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To its supporters, the legalization of same-sex marriage is now immortalized in the image of a rainbow flag to the conservative Weekly Standard magazine, however, the moment is best depicted by a rainbow kill-dozer.
Tweeting out a 2,000-word piece from Monday anticipating that the Supreme Court would uphold the right of same-sex couples to marry, the neoconservative magazine simply tweeted: "You Will Be Assimilated."
Attached was a visual aid an image of a giant rainbow steamroller apparently destroying a small town. Driven by a handful of shadowy and presumably gay men, the machine was drawn rolling over small businesses and places of worship under an ominous sky with a dash of lightening.
The casualties of the giant gay steamroller: a church, "Bob's Bakery," "Dom's Deli," a joint labeled simply, "Pizza," Smith & Smith Law Offices, a photography studio, and "St. Jude's Christian Academy." "Corner Cafe" remained intact across the street, but appeared to be the next target in the path of the rainbow juggernaut.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/weekly-standard-gay-marriage-scotus-assimilated
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)What a read...
Betty Karlson
(7,231 posts)If only all neo-conservatives appeared only once a week. Can we assimilate them to the Weekly Standard, please?
Viva_Daddy
(785 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(116,021 posts)and people get on with their lives and same-sex couples get married and settle down and live like all the other married couples - going to work, mowing their lawns, maybe raising kids (who turn out just fine) - at least some of the haters will see they were all in a lather for nothing. In a few years, when the world has not collapsed from all the gayness, hardly anyone will remember why they objected so strenuously.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)But the mossbacks and hard-shells in the fundy/reichwing community aren't going away anytime soon.
Unfortunately for them, most people will not respond well to the notion of "unmarrying" the countless couples whose rights have been affirmed.
Cirque du So-What
(26,039 posts)Had to be said.
0rganism
(23,996 posts)complete with distorted perspective
and yet, somehow, i am also reminded of Monkey Jesus
Hong Kong Cavalier
(4,573 posts)hunter
(38,354 posts)Hong Kong Cavalier
(4,573 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)And the photography studio from all those gay weddings? And Smith & Smith from the prenups?
And how do we know the church at the left isn't an MCC or UU?
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Standard Operational Bullshit from TWS.