Feminist Conservative: Glenn Beck Is Wrong On Gay Marriage It Threatens Every Woman In The US

Writing on Death By 1000 Papercuts, “Red State Gal” adds herself to the list of conservatives who think that Glenn Beck has gone totally and utterly loopy by deciding to move away from condoning gay marriage and concluding it will cause the world to explode.

Saying that he, as a man, does not truly understand the problems that gay marriage pose she then goes on to explain just exactly why any of us gay types getting married will do the world harm stating that same sex marriage will act to prove that “individual and societal happiness is not dependent upon forming loving, equal partnerships with the other half of the human race“  and threaten every woman in the United States (personallywe don’t quite see how gay marriage will act to threaten all the gay women of the US or indeed any but anyway..).

Moving onto gay parenting there’s nearly a compliment when she says that gays can “certainly be great parents” but soon enough is taking it all back saying we act to teach children that no one needs a mother or father before picking on Neil Patrick Harris and his partner saying how they’ve “bought eggs and rented a womb in order to have twins” and by doing so are causing the “erasure of motherhood”.

And then we return to Beck once more where first she criticises him for not being a good Christian asking him when this standing back and letting things happen will end, using the shocking example of a time when, shock horror, “Disney creates its first “princess-princess” or “prince-prince” love story”, to then deciding the man is using some kind of reverse psychology urging everyone back to church to rediscover just how bad gay marriage is.

Nearly coming to her senses towards the end by concluding that “(m)aybe conservatives cannot stop same-sex marriage” she then begins condoning home schooling as the only real way to ensure their children never hear a word of gay marriage. Umm sounds like they’re going to come out as great rounded individuals…

Now really we don’t know where to start on all this so we’re going to hand it over to Eric, one of the commentators on the post, who does a great job of putting Red State Girl in her place.

So let me get this right. The big reason to be against same sex marriage is that it will some how prevent kids from being gay. That didn’t work out so well for the 30 million mothers who currently have gay children. Blocking same sex marriage isn’t going to magically turn gays straight. Let’s be honest making marriage availible to the LGBT community really won’t stop them from living together and raising children. It’s going to happen no matter what the marriage laws are. Taught in schools? What is preventing sexual orientation from being taught there now? Christianity? Only 70% of Americans think of themselves as Christian and Hindus and Buddists have very different veiws on sexuality. It’s time for conservatives to put thier energy where they have a chance of winning, and a chance to actually make a difference.

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