The Maple-Syrup Lifestyle
Using words from the article in Digital Spy:
Secretary Margaret Spellings criticised PBS for spending public money on an episode of the kids show Postcards From Buster which looked at farm life and how maple syrup is made. It just so happened that one particular farm was run by two women who happened to be partners.
Spellings wrote to PBS: "Many parents would not want their young children exposed to the lifestyles portrayed in the episode. […]"
[As a nod to more of today's headlines: While it's apprently wrong by this administration's inexplicable "standards" to spend "public money" letting two women show children how maple syrup is made, it's more than acceptable to spend lots of "public money" hiring ultra-conservative commentators to spread propaganda about the current administration's worst programs.]
Is it just me, or are these "christian" wackoes getting out of hand and, possibly, dangerous?
I'd like to pause and make this reminder about legal things in the US:
The US Supreme Court struck down all sodomy laws in June of 2003 as unconstitutional.
It has never been illegal to be gay.
For the past 19 months, it's been legal to do gay.
I know this is a thorn in the sides of those up-tight, ever-so-pious control freaks who know how we should behave, but there it is. Whatever it was these two maple-syrup lesbians might do off camera, it's not illegal, not to mention that, since the farm was in Vermont, they might even have been legal Domestic Partners. Imagine!
Just a few years ago it was the legal & preferred way to keep the homos in line — and jolly good sport at that! — to point out that "sodomy laws are never enforced" days before a raid on a gay bar. Now? It's unconstitutional.
At this point I'm more than a little tired of the antics of these self-righteous animation-phobes who keep confusing "the law" as they believe it's written in their quaint book of creation myths, with the actual law that we use to run our country.
Besides, I think that it's really not my problem if these people lead such pathetic, sex-obsessed lives that they can't see two women standing next to each other without getting all hot and bothered imagining what they're doing with those hot, hot lesbian tongues off camera. Pass that maple syrup, sweetie!