Quick! Before New York state makes gay people equal! Let’s hear some more ridiculous arguments!
Former New York Giants receiver David Tyree's celebrated catch in the closing seconds of Super Bowl XLII was pivotal to his team's victory. Now out of football, he is trying to claim a last-minute win over another foe -- same-sex marriage.
On the same day that the New York State Assembly approved a same-sex marriage bill, Tyree warned of dire consequences if the legislation becomes law.
The bill's passage would "be the beginning of our country sliding toward ... anarchy," he said
Anarchy? Because of gay marriage? Like the anarchy that took over Massachusetts and Iowa when they passed gay marriage?
Tyree made the comments in a video released Wednesday by the National Organization for Marriage . . . His disapproval of gay marriage is based on religious as well as secular grounds, Tyree said.
Marriage is the only relationship that actually mirrors the relationship with God," he said.
So people are married to God? That’s kind of creepy. And how again would you prove that marriage mirrors this “relationship”? Also, please note that there are NO secular grounds for denying same sex marriage.
He also argued that same-sex parents are ill-equipped to raise a child of the opposite sex.
"You can't teach something that you don't have," Tyree said in the video. "So two men will never be able to teach a woman how to be a woman."
"We're doing God an injustice by not making his heart known to our country."
Aside from being a monstrously stupid thing to say and demonstrably wrong, the implications are broad. So much for all the single parents in the country. Guess we’ll have to take their opposite sex children away. Sorry, ma’am about your husband dying in that car crash. Now step aside while we take your sons away. You will never be able to teach them how to be men.
I’m unclear why an omnipotent being would need these dumbasses to make his heart known to our country. Maybe God should start by making his *existence* known to our country. Then I’d be willing to learn what his heart is.
Until then, I’ll be guided by reason and my own sense of justice, compassion and empathy towards other human beings and be in favor of gay marriage.
4 comments:
You're talking about a football player here and one who had his fifteen minutes of fame in the Super Bowl. No one would even know who this guy was if it wasn't for the one pass he caught. This isn't exactly a Rhodes Scholar. It's not as if these arguments are new and they don't seem to be gaining a lot of adherents that don't already believe this.
For whatever reason, pro athletes tend to be very conservative--financially for obvious reasons. I don't know why they tend to be so conservative socially but I think the culture of sports (especially team sports and, especially football)tends to resemble the military in a way. For one thing, there is a lot of black and white thinking, which makes sense because sports is one of the few areas in which you either win or lose. Players tend to be single-minded. And, generally, pro athletes, from what I can see, come from generally conservative families. There are certainly exceptions but this seems to be the general rule.
So what he said was NOT stupid?
What's more curious here is why anyone would give a flying rat's sphincter about what a guy who caught a football for a living thinks about a social issue.
Seriously--who thinks this guy's opinion is relevant?
I agree it's not relevant and wouldn't have said anything had CNN not posted it on their front page. Can you imagine what they would have posted had they been covering the civil rights era?
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