LARGETONY Blog

It’s been one month since the election and I have pretty much stayed hush about it. I want my website to be a fun place and once you start talking politics or relegion you risk inviting a lot of things that are not very fun. Not only have I been quiet about my opinions in the blog, but also pretty much in real life. You see, I’m living in a red state, and I’m blue. Oh, so blue.

Isn’t it ironic that it’s the blue states that are left singing the blues. The blue states (and those of us who’s blood runs blue) are considered, in the opinion of the red states, to be morally corrupt and dangerous to the strength of AMERICA, while the red states (and many of those who are actual blue bloods) are considered to be the moral center and the core of all that is just, right (VERY right, it turns out) and holy. The Reds call themselves the “true America”. Remember a time in history when it was being “Red” that was considered un-American?

But now America (the “true America”) wants to wash us Blues away. There is an adgenda there and its making me see red. The election was cleverly diverted from the real dangers to American life: war, economic instability, and anything remotely domestic; and instead piggy-backed on to the perceived danger: gay marriage. By attaching gay marriage resolutions to many state’s ballots, stealthily the Red Leaders turned the contest from a political one to a moral one. Yes, the journalists all studiously observed as we still waited on Ohio and Iowa, this was a moral election. Voters flat out ignored things like high-unemployment (hello Colorado!) to make sure that they would never have to walk down Main Street (the most American of streets) and see two guys being pelted with rice on the courthouse steps. “I know we may lose the double-wide, Darlene, but by God I’ll live in a dumpster before I let them queers have the sacred and holy bond that we have. Now make me a sammich, bitch!”

Gay marriage is supposedly a danger to the foundation of the American family and threatens the future of society. This is the part I never understood. How is a gay marriage going to threaten straight marriages? It’s not like heterosexual unions will cease because gay marriage is an option. The straight people are still going to want to marry the straight people. And if it turns out that some of those straight people want a gay marriage instead, well…how straight were they really? And isn’t it best they NOT enter into a”true America” marriage and be unhappy and eventually DIVORCE. Is the fear that gay men will being luring straight men from their potential wives and thereby destroy procreation?? Again, should those particular men be marrying a woman?

Is it that they are afraid that their precious children will be influenced by the freedom to love and aspire to grow up and have thier own same sex ceremony? Sure, there will be kids who will…only THOSE WHO ARE GAY. I seriously doubt any straight guy is gonna say. “Man, I can’t wait to get a husband and start a life.” No matter how much beer he drinks.

Perhaps it would it be better if men who were actually gay denied it and entered into a straight marriage that ultimately would be an unhappy one for both man and wife, and , again, likely to end in divorce at some point?…which would only increase the divorce rate….that’s the REAL danger to the American family: DIVORCE.

I read in an online article that the top ten states with the highest divorce rate are on the red column (my own Tennessee is #2) and that states with the lowest divorce rates are the immoral blue. (That should be a new Glidden color: Immoral Blue). How’s that for irony?

It’s like the belief is that if gay is not an option, then no one will be gay. Cause we all made the choice to be, right guys?

I have no idea where I’m going with this. I’m not like a big activist for gay marriages. I’m not sure that if I had the ability to do so that I would. I mean, yeah I’d like to one day to grow old with a cool guy (with a hot ass ) . And I am VERY pro-monogamy, but I don’t have the urge to have it officially recognized. But there are people who DO want to, and its not hurting anybody. So why not?

That’s the problem with “the true America.” It’s a selfish America. Instead of “Live and Let Live,” it’s “Live and Let Live the Way I Live, By God.”

But I can’t buy it. My “true America” is a True Blue America.

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