Why conservatives can’t handle Mary’s (and Heather’s) baby

[Ian David]

Why conservatives can’t handle Mary’s (and Heather’s) baby
Published by Pam Spaulding December 20th, 2006 in Republicans, Conservatives Sure Are Funny, GLBT

Andrew Sullivan has an excellent piece up at The New Republic about the knickers-in-a-twist position the Republicans are in as Mary Cheney’s baby destroys a conservative delusion.

Forced to confront a gay, pregnant, partnered conservative in their midst, the party’s past sure-fire strategy of hellfire and damnation falls flat. The fire-breathing bible-beating faction of the far right fringe has been predictable and consistently unhinged in its response to Cheney’s pregnancy, but the rest of the conservative movement (the ones who accept gay and lesbians in private), dependent on the Christosupremacists as its Republican Base, has found itself floundering when it comes to taking a public position on marriage equality, amendments, and partnership rights in light of Cheney and Poe’s family business.

Conservatives who don’t believe that homosexuality is some kind of choice, who have gay friends and peers, and who are not animated by religious certitude, have adopted the public-disapproval-private-tolerance position.

They go along with the ferociously anti-gay policies of their Christianist allies because their political coalition would collapse without such an alliance. But they tend to refuse to join the fight for or against these policies. They prefer to stay silent on the amendment to the federal constitution to ban legally enforceable rights for gay couples, or, if forced to deal with it, they point out that the amendment never had a chance of succeeding. Their preferred position is complete silence on the subject or a demurral that it is a state matter. Asked what they believe in their own states, they dodge. Their severest disapproval is reserved not for those engaged in aggressive demonization of gays but for those who have the rudeness and effrontery to bring up the demonization.


More:
http://pandagon.net/2006/12/20/why-conservatives-cant-handle-marys-and-heathers-baby/

[rodeodance]

1. and don't forget bush's babbblllllling response yesterday.

[David__77]

3. Egads! That was the only part I saw.

I'm gay, and that caught my attention out of the corner of my eye at the gym. I SOOO despise that position of "it's a private matter," because you know that if it were a straight daughter, they wouldn't say such a thing. The implication, of course, is that homosexuality is somehow scandalous or that talking about it is libelous.

[Ellis Wyatt]

2. You gotta feel for Sullivan/Cheyney

and other gay conservatives. The republicans hate them because they are gay and the democrats hate them because they are gays who are somehow conservative .

[La Lioness Priyanka]

5. no i dont feel bad about mary cheney

she adds to our oppression by supporting the republican party. if she is despised by other homosexuals, she earned it.

[The Deacon]

4. As A Straight Male

I say silence=continued bigotry. As a christian (please note lower case "c") I say it is our God mandated duty to insure this child is born into a world where his/her rights & those of her/his parents are respected, protected & mandated. This, and only this, is what is demanded of us by Christ's message of Love, Tolerance & Respect.
Just my two cents worth.

[kestrel91316]

6. I suspect the Christofascists also have a rather big problem with the

mother-to-be's name.

Though maybe they could excuse this as just another virgin birth.