Open letter
Aug. 25th, 2008 10:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
changeyourstars8"Now parents will need to steer their kids from Hallmark's section of the greeting card aisle and away from its previously heart-warming movies for fear that they too will push homosexual messages." —- Wendy Wright, President of Concerned Women for America
Greeting cards. She's panicking over greeting cards. Hallmark has the absolute audacity to acknowledge that gays and lesbians, um, exist, and so they make cards for them. Cue Wendy and the other morons flipping out and bleating the usual line of "OMG think of the children!!!!"
Wendy, let me tell you something that really ought to scare you. Statistically, my daughter has a pretty good chance of being straight when she grows up. But if she turns out to be lesbian, or bi? I don't care. The only concern I have about that is that she'll become the target of assholes like you, but I'm betting there'll be far fewer of you by the time she gets old enough to worry about all this.
Because I grew up in the Bible belt, in one of your oh-so-valued nuclear families. Mom, dad, two kids. We even had a white picket fence in the backyard. Technically, I should be your base. And instead I think you're a bigoted idiot.
Your numbers are shrinking and you can see it coming, can't you? That other states will eventually follow Massachusetts and California's lead, that someday most people in this nation will look at "ewwwww, gays shouldn't even exist in my pure and untainted presence, let alone get married" holdouts like you with pity.
You're just merrily skipping down the path to extinction and it can't happen soon enough. I wonder if Hallmark makes a line of "Have fun on your way to irrelevance!" greeting cards. In the meantime, I suppose I'll have to make do with buying a bunch of the gay and lesbian themed ones and doing my own small part to flood your office.
Greeting cards. She's panicking over greeting cards. Hallmark has the absolute audacity to acknowledge that gays and lesbians, um, exist, and so they make cards for them. Cue Wendy and the other morons flipping out and bleating the usual line of "OMG think of the children!!!!"
Wendy, let me tell you something that really ought to scare you. Statistically, my daughter has a pretty good chance of being straight when she grows up. But if she turns out to be lesbian, or bi? I don't care. The only concern I have about that is that she'll become the target of assholes like you, but I'm betting there'll be far fewer of you by the time she gets old enough to worry about all this.
Because I grew up in the Bible belt, in one of your oh-so-valued nuclear families. Mom, dad, two kids. We even had a white picket fence in the backyard. Technically, I should be your base. And instead I think you're a bigoted idiot.
Your numbers are shrinking and you can see it coming, can't you? That other states will eventually follow Massachusetts and California's lead, that someday most people in this nation will look at "ewwwww, gays shouldn't even exist in my pure and untainted presence, let alone get married" holdouts like you with pity.
You're just merrily skipping down the path to extinction and it can't happen soon enough. I wonder if Hallmark makes a line of "Have fun on your way to irrelevance!" greeting cards. In the meantime, I suppose I'll have to make do with buying a bunch of the gay and lesbian themed ones and doing my own small part to flood your office.
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Date: 2008-08-25 04:36 pm (UTC)Anyone else want to join the fun?
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Date: 2008-08-25 06:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-25 06:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-25 06:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-25 07:58 pm (UTC)"No, no dear...it's just the bigoted jerkwads. Let's go inside and watch Velvet Goldmine like a good little girl."
I saw that and I soooooo wanted to send them a card or two. But then why waste a perfectly good card on a bitch like her when I can send it to Mikey, one of my former co-workers over at 3, who just got engaged to his boyfriend of six years?
They're flying out to San Fransisco in May for the wedding.
I'm sure they would appreciate it much more the Wendy would.
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Date: 2008-08-25 08:13 pm (UTC)