Sometimes I just Don't Get It
Dec. 9th, 2006 07:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
omorkaOkay, I sort of understand the rad-righters who have been upset at Dick Cheney's acceptance of his lesbian daughter from the get-go; they're just being internally consistent. And I sort of understand how there might be many right-wingers who are content to just sort of sweep that under the rug, since lesbians aren't quite as icky as Teh Gay; after all, nothing they can do to each other can really count, right?
And that last is sort of a perennial argument of college-aged sexuality - if a woman is a sexually-active lifelong lesbian, if she never inserts a real tab Y into her slot X, is she still a virgin? Given the sort of contorted arguments teenagers who have made those stupid abstinence pledges go through to claim that they're still virgins despite spending long hours getting each others' rocks off, one might even imagine that your average radical Christian right-winger might well agree that, though a sinner, she is in fact still a virgin, never having known the touch of a man in the Biblical sense.
Now, I don't know anything about Mary Cheney's personal history, nor do I want to. But if she has, indeed, been a lifelong lesbian, if she's never walked on the straight side, then I am exceptionally puzzled by the Christian Reich's reactions to her impending baby. I mean, she's in a long-term relationship, but she hasn't engaged in the 'abomination' (in their eyes) of gay marriage, since her state doesn't permit it; you could say she's engaged, I suppose, since if their state ever changes its mind I'm sure they'll get hitched post-haste. And while her partner isn't going to have a genetic stake in her child, I'm sure she'll be an active and engaged parent. It's not like the kid will grow up in a broken home, or won't have any male role models; that's a pretty close family, and while I'd be terrified to have Dick Cheney as my grandpa, the kid won't know any better.
And only a real Scrooge could possibly be pissed off about the virgin Mary being pregnant during Advent.
And that last is sort of a perennial argument of college-aged sexuality - if a woman is a sexually-active lifelong lesbian, if she never inserts a real tab Y into her slot X, is she still a virgin? Given the sort of contorted arguments teenagers who have made those stupid abstinence pledges go through to claim that they're still virgins despite spending long hours getting each others' rocks off, one might even imagine that your average radical Christian right-winger might well agree that, though a sinner, she is in fact still a virgin, never having known the touch of a man in the Biblical sense.
Now, I don't know anything about Mary Cheney's personal history, nor do I want to. But if she has, indeed, been a lifelong lesbian, if she's never walked on the straight side, then I am exceptionally puzzled by the Christian Reich's reactions to her impending baby. I mean, she's in a long-term relationship, but she hasn't engaged in the 'abomination' (in their eyes) of gay marriage, since her state doesn't permit it; you could say she's engaged, I suppose, since if their state ever changes its mind I'm sure they'll get hitched post-haste. And while her partner isn't going to have a genetic stake in her child, I'm sure she'll be an active and engaged parent. It's not like the kid will grow up in a broken home, or won't have any male role models; that's a pretty close family, and while I'd be terrified to have Dick Cheney as my grandpa, the kid won't know any better.
And only a real Scrooge could possibly be pissed off about the virgin Mary being pregnant during Advent.
