Tony Perkins, the homophobic, hate-mongering president of the certified hate group, the Family Research Council, is grasping at straws over Gallup’s latest poll on same-sex marriage, the sixth nationwide poll to show that a majority of Americans now support same-sex marriage.
Perkins wrote via Twitter — which, evidently, is now the place to defend your hate — that, “If Gallup polling guides SCOTUS on marriage, (as it did with Blackmun’s Roe decision), decision could become a deep wound in our nation,” and that “[o]n Gallup’s #marriage poll, it should be noted that same-sex “marriage” was used, not gay “marriage”, homosexual, etc. Words have meaning.”
Yes, Mr. Perkins, words do have meaning.
And frankly, we prefer the term “marriage.” Period.
Because our marriages are no different from yours in value, responsibility, necessity, desirability, worthiness, etc. Frankly, the “my marriage is better than your marriage” is about as valuable a debate as whether blondes are better than brunettes.
Seriously.
The term “same-sex marriage” is the only battle Perkins can even wage now. He and fellow hate-mongering homophobes, like National Organization for Marriage’s Maggie Gallagher and Brian Brown, and Bryan Fischer — who last week said, “gays are Nazis” — are losing the battle for equality, and they know it, and they’re scared.
Of course, they’re turning every single one of those polls into cash cows, begging their “marriage supporters” to “defend marriage,” because “marriage is under attack!”
Meanwhile, in reality, reasonable and intelligent Americans know that a same-sex couple’s marriage is no threat to their own. And if they think that their same-sex headed-household next door neighbor’s marriage is a threat to their marriage, they really have bigger problems.
Oh, and P.S., Mr. Perkins, if you try to use this as “evidence” that the “gay left” are hate-mongers, it won’t work. You’re the one on the attack. We’re just trying to gain equality — not take anything away from anyone. After all, you’re the one who accused us of “terrorism.”