This deals with the subject of gay marriage, but whatever your stand on this issue, I think you will agree that this is some seriously warped logic.
I was having a discussion with a guy… just a guy I know, I don’t really like him that much and I like him even less now… I just happened to see him standing outside his house and I stopped to say hi. It was back during the last round of votes in California, when once again the forces of religious closed-minded bigotry won out over fairness and equality. But this was before the vote had taken place.
I made the mistake of asking him what he thought of the whole thing. And this was his take on it;
He launched into a fictional story. He asked me to suppose that he met some guy at work, and he liked the guy, they got along, they had stuff in common. But then he wondered aloud what would happen if the guy said, “Hey, we are both married. Maybe we can all go out for dinner sometime.”
So this mental midget goes on with his hypothetical musings. He sounds a bit horrified as he describes how he and his wife show up at a restaurant and the other couple is two men.
By this time a neighbor of his that I didn’t know had joined us. We exchanged glances and waited for the punchline. Well, it turned out that was the punchline. That was all there was to the story.
Now I know this guys wife, and I do like her. And I know she isn’t a homophobe. And the neighbor, by the look on his face, was as baffled as I was. We tried to ask questions to get some clarification. But that was it. He was somehow convinced that being lured to a public place under the false assumption that he was meeting a straight married couple was some sort of horrible fate.
I tried to get him to explain how this would be bad. Would people assume that he was gay, even though he was with his wife? Would it hurt his standing in the community to be seen to associate with a gay couple? Was the gay going to rub off on him? Would he contract sin through close contact? Or did he just think that gay people should have to wear special t-shirts or get a tattoo on their faces so straight people wouldn’t accidentally like them?
Because he had started the story by saying he liked the guy. And this was his story. By now the neighbor and I were starting to tease the guy. It was impossible not to. He invented a story, decided that the guy in it was someone who he got along with, but he just couldn’t wrap his head around the idea of actually doing anything with him once he found out the guy was gay. He couldn’t articulate why it bothered him or what was wrong with it. He couldn’t explain how it would have any negative impact on him at all.
But he wasn’t willing to think about it any more deeply than that.
You can’t argue with that kind of lack of logic.
Pouring My Art Out 
So all those blokes going to sports games together, according to this bloke’s logic, must be gay! Which probably includes him… I hope he’s not had kids.
You were right. I love this piece but hate it all at the same time. Imagine being tricked into actually liking a gay person?! What is wrong with people? By the way I have been surrounded by straight people my whole life. I have seen straight people kissing, holding hands, having families. It hasn’t made me straight. The idea that the reverse is true and that gay will somehow rub off on the straight people that I am exposed to is ridiculous. It wouldn’t be any more contagious than red hair and freckles!
oh, I also did that post where I asked if people would rather live next door to a nice married gay couple or: skin head Nazis, white supremacists, crack dealing gang bangers, and some other types of people, like a test of common sense.
Ha! And did most people pass?
Not many people took it, but a lot of people got what I was trying to say… I will see if I can find that post…
Yeah do
I did
🙂
whee
ooohhh… it is called: A test of common sense…
You can use any of these on your blog if you want.
Reblog you?
If you want… I’m not saying you need my help. But an American point of view.
Would you like to write a whole new guest post? And be added to my contributors’ list of awesome page?
after this is over if you remind me
Ok yay!
yay indeed
or read: so let me get this straight
or: Putin on the Ritz… part one
or: slippery slope
or: Gay equality… the best question ever…
Man, I am awesome… I forgot how many of these posts I have done… type the word ‘Gay’ in my search bar, I dare you…
You, my friend, are an awesome rainbow man
When I say most of my friends are gay, that isn’t an expression. I am so saddened by California’s stand on gay marriage. There are states in the Midwest that voted for it, dammit!
Maybe he thinks gays should only be allowed in restaurants catering for gays? Or he thought the guy should warn him he was part of a gay couple before he accepted the invitation? I don’t understand the whole concept of this story, the guy is a lunatic.
That is the whole concept…
The mind boggles
I know my mind does…
Never played Boggle though
I am good at that game.
🙂
This is brilliant! Let’s all pass judgment without even thinking or forming an opinion about it! YEAH!
Ignorance unite!
It must be so easy to go through life like that… sigh…
Easy? I think it’s also pretty scary. Can you imagine, that you’re so ignorant that you can’t even comprehend the idea of TRYING to figure something out.
I think people like that are seriously intimidated and threatened by ANYTHING out of the ordinary.
Well thinking about stuff makes my brain hurt… but I do take your point.
Pardon me for insulting this guy publicly, but he is an idiot and a bigot, and should be spanked. Hard. By a gay man! I bet he would secretly love it! 😎
Oh my…
You know what psychologists say about homophobes…
I do… and I read the review and it is awesome! Thank you so much.
You are more than welcome, my friend. I am happy to help — If I’d realize I’d be first, I’d have gone sooner. I will for the next volume. Congrats!
Cue George Takei with a paddle? 😯
Oh… you caught that did you?
Maybe he was just supremely disappointed, to the point of disgusted, that he wouldn’t be able to stare at the other man’s wife’s rack during dinner. Ya just never know. 😉
You always put a nice spin on things.
smooches, Smoochy.
Ha.
Arguing with that kind of logic is easy. The hard part is keeping it up without slapping him seven kinds of silly.
I was tempted to do that, but if I slapped every idiot I run up against, my hands would be sore.
I would have LOVED it if when the other neighbor walked up, you said “oh, speaking of that, I’d like you to meet my husband [name]”
It still wasn’t legal… in fact it still isn’t here in the progressive, liberal state of Californiwhatheheck. But that would have been awesome.
Yeah!
I would have married the neighbor to make that joke.
You could just SAY it, for the same effect.
oh… right…
One of my favorite quotes ever-
I hate the word homophobia.
It’s not a phobia.
You’re not scared.
You’re an asshole.
-Morgan Freeman
Sweet chicken nibblets.
I want the t shirt now. ..what can it say?
At the risk of sounding presumptiousous…presumptuous… presumpshouuss… like an ass, my mental picture of you precludes you having to wear the shirt so as not to take anyone by surprise… Ha?
I want the shirt, and it can say I, then a big heart and then cock. And a face tattoo, I want one too. Don’t deny me my rights to have my face tattooed and to wear silly tee shirts 😀
You will be the scarlet tattoo’d Pimpernell… in a sporty shirt!
Wonderful, I shall
awesome
Wow, people are amazing. Those are usually the people who have some seriously demented skeletons in the closet and/or repressed homosexual feelings.
Or he is just a jerk who isn’t that bright and lets his church or friends do his thinking for him.
Oh the horrors! To be seen in public with your wife and two other guys! Can there be anything more embarrasing than that?
How weak does your character have to be to worry about something like that?
i wonder if he has be abused by a male?
I think it is just cronic self-abuse. HA!
ahaha!
word.