I’m not sure whose point Louis Marinelli of NOM affiliate OneMan-OneWoman.org is trying to make here, or if he’s making our case more effectively than he’s making his own. In a long-winded piece about something or other, Marinelli says the following:
After all, there will never be marriage equality without full acceptance of homosexuality. A married couple that is comprised of two people of the same-sex will always busy the back of most people’s minds and words will be left unsaid merely out of courtesy and respect.
It’s like what Juan Williams said about Muslims on an airplane. He’s not a racist or a bigot or a right wing conservative but, as he admitted, when he sees a Muslim dressed in Muslim clothing on an airplane, it catches his eye, it makes him nervous.
The same thing is true of same-sex marriage. People will ‘accept’ them much like passengers will accept Muslim passengers on an airplane but no one knows what thoughts are brewing in their minds, behind their smile.
Um, okay. So what we have here is a wingnut accidentally admitting that despite the fact that the law treats other minorities equally, there will always be some people who don’t like it and make things more difficult for those minorities. You don’t usually hear that from a wingnut. But he seems to be suggesting that, in the case of gays, the bigotry in the backs of people’s minds is a good thing, and goes on to complain that the “homoseckshul agenda” is really about normalizing gayness so that people won’t have to face quite so much discrimination.
So…got it. Louis Marinelli, fighting for the wingnut goal of keeping homosexuality from being normalized so that bigots can, I dunno, openly despise us, rather than the unsavory thing they have to do with blacks and Muslims nowadays.
And that’s your edition of Mondays with Marinelli.










These people really have no clue what they sound like to sane people, do they?
“A married couple that is comprised of two people of the same-sex will always busy the back of most people’s minds and words will be left unsaid merely out of courtesy and respect.” — duh! The same thing still goes on today with inter-racial couples. But, who cares what some moronic bigot *thinks*, as long as they keep their stupidity to themselves.
As for the absurd comment about being afraid of people on a plane who are dressed like Muslims. They’re just the people whom I would NOT fear. A terrorist would try to blend in and dress like a westerner. This is just another example of how monochromatic the wingnut ‘thinking’ is.
I’m beginning to wonder if I had more of an effect on the poor lad’s thought process than I thought.
(for reference, I’m Louis’ official “Most hateful member of the glbt community he’s ever encountered”, mostly due to constantly outreasoning his bs with infallible logic to the point where I got his supporters on his own blog to turn on him.)
Sooo… The logic is that even though equality will reduce bigotry to private thoughts and maybe some awkward behavior on the part of the bigot, we shouldn’t even try for it, because less and quieter bigotry is exactly as good as more and overt bigotry?
Makes perfect sense. Also, the sky is chartreuse today. What’s up with that?
Way to go Penny.
This is priceless:
http://muslimswearingthings.tumblr.com/
OMG that is EPIC.
UM, ADORABLE.
http://muslimswearingthings.tumblr.com/post/1392291386/scottish-professor-amanullah-de-sondy-is-wearing
KILT!