Margaret Cho
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The "Queer" Comedienne Mouths Off About Gay Marriage

 

So they've put a stop to same-sex marriages in San Francisco, thanks to our governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger. In a recent Meet The Press, this actor-turned-government official said something to the effect that, if they did not put a stop to same-sex unions, the next thing you know, there will be riots and injured and dead people in the streets. Admittedly, 1 am paraphrasing, but what I'm wondering here is: Is that a threat? is Arnold going to go up to that City by the Bay himself and turn that red light on in his eye and use all His terminating morphing mercury ways to stop if? Has he come back from the future to stop same-sex marriage?

And, quite simply, what is so wrong that Adolf—erm, I mean Arnold— actually believed there would be blood in the streets if Mayor Newsom didn't stop issuing marriage licenses? Are althe roles he's played on screen starting to become indistinguishable from real life? And, if so, has he played politician before? This isn't the movies. This is real life, and there is no stunt double and no script and no director, and our governor should not be acting.

This is love. And Governor Schwarzenegger cannot stop people from loving each other. And George W. Bush cannot stop people from loving each other. Don't they think that it will be happy and joyous and peaceful, if they just let it be? What are they protecting us from? Heterosexuality? Homosexuality? Bigotry? Prejudice? Flying bouquets of flowers? Rice thrown about willy-nilly? The song "Here Comes TheBride" changing to "Here Comes Gay Pride"? Other than bringing a snappier fashion sense to marriage coverage in the papers, what effect does this have on our government officials?

In short, the halt of same-sex marriages inflames Bush and Schwarzenegger's own prejudices and beliefs that gays and lesbians should not have the same rights as all other Americans. They believe that they can control the citizens' of our nation and impede their freedom in the name of morality. Tell me: Is it that immoral to them that there is love between consenting adults that has nothing to do with bigamy, bestiality, incest or any of the other perversions the theocrats love to fantasize about that will defy the status quo? Are our elected officials really afraid that this will opent[he floodgates of faggotry in the U.SA and suddenly start to resemble Berlin in the early '30s? It will be the Weimar Republic all over again, and we Americans might God forbid experiences renaissance of art and culture and tolerance? The idyll didn't last for them, but it wasn't because there was a so-called Religious Right there to stop the "madness" of freedom and acceptance. It was Hitler. But I don't have to tell Governor Schwarzenegger about that, do I? He knows a lot about him. More than most people do, I would say. But I am not here to judge Arnold's role models. It just concerns me when the governor of California tries to emulate them.

Hitler really haled homosexuals. Me, I love them. Recently, I launched a new site dedicated to equal rights and marriage equality called loveisloveislove.com. I hope that you'll stop by sometime, do a little reading, do a lot of thinking and help me take some action. 1 really want to live in a country where all people are equal—not separate, not "civil-unionized " and not lied to about their rights. Do you?
 

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