Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Protest at Red Lobster on Sunday

It seems to me that if you're going to discriminate against a whole class of people, like the Mormon church, Rick Warren and the other Prop 8 supporters did in California, you should be required to apply a little intellectual rigor to your argument, especially if you're basing your argument on God's wishes as stated in the Bible.

According to "God," a "man lying with another man" is an abomination. I haven't completed my research yet, but I don't believe he had any objections to women lying together. He also said that eating shellfish is an abomination. If we're going to discriminate against a very large class of people to the extent that we deny them the right to express one of the most basic needs of human nature, their love for another person, based on one or two short lines in the Bible, why aren't we picketing Red Lobster? These people are denying homosexuals the right to marry, then going off to Sunday dinner at Red Lobster! As much as I love shrimp and lobster, I think they should be outlawed. If the religous right is going to deny homosexuals the right to marry based on "God's word" then we should deny them the right to eat shrimp and lobster based on "God's word." It just seems fair and intellectually honest. What do you think?

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