Last night my father mentioned something that I’ve been stewing on all night and it’s really upset me and made me furious.
A woman I have known my entire life that is acquainted with my family fairly strongly has apparently announced that she’s voting no in the marriage equality plebiscite vote. To set the tone, this woman is someone I don’t like and to use a cliched term, she’s just plain toxic.
Why does her vote on this matter to me so much? She is free to vote how she likes but there are some circumstances that are pissing me right off. She is using her religious beliefs to say no but this is a woman who is on to her third husband. Doesn’t the bible say “marriage is a lifetime commitment.” So she’s broken that one. Then there is the revolting detail that husband number 2 was molesting her daughter for several years and she KNEW ABOUT IT! Her argument was that she loved him.
She is the kind of person that is desperate for validation so having a husband at the cost of her daughter’s well being was something she could live with. Eventually he went to jail and she divorced him.
How on earth, in her tiny little brain, can she be ok with essentially handing a pedophile her daughter on a platter but then not ok with two consenting adults of the same gender getting married?
7 Comments
Colin
She’s a sick puppy indeed. She needs to be slapped over the head with the bible. HARD!
Greg
Discrimination is quite simple for simple-minded folk. No reason to stew over blatant prejudice. In states here we had thrice-divorced woman who had come to Jesus to show her prejudice here denying same-folk marriage in the state of Kentucky. Hypocrisy among some Christians stands as their top most idiotic lifetime achievement.
MikeyDE
There certainly are a lot of her kind here in the US. I see it everywhere, not just in sex or matters of the heart. Stealing, cheating, moving violations, parking in the handicapped place, being rude…. I call it self-righteousness: “I’m right and, even when I know intellectually I’m wrong, it’s okay because I’m me. Look at me, I’m going to make a statement so everyone knows how right I am.” Religious bigots are particularly prone to self-righteousness but they are not alone.
MikeyDE
Oh, and most of the people who loudly proclaim God’s laws in these matters, haven’t darkened the threshold of a church in decades.
YS
The rights of the minority’s should not be voted on by the majority.
William
Look at all the people who voted for Trump and have all the audacity to still believe in him. “Forgive them, for they know not what they do”, altho’ I’d probably have something to say to the authorities about that pedophile!
jack
just saying….it’s not a vote – it’s a survey.