Dan Savage never fails to deliver — and always delivers on-point commentary that serves to hit his critics and opponents where it hurts them the most.
Last night, on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” Savage sat across the table from radical right-wing Republican anti-tax, anti-choice activist Grover Norquist and former GOP Congressman Connie Mack of Florida, and told Maher, “I’m always telling people who say two men can’t make a baby, ‘Anything is possible for God.’ I’m going to keep inseminating my husband and keep my fingers crossed.”
The commentary was funny, but its effect on Tea Party darling Grover Norquist — the often behind-the-scenes activist whose support of George W. Bush went a long way in sending him to and keeping him in the White House — was priceless.
This was Norquist’s expression at the moment Savage made his comment, and a split-second later, smiling uncomfortably — or in disgust, perhaps?
But the real point Savage was on hand to make was that the Supreme Court’s rendering unconstitutional DOMA — the Defense of Marriage Act of 1996 that banned the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages — means he can stop living in fear that his death (as he said, possibly at the hands of those who hate him, or,) in, say, a plane crash, would leave his husband and partner of fifteen years, Terry, and their son without his social security survivor benefits, and the estate tax would render his family financially devastated.
The partial end of DOMA means the federal government now has to recognize his marriage as legal and valid.
By the way, listen for Norquist’s curious decision to decide to talk about school choice in reference to the Trayvon Martin case. Strange.
Enjoy this excellent segment from Maher’s show — the rest of which was not his best, with the exception of MSNBC’s Rula Jebreal, who was exceptional.
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