I love John Stewart's The Daily Show. It should be required viewing for everyone. I know many of the "interviews" and new clips are edited to make them funny and may not reflect the entire context, but I think the basic messages are the same, either edited or not. Check out this clip by the very loud (and funny) Lewis Black on this show about Rick Santorum, a Pennsylvania Republican senator. Most of this bit is about the elusive weapons of mass destruction (WMD) with a little about gay issues thrown in.
Although I think labels tend to take away the truth and confuse the issue, Sen. Santorum deserves a label "ultraconservative". He strongly opposes gay marriage and has been quoted of equating gay marriage to incest, polygamy and some other crazy shit. (I'm not into "marriage" of any kind personally--I think marriage is basically "mutual misunderstanding" and just an arbitrary stamp of approval which is more trouble than its worth. However I do believe in equal rights for gay-lesbian couples in ALL aspects. The laws need to change. If Spain, Canada and the Netherlands can do it, why can't everyone else?? They can call it "civil union" or whatever the f*** they want and maybe that will piss off the extreme religious fanatics a little less. The can preserve their "sanctity" of marriage, which is a religious/church issue, NOT a legal/state issue. But I digress....)
Anyway, there are many influential senators and other high-power people out there who share the same non-tolerant views with Santorum. What scares and depresses me even more is not these people, but the people who elected them!! They are, in my opinion, the WMD.
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