with other people's sex lives.
Posted by: Flying Fox | April 8, 2007 10:25 AM
No Ova and Sperm? No Disneyland!!!
Guys. It's just evolution and survival of the genes by the most productive sexual activity with the least collateral damage.
That is, if you want to protect your genes and make sure that they prosper you should 1) not waste them on masturbation,
2) not waste them in homosexual activity,
3) not risk wasting them on out of marriage sex (less chance for the genes to get taken care of).
That is, sex for babies only.
Don't you think Pete Labarbera would love to know how evolutionarily tuned and selected his ideas are? How his ideas and preferences help his own selfish genes?
I think the sex for fun activities including homosexual releationships are just spin offs from the intense evolutionary pressure to produce, produce, produce offspring. We bite on various parts of the process of making more humans, even if such behavior is not in a stable, married, monogamous herterosexual relationship.
The union of flesh Pete Labarbera talks of has a mystical quality, but the union and merger he seeks is of sperm and ova. So.
No Ova and Sperm? No Disneyland!!!
Posted by: bmkmd | April 8, 2007 10:49 AM
I'm sure a good developmental biologist could explain to this guy that there are no miracles involved in procreation. Maybe PZ could straighten this guy out.
Posted by: Wes | April 8, 2007 10:50 AM
HA HA! He wrote "tulle"! Can I sue him for copyright violation?????? I've been Tulle since 1984.
Posted by: Tulle | April 8, 2007 10:54 AM
Reminds me of that Monty Python song, Every sperm is sacred...
Posted by: decrepitoldfool | April 8, 2007 11:44 AM
Hasn't the religious right been boycotting Disney for about a decade now? I think the original offense was Disney granting benefits to same-sex partners. So they're just using this latest nonsense to remind their faithful sheep who the evil bad guys are, or what?
Posted by: mollishka | April 8, 2007 12:38 PM
Procreation: Providing miracles since 2,000,000,000 BC
Posted by: daenku32 | April 8, 2007 12:39 PM
Nit:
Ken Ham's museum is not in Ohio. It's just across the border from Cincinnati in northern Kentucky.
Posted by: Ahcuah | April 8, 2007 1:14 PM
From a marketing perspective, it's a perfect match. People who are so scientifically ignorant to believe that homosexuality is a lifestyle choice are the ideal target audience for the Creationism Museum. They will just smile vacantly instead of asking obvious questions.
The next step is for the fundies to "out" Mickey. Afterall, shirtless-and-shorts with a high voice, he will prove an easier target that Spongebob Squarepants and Tinkie Winkie Teletubbie.
Posted by: Ex-drone | April 8, 2007 7:13 PM
I thought the Religious Right was boycotting them for not having Jebus as the main character in all their movies?
Posted by: Godless McHeathenpants | April 8, 2007 11:53 PM
I can see where the Christian right would be all for sex for babies only. After all, isn't the ID crowd pro-creation?
Posted by: Alan Kellogg | April 9, 2007 1:49 AM
You know, if they're serious about the sex only for procreation thing, that would explain a lot. After all, once their wives hit menopause, all the fun stops. So it boils down to them just being jealous. Now I understand. . .
Posted by: Alison | April 9, 2007 8:16 AM