Respect for Marriage Act

The freakazoids display their sick, perverted hypocrisy in so many ways so many times every day it's hard to choose one that really stands out.

But for pure, head-banging, reality-defying, bizarro-world insanity, it's hard to beat the claim that they're protecting marriage by preventing people from getting married.

And for reality-based outrage distilled to its blindingly perfect essence, you can't beat this from KeninNY at Down With Tyranny:

I know I keep making the point, but maybe I haven't made it enough: If the institution of marriage is in need of defending, there's nobody it needs defending from more than the people who pushed through the infamous Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), a piece of raw sludge and loathing which had no purpose other than to satisfy the boiling inner loathing of all those hate-mongers who seek relief from their own poisoned existences by trying to enforce their misery on others.

How many more "Christian pillars" of their tight-assed slave communities have to be revealed as closet sex maniacs (if not outright sociopaths)? How many more fire-and-brimstone clergymen revealed as wife- and child-beaters, and little-boy-molesters for good measure? The American Crap Christian institution of marriage is basically a warehouse-factory for the preservation and development of raging sociopaths (usually male) and their immediate-family victims (usually female). (Male offspring of course start out as victims, but that's how the system shapes them into into full-fledged wife- and child-beating sociopaths.)

If these people had a shred of sanity or honesty, they would acknowledge that allowing same-sex couples to marry if they wish has absolutely nothing to do with the survival of marriage either as conventionally understood or as they understand it -- as a breeding ground for hatred, social maladjustment, and domestic violence. The more rigorously right-wing and fundamentalist the "defenders of marriage," the more horrific the stories of the women and children who escape from their clutches, or in vastly greater number are swallowed up by it.

The screeching tyrants of Crap Christianity go bonkers anytime anyone suggests as much as tinkering with DOMA, one of their proudest accomplishments, and at the same time a lingering source of shame for the sane people who let themselves be cowed into enacting and signing the thing (about some of whom more in a moment). This is why I find myself in need of a heckuva lot of hats for tipping to the people responsible for this news yesterday.

The Respect for Marriage Act has 91 co-sponsors in the House. No, it's not going to happen this year or next year or maybe not for 10 years. But now there's a place to stand to start pushing back against the haters and the stoopits and the destroyers.

Read the whole thing.