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WTF of the Week: Et tu Maine?

Nov 062009

Get used to it!

          We think we have been clear here, haven’t we? We think we have stated our position over and over again throughout our 10 months of posting. We are sure if you go over the WTFs you will find that more than half have been dedicated to the sheer stupidity and utter fuckery of the conservatives who feel that they have to take this country by the hand before we are engulfed in the flames of hell. Our only question is, WHAT THE FUCK MAINE?

          We were stunned yet cynically relieved that Maine repealed the Gay Marriage law on Tuesday. Relieved because stupidity is still alive and well and ultimately, the Save Marriage assholes are becoming what they fear the most. Let’s face it, we are a country of hypocrisy. We were forged out of revolution and as the oppositional defiant children of a greater country then quickly dominated the world. Today, anything remotely different terrifies us, especially if we are about accepting the second class citizens, and the mere concept of revolution must be squashed like a bug. Could all of this be the karma this country has dreaded for over 230 years?

          Listen Bible Thumping, Prejean Loving, Saddleback Approving, Bigoted Asses that hide behind a God that is so appalled by your words and behavior He is actually reconsidering the whole unconditional love thing. You have done this before and always lost. Go ahead and revel in the glory of this win but the precedent you are setting is not healthy. You are reversing laws. Do you understand that? Can you see the danger in that? Let us give you a hint: Today you can sleep safe in the smug knowledge that you guys are getting your way and the Silent Majority has let you push your Christian and homophobic agenda to the ridiculous. Tomorrow, when the Silent Majority speaks out and breaks the curse of this moniker, all of us are going after you. That’s right! Imagine waking up to find that white, Christian men can’t vote in this country? Or, that political action groups disguised as religious organizations lose their nonprofit status? Or better yet, wake up to find Carrie Prejean at a Lilith Faire concert singing an Indigo Girl song while burning a vagina candle with her wife, Ruth. Now that’s a good morning for us!

WTF of the Week- Carrie Prejean-Miss California 2009

WTF of the Week

Apr 252009

In case you have been living under a rock all week, last Sunday during the Miss USA pageant, Perez Hilton asked Miss California what her opinion was on Gay Marriage. She decided to answer ‘biblically correct’ and state that a marriage was between a man and a woman. The brouhaha has been enormous. Perez has been on Larry King twice and for what?

Aside from her divisive answer that alienated all the homos watching and stealing her look for Wednesday’s amateur drag show(because that dress with the slit and the ruffles was fierce), she was a complete idiot. It’s easy to bash her for being a bigot but we have integrity at CoupleDumb and we will bash her for her stupidity!

The WTF is this-

‘We live in a land where we can choose same sex marriage or opposite marriage’- really? Where the hell do you go for that one? I’ve never heard anyone walk into the marriage license office and say, ‘I think I want the same sex marriage but that opposite marriage really intrigues me.’

Miss California also said, ‘You know what, in my country and in my family…’ – Wait a second! This bitch is supposed to be from California, not some other country!

People can believe what they want, but in our country and in our family we believe in equal rights for all and that stupid people should shut the fuck up!

High five to Iowa and a smackdown to the religious right

Celebrity Smackdown

Apr 082009

Celebrity Smackdown Wednesday is one of our favorite days to write because it usually comes out as a rant and we find those cathartic and healing. This week is no different in the rant but the ‘celebrity’ is definitely a stretch. Let’s just say that April 3, 2009 in Iowa, will be a day that will live in infamy!

The Iowan Supreme Court upheld a lower courts ruling to strike down a statewide ban of gay marriage stating that they ‘are firmly convinced the exclusion of gay and lesbian people from the institution of civil marriage does not substantially further any important governmental objective.’ There was lots of bitching from religious groups upon hearing this. Sioux City Bishop R. Walker Nickless said the news was ‘sad and disappointing’ and that ‘It is an attempt to narrow the definition of marriage as secular, subjective and utilitarian. This decision attacks all those couples who believe that their marriages are religious, objective and purposeful.’

So you’re wondering what this has to do with attachments which is the general them of the week. It’s simple, beliefs can be attachments. When you hold on to something so tight and become blind to all else, you are suffering from an attachment. The reaction of religion in general to gay marriage has been fascinating. We know that the Church of Latter Day Saints funneled their time and talent and treasure into California’s Proposition 8 election and single handedly made a blue state conservative red. They had people voting for the sanctity of marriage and the future of their children who would be forced to have gay pride parades every second Tuesday of the month or some other bullshit they invented.

The idea that a law permitting gay marriage was somehow going to affect churches was as preposterous as teachers discussing lesbianism in the classroom. Teachers don’t discuss heterosexuals so why would this open the floodgates to indoctrinate our kids in the homosexual ways. Everyone knows that’s what happens when they go to sleep away camp and robes are used for the ceremonies. The arguments put forth from religious and anti gay groups (redundant we know) are as absurd as the things said before blacks were allowed their freedom and women were allowed to vote.

Listen up religions, churches and people of faith who believe that if gay people marry then the four horsemen can’t be far behind, wake up and call it what it is: BIGOTRY! Don’t hide behind God because we agree that he doesn’t make mistakes. The refusal to allow any group basic rights flies in the very face of what Jesus taught us in Mathew 12:31 ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ You can talk about rules and hide behind your beliefs that have been hand written and honed by old men long gone to this world. You can squeeze your attachments to your breasts and believe that these will put you on the fast track to heaven. Or, you can actually read the words of Jesus Christ and love your neighbor and that includes the two dykes with the dogs and great yard next door.

Coming out, in a big way, for equal rights.

If you are a straight couple that believes in equal marriage rights for all then we need your help. A friend of ours is creating a video montage for straight couples to throw their support behind the gay community. Here are the instructions:

STEP ONE: Read the sentences at the bottom and pick your favorite one (or make up a similar one of your own)

STEP TWO: Print it on to a piece of paper either by hand or on your computer and hold it in front of the two of you.

STEP THREE: Take a picture of you two and the paper.

STEP FOUR: Upload it here: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2485057099

Potential choices:
‘Straight not narrow’
‘Being a hater doesn’t make you straighter.’
‘Gay marriage doesn’t hurt our marriage.’
‘Our love isn’t a phase either.”
‘Straight & against Prop 8.’
‘Our Love = Their Love’

Thank you.