On Friday, the Supreme Court of the United States made gay marriage a legal reality. In the weeks leading up to this decision, men of the cloth and their hot-breathed lay enablers predicted that the world would end, a wrathful deity would destroy the nation forthwith, and the traditional family was at peril.
Actually, the traditional family has been pretty much shredded. Divorce, birthcontrol, wife-beating, and the well-publicised tawdry affairs of various highly moral politicians and preachers did that ages ago.
[Add cocaine, congressional pages, and booze ... ]
The traditional family was not that big a deal anyhow.
But if our rightwing politicians cannot act as exemplars of the highest moral standards, what is there? Certainly not the preachers; they're nuts.
It would appear that the Jesus crowd is composed largely of adulterers, child molesters, drunks, and screamingly batshit teabaggers.
Collectively known as "The South".
Mind you, it isn't all of the The South, and it isn't limited to The South.
That term should be understood as both a state of mind, and an all-encompassing concept.
Even the survivalists in the upper peninsula (Michigan) are "The South".
They've got guns, Jesus, and a fear of the zombie apocalypse.
[And more MREs than Fema and the army combined.]
I, for one, am extremely disappointed that Southern men of g-d haven't set themselves on fire in protest, as was promised (!), and that zombies have not started eating everyone who likes banjo music.
It would have been so nice if Texas had gone up in flames due to massive asshat brain-explosions.
I feel cheated.
Life continues as normal, society still functions as fitfully and fully as it did beforehand. And The South is still, unfortunately, with us.
This is horrible.
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