One of the reasons I’m so certain that the battle for LGBT equality will be a successful one is because of the well-documented generation gap in support for LGBT issues, including marriage equality (even among evangelicals!).
But you can’t win ‘em all. Check out the video below — these two young Oklahoman women are just so gosh darn crazy about Rick Santorum that they wrote him a country pop song!
Still, all is not lost. In just a few years, these kids will graduate from high school and move out of mom and dad’s house. If they attend university, they’ll be exposed to all sorts of different people of varying cultures, religions, races, orientations, identities, and political beliefs that will challenge and expand their worldview. (No wonder their man Rick hates it so much!) If either of them decide to pursue studies in music, there’s no way they’ll be able to avoid this. (My education is in music, so I know from whence I speak.) So the odds are good that they won’t be singing this tune for long.
And if they still are in ten or twenty years? Frankly, the world will have left them — and everyone else who still thinks God wrote the Bill of Rights or that married same-sex couples should be forcibly divorced — so far behind we won’t even be able to hear the strumming of their guitars.
The next generation’s “Goldwater Girls.”
When I was 14 I got worked up about Nixon just like these kids. Within 4 years I had voted for Shirley Chisholm and George McGovern. Go figure.
OMG! The cast of “Up with People” were allowed to breed…
That’s funny; when I went to college I became a staunch conservative… in the Republican paradise that is Connecticut.
God gave the Bill of Rights? For some reason with the cutting from sign waving to each of these kids playing an instrument in a band I was reminded of Hanna Barbera Saturday morning cartoons from the 70s.
It’s hard for me to watch two young women sing his praises knowing how little regard he seems to have for women in this country. It’s weird to hear about Rick bringing the country back to the way it was when Reagan was president from them, too, since they weren’t even born.