I am a little disgusted that the RNC picked a woman, Sheri Dew, mormon, business woman, owner of her own book publishing company, but she's a hysterical shrew that feels very strongly about gay marriage.
How strongly? Strong enough that she recently equated gay marriage with the Holocaust. Yes, that Holocaust. Let that sink for a minute. She's disrespecting the memory of all of those murdered by the Nazis to say that if Bob and Joe get married, a whole race is extinguished. So if Mary and Tina do the whole ceremony deal, it means that a whole race of people die.
Now, Sheri wasn't kind of to tell us WHO dies when a gay couple gets married, so I guess we'll just have to wait around and find out. I don't understand how in one week, Dick Cheney can display some common sense and then the party turns around and picks a shrill nitwit to lead them in prayer.
I don't know if this hasn't occurred to you people that are completely against gay marriage, but it breaks down like this: Someone doesn't decide to stay straight because they can't get married. Tim's not sitting in his living room saying "Man I really like cock, but I've always dreamed about getting married, so I guess, since I can't get married if I'm gay, I'll just stay straight and marry Betty." You're just setting an artifical limit without real cause? Don't believe me? Ever think about this: Denying marriage rights to gay people is the same as when white bigots used to deny the right of marriage to blacks.
Back in the early 1900's lawmakers claimed that giving black people the right to marry would undermine the institution of marriage and would destroy families, and tried to pass a Constitutional Amendment prohibiting 'people of color' to marry, or interracial couples from marrying. Sound familiar? Well, it didn't pass, thank God, but most importantly (though it would seem obvious to us now), letting more people get married didn't end civilization as we know it. It didn't cheapen marriage. It didn't destory the institution of marriage. None of the dire predictions that were made them came true, and if you were to say them now, people would wonder where you were hiding your white hood.
Come to think of it, that's all Sister Sheri Dew is doing when she espouses the crap she does. She's exposing her true colors as a bigot. And bigots don't think about who they're going to hurt or disrespect when they spout hysterics. They're just worried about preserving their own deeply held insecurities. They're afraid of something they don't understand and so they're bigots trying to stop what they don't comprehend from confronting them.
So back to letting this woman lead prayer at the RNC. Did that RNC intend to send the message of such hatred and bigotry? I can't imagine that they did. And they're not the only party that contains bigots (though they seem to exist in a higher percentage there)...but I'm still disturbed that her bigotry did not disqualify her from leading prayer. George Bush said that he wanted to make his administration one that united, not divided. He's talked about compassionate conservatism, and leading a Republican party for all people. Those were fantastic ideals, bold goals for a nation, and one reason why I decided to remain optimistic when Bush took power in 2000. Maybe he could meet those ideals.
Letting this hate-filled woman lead prayer on the opening day betrays those ideals. And that's a shame.
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