As soon as I get done kissing you, I’m going to scare some Minnesotans
You read it in the Strib first. Katherine Kersten tells us today, “A proposal to preserve marriage as the union of one man and one woman in Minnesota’s Constitution is one of the biggest issues our state will face in the next legislative session.” Never mind education, tax policy, transit, bird flu, foreign terrorism threats, or energy costs, don’t forget it’s the gay married terrorists that are out to kill your way of life.
I shouldn’t be surprised at anything Katherine Kersten says, but today I have to admit she’s topped herself. As if we didn’t have to worry about all the dangerous Mexicans who want to come here to pick our fruit and clean our houses, now an even more insidious invasion is being fomented in Canada. Nope, health care for all wasn’t bad enough. And they don’t even want to stop at good strong beer. And, if the fact that many of them speak French doesn’t make you afraid, you ain’t seen nothing yet.
Those goddam Canucks don’t legally descriminate against gay people. They’re going to hell and they want to take your children with them. And who does Kersten hold up at the defender of Canadian (and your) virtue? The Catholic Church. Yup, that Catholic Church–you know the one that’s been hiding pedophile priests for the past several centuries.
Bishop Fred Henry of Calgary is coming to the Twin Cities this week to tell us all about it. He’s one of the bishops who has threatened Canadian Members of Parliament with denial of communion in retaliation for their votes on gay rights to marriage. As Kersten further quotes him, “Canadians who believe in the historic definition of marriage, who believe that children need a mother and father, are now the legal equivalent of racists.”
Now that’s not exactly true. But exact truth won’t work, if your object is to scare people and inflame your voting base. What is true is that people who would deny rights to gays are the legal equivalent of people who would deny rights to people of a different skin color. Remember when it was illegal for a white to marry a black? I do.
If you don’t, have a look at our own 14th Amendment. Minnesota can pass all the anti-gay legislation Kersten and her ilk can scare us into, and some activist judge who can read the U.S. Constitution will just have to strike it down. And won’t the “base” have fun with that? Politics of divisiveness, welcome to Minnesota. You’re welcome here.
Can we at least ask that the Strib move this preposterous idiot to the Pandering to the Churchgoers page on Saturday, or, at the very least, bury her next to the bitchy gays Claude Peck and Rick Nelson in the Sunday Signature section? Her column’s very presence on the news pages denegrates the efforts of the good reporters and columnists who toil there.
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