Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Bill O'Reilly: Gay Marriage Might Lead to Turtle Marriages?


Image from source, Raw Story

There is a thin line between offensive and hilarious. I'm not particularly offended that Bill O'Reilly compares my marriage with The Other Half with inter species marriage. He is after all, an idiot. But there is something akin to Godwin's Law at work here.

Godwin's Law basically says that any online debate will eventually draw a Nazi Germany comparison. Well, we need a law about same-sex marriage debates leading eventually to inter species marriage. I can see how some situations could be analogous--if not perfectly--to Nazi Germany. But same-sex marriage is in no way comparable to marrying a dog. Or a turtle. And I would hope that if you can't see the difference, that you can at least see how insulting it is to compare my husband to a freakin' animal.

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O’Reilly: Same sex marriage could lead to goat, dolphin, turtle marriages

You’d think Bill O’Reilly had a fetish for interspecies marriage.

Speaking on Fox News Channel Monday, O’Reilly declared that same sex marriage could lead to individuals marrying — a turtle.

You “would let everybody get married who want to get married,” the pundit remarked. “You want to marry a turtle, you can. . .”

Read more at: Raw Story


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