The Knitting Fiend

I saw this meme at “Lick My Sticks”. It’s not about knitting, except for the fact that it’s circulating like wildfire at knitting blogs.

Naturally, I had to follow the command at the end of the list of reasons. (However, I made one revision.)

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1) Being gay is not natural. Real Americans always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, liposuction and air conditioning.

2) Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall.

3) Legalizing gay marriage will open the door to all kinds of crazy behavior. People may even wish to marry their pets because a dog box turtle has legal standing and can sign a marriage contract.

4) Straight marriage has been around a long time and hasn’t changed at all; women are still property, blacks still can’t marry whites, and divorce is still illegal.

5) Straight marriage will be less meaningful if gay marriage were allowed; the sanctity of Britney Spears’ 55-hour just-for-fun marriage would be destroyed.

6) Straight marriages are valid because they produce children. Gay couples, infertile couples, and old people shouldn’t be allowed to marry because our orphanages aren’t full yet, and the world needs more children.

7) Obviously gay parents will raise gay children, since straight parents only raise straight children.

Gay marriage is not supported by religion. In a theocracy like ours, the values of one religion are imposed on the entire country. That’s why we have only one religion in America.

9) Children can never succeed without a male and a female role model at home. That’s why we as a society expressly forbid single parents to raise children.

10) Gay marriage will change the foundation of society; we could never adapt to new social norms. Just like we haven’t adapted to cars, the service-sector economy, or longer life spans…

Re-post this if you believe in legalizing gay marriage.

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While you’re at it, why not link and trackback to the other knitblogs who posted. That way we’ll see strength in numbers. (My trackback is shown at the bottom of my post.

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My partial list of knit blogs who have participated in this meme:
Yarnaholic, Purls Beyond Price, Zen Knits, Now Norma Knits, Sassy Stitches, Rose by Any,Pixel, Knitting And Nine-O., Bron’s Blog , Purlewe, Bossy Little Dog, Mim’s Knitting Frenzy, Blue Garter, Marfa’s Musings.