Same-Sex Marriage Is (Finally) a Fucking Thing

Your old road is

Rapidly agin'.

Please get out of the new one

If you can't lend your hand

For the times they are a-changin'.

- Bob Dylan

Congrats. 

It’s been a long time coming. Common sense has taken foothold in a world that progressively becomes more insane. Those that battle against Human Rights face not ideologies, opinions, or mere thoughts. They face mankind, regardless of race, ethnic background or sexual preference. Gay rights – and get ready for this breathtaking, awe-inspiring, world-shattering revelation – are human rights.

It’s been a hell of a battle for the gay community, but it’s a war far from over. Winning New York is a big step, an affirming one for those whose faith had started to falter and whose hopes of a world that respects them as human beings had been systematically shattered. You’ve won the Big Apple, with a Congress of a Republican Majority! That’s winning against all odds. I commend you for your persistence, but now is not the time to rest. 

You can’t stop. Ride this for all it is worth. Fight harder than ever before and take advantage of this gasp of fresh air to keep on going rather than rest. Realize that now is when things are going to get tough, because slowly you’ll see that you do not fight for a city, a state or even a country. You fight for equality all over the world, and a battle won today opens up doors for battles tomorrow, in other lands.

The opposition holds ground in moral abstracts that are supposed to be unchallenged and unquestioned. “It is not normal! God hates fags! Gay marriage will pave the way for other depravations such as bestiality.” Seriously? What. The. SCREAMING. Fuck? This logic is veritably unquestionable, not because it is a worthy axiom but because it is retarded thinking.  Ignore these haters of life. Find yourselves anew in this world that is yours to belong to and not to own, and in the same way it is not theirs either.

You are here for a short time. Your life will pass, and why not live it happily, fighting for what you believe in? Fighting to make the world a better place for those generations that will come after us. So that one day they can turn back and see those people that took this fight to their home, to their hearts, to their streets, and to their authorities and FUCKING WON, and see nothing short of unsung heroes.

Congratulations again, and brace yourselves peoples of the world, for definitely the times they are a-changin’. 

Besos de Despedida

No se por que

Pero cada vez

Que

Intento,

Jalo,

Empujo,

Aprieto,

Amarro,

Suelto,

Forzo,

Dejo,

...tu cada vez mas lejos,

Menos, menos tu...o tal vez nosotros menos nosotros.

Tus besos saben a despedida.

God, The Ultimate Avenger

"I will smote them”  

- God (As portrayed by Lewis Black)  

God is a funny subject.

He's an immense being with His finger put on all cells; full of wrath, full of love (and generally just full of His High, Almighty Self). But I am not here to dwell on Him (or for that matter, a lack of Him).

He's especially queer (i.e. weird) when used as a tool, in particular when used as an ineffable avenger. I find it a fascinating behavior of the believer – when to their benefit or against something they stand against, the religious mind will go from this:

Above: Jesus

To this:

Above: Thor, aka NOT Jesus

It’s really amazing that the inveterate believer will depart so far from the their teachings, in a measly fuck instant. As soon as they are confronted with something they're confused into rejecting or basically something they just really hate…you know...with forgiveness and shit, the switch goes on.

Here are some (crazy) examples:

“I defy any of my co-religionists to tell me that do not laugh at the idea of Dawkins burning in hell."

- Ann Coulter (Devout Believer) on Richard Dawkins (Devout Atheist)  

“Thank God for the tsunami, and thank God that two thousand dead Swedes are fertilizing the ground over there [in Asia]. How many of these two thousand, do you suppose, were fags and dykes? This is how the Lord deals with His enemies. And the Lord has got some enemies. And Sweden heads the list. You filthy Swedes. You filthy Swedes!"

- Fred Phelps, founder of GodHatesFags.com, on the 2004 Tsunami

“God told me to end the tyranny in Iraq”

- George Bush, Jr. on the war in Iraq  

"It may be a blessing in disguise…”  

- Pat Robertson, Evangelical Christian and Presidential Candidate, on Haiti’s earthquake

It's deranged in a way that would make crazy people run for cover. God has been summoned so many times as an Almighty, Righteous (albeit Extremely Biased) Avenger in the support of wars, murder, hate crime, prejudice, and other more succulent and creative items on God's Cosmic Menu of Everlasting Love.

It's the ultimate, ineffable, incredible, infallible, and just outright ridiculous trump card.

Let me be clear: I am not posing a question of whether God exists. That's a question for another day. I'm simply asking: should (insert favorite deity here) be used as a support for immoral causes (e.g. gay-bashing, racism, murder, etc.)? Shouldn't a worthy deity, a grand being be left out of petty human affairs?

My point is the following: a god should be attributed the caring personality of Mother Nature, and not the vindictive persona of Galactus, Devourer of Planets.

Above: NOT God. But pretty kickass

"On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarreling, fighting, burning and torturing one another, for abstractions unintelligible to themselves and to all others, and absolutely beyond the comprehension of the human mind."

Thomas Jefferson