http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/12/12/glenn-beck-wouldnt-care-about-gay-marriage-except-liberals-are-trying-to-destroy-his-marriage-all-the-time Comments On: Glenn Beck Wouldn't Care About Gay Marriage Except Liberals Are Trying to Destroy His Marriage All the Time by Paul Constant en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Sat, 18 May 2013 15:15:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
Oh, wasn't he that guy that got on TV who was struck down awhile ago...his empire in ruins and magic ring of power missing? Did someone find that ring? Is it a decoder ring? Will it make sense of what he's saying?
Posted by ArtBasketSara]]> Thu, 13 Dec 2012 11:36:20 -0800 The Stranger also bullshit.
Posted by D310]]> Thu, 13 Dec 2012 03:24:43 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Seattle14]]> Thu, 13 Dec 2012 01:47:55 -0800 The Stranger
What belief? What the fuck is he talking about?
Posted by Amanda]]> Thu, 13 Dec 2012 01:30:16 -0800 The Stranger Posted by venomlash]]> Wed, 12 Dec 2012 22:14:29 -0800 The Stranger
And when people repeatedly mention how much they don't care about something it means they do care and they have an agenda and a (varyingly) sophisticated set of rhetorical devices they're about to unleash.

I don't care about peanut butter* but generally speaking chunkiness is gross**, and when someone who, like me, loves peanut butter won't defend my abhorrence of chunkiness, I'm deeply offended, except I don't care,...

* I have gay friends - I think I'm playing soccer with them tomorrow night.

** It's an abomination before the Lord, (not that I care).
Posted by pinch-flat]]> Wed, 12 Dec 2012 20:21:42 -0800 The Stranger Posted by floater]]> Wed, 12 Dec 2012 19:18:18 -0800 The Stranger Posted by J-Haxx]]> Wed, 12 Dec 2012 19:16:50 -0800 The Stranger Posted by JDR]]> Wed, 12 Dec 2012 18:04:38 -0800 The Stranger
But then he complains that liberals won't stand up for his beliefs. Why wouldn't they if he believes gay marriage is fine?
Posted by Free Lunch]]> Wed, 12 Dec 2012 18:01:41 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Indy]]> Wed, 12 Dec 2012 17:33:22 -0800 The Stranger
Rights and beliefs aren't the same.
Posted by dwightmoodyforgetsthings]]> Wed, 12 Dec 2012 17:18:50 -0800 The Stranger Posted by ScrawnyKayaker]]> Wed, 12 Dec 2012 17:11:34 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Fnarf]]> Wed, 12 Dec 2012 17:10:21 -0800 The Stranger
Except the one with "karma." That at least *sounds* like it would be fair and kinda make sense. Nice idea, anyway. Which one is that, Buddhism? I'll give Buddhism an honorable mention.
Posted by ScrawnyKayaker]]> Wed, 12 Dec 2012 17:09:03 -0800 The Stranger
I was about to ask if anybody had any idea what he was actually trying to say, but I think you nailed it.
Posted by Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn]]> Wed, 12 Dec 2012 16:57:23 -0800 The Stranger
Actually blip, they are totally tokens; you don't exchange them so much as line them up on the moral high ground so that everyone in the arcade can tell you're going to be playing "I am not a bigot, see" until you set a high score.
Posted by Fudge Pac Man]]> Wed, 12 Dec 2012 16:54:44 -0800 The Stranger Posted by ignatz ratzkywatzky]]> Wed, 12 Dec 2012 16:49:59 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Stabs]]> Wed, 12 Dec 2012 16:43:47 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Max Solomon]]> Wed, 12 Dec 2012 16:40:50 -0800 The Stranger
Also: "having gay friends" is not social currency that you can exchange for believing gay people do not deserve full equality. I don't give a fuck if you have gay friends. They are not tokens; they are human beings, and if you really considered them friends you would not speak of them in such dehumanizing terms. It is outrageously patronizing to even bring it up in this context, because you imply that hating gay people is the default setting that you have somehow miraculously overcome, and are now congratulating yourself for it. Fuck off.
Posted by blip]]> Wed, 12 Dec 2012 16:30:14 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Pope Peabrain]]> Wed, 12 Dec 2012 16:28:51 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Leishalynn]]> Wed, 12 Dec 2012 16:27:53 -0800 The Stranger
Who is attacking his marriage? And what exactly does he need others to defend? His right to practice his religion in his home or church? Oh wait, he can do that freely. So maybe his right to force that religion on other legislatively? Or eliminate access to birth control and emergency contraception for himself/his wife/everyone else? His right to ban abortion for his wife and all women? Or his right to force women to have undergo a transvaginal ultrasound in order to get one? I wish he could articulate the actual reasons his marriage or his rights need defending. But he can't because he's full of shit and the only defense needed here is for everyone else who is at risk of or being oppressed by the beliefs of him and others like him.
Posted by Queen of Sleaze]]> Wed, 12 Dec 2012 16:27:00 -0800 The Stranger
But that would have required specificity instead of disconnected, free-floating paranoia, and Beck might have been (shudder) called out for faulty data.

Yet he has the nerve to claim that liberals can't stand up to debate.

Preaching to choir here. I know. Except, I guess, that it's really venting to the choir.
Posted by Clayton]]> Wed, 12 Dec 2012 16:22:53 -0800 The Stranger