Well, there goes Orson Scott Card again

Courtesy emrecom: Mr. Card has a new column out, with the usual theocon rhetoric against queers, calling same-sex marriage the end of democracy. And that's all fun, and includes one part I personally consider more amusing than usual:

How dangerous is this, politically? Please remember that for the mildest of comments critical of the political agenda of homosexual activists, I have been called a "homophobe" for years.

Please remember that his "mildest of comments" includes the insistence that all us faggots must be illegal and subject to arrest at any time. Specific requirement, specific goal, specifically argued for by him in his writings.

I suppose the "mild" part comes from not arguing for summary execution.

But the real fun comes towards the end, when he starts screaming WOLVERIIIIIIIIIIIIIINES!!! and pretending to ask rhetorical questions:

Because when government is the enemy of marriage, then the people who are actually creating successful marriages have no choice but to change governments, by whatever means is made possible or necessary. ...

Why should married people feel the slightest loyalty to a government or society that are conspiring to encourage reproductive and/or marital dysfunction in their children?

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If America becomes a place where our children are taken from us by law and forced to attend schools where they are taught that cohabitation is as good as marriage, that motherhood doesn't require a husband or father, and that homosexuality is as valid a choice as heterosexuality for their future lives, then why in the world should married people continue to accept the authority of such a government?

What these dictator-judges do not seem to understand is that their authority extends only as far as people choose to obey them.

How long before married people answer the dictators thus: Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down, so it can be replaced with a government that will respect and support marriage, and help me raise my children in a society where they will expect to marry in their turn.

Biological imperatives trump laws. American government cannot fight against marriage and hope to endure. If the Constitution is defined in such a way as to destroy the privileged position of marriage, it is that insane Constitution, not marriage, that will die.

Now remember, he's not threatening violent revolution. He's just wondering how long before "married people" do.

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Kittyfort of Awesomeness

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friday is a busy busy day

Note to self: do not schedule two market gigs on the same day.

Country Village, Bothell: Noon-1pm or so, for the lunch rush. Then:
Juanita Bay Friday Market: 3pm 'till I get too tired.

The problem is that the Juanita Bay solution is THREE busses from Country Village and one of those is Community Transit, which has rolled critical failures before, and if they do it again, I have fail. So NO TRUST I.

(I have an excuse; I'd said I'd be at Country Village before I even knew Juanita Bay existed. Next time will be different.