QOTD: Jon Stewart on homosexuality, humanity and shame
"The fact that you would trust the government with tanks and nuclear weapons but not to pass out cheese to poor people, well, you gotta ask..."
"Religion is far more of a choice than homosexuality."
"Semantics is cold comfort when it comes to humanity."
"You talk about the Pro-Life movements being one of the great shames of our nation. I think if you want number two, I think, I think it's that. I think it's an absolute...it's a travesty that people have, uh, forced someone who is gay to have to make their case that they deserve the same basic rights as someone else."
-Jon Stewart to Gov. Mike Huckabee, The Daily Show, 09 Dec 2008
I am often amazed at how very respectful the audience of The Daily Show is. They don't boo; even when Stewart hits a big ideological point, they often stay quiet because cheering would make it more like a game than a discussion. For a show that's about laughing and humor and cheering, it's incredible how quiet and respectful the audience can be when they're hearing someone argue for something they argue against.
Labels: conservative, daily show, gay, government, humanity, jon stewart, marriage, mike huckabee, prop 8, religion, sex
QOTD: Why gay people hate marriage
"One of the joys of being gay and having lots of gay friends was the knowledge that at least half our acquaintances would never encumber us with wedding lists at Peter Jones or the social obligation to spend the better part of a Saturday in enforced merriment in the company of a crew of people we didn’t know and would never meet again, and in a cause — a marriage — whose prospects we secretly knew to be patchy at best, but that we were obliged to celebrate as the beginning of perpetual bliss.
"After the mid-point of one’s life an understanding dawns that there are only a finite number of Saturdays left. Those tempted to invite an older person to their wedding should ponder the possibility that they are asking for the commitment of an appreciable portion of someone’s remaining leisure-time to compulsory jollity on another’s behalf. A marriage can be dissolved. A bachelorhood can be regained. A lost Saturday never can.
"At the core of the celebration of a marriage is a half-lie. This thing may or may not work out — but guests are obliged to pretend otherwise, and in a ceremony that goes on too long and is followed by hours hanging around for a ghastly reception to start, where one will have to explain again, to increasingly drunken acquaintances and for the umpteenth time, that the reason one declines to dance is that one really doesn’t want to dance."
--Matthew Parris, "Hurrah for the new gay 'weddings'. But please don't invite me along"
Labels: gay, marriage, qotd
QOTD: I'll try anything once
Lachlan: every once in a while I think, "I'll try anything once"
DA: fag
Lachlan: how so?
DA: well if you'll try anythng
DA: then you'll try a dick up the ass
DA: thus making you gay
Lachlan: wow
Lachlan: I hadn't thought of that
DA: the logic is inescapable
--20070530
Labels: anal, da, gay, qotd
