Hypocrisy and Gay Marriage

Anyone who knows me well, knows that I'd rather be called an asshole than a hypocrite. There seems to be something in my past (that I've honestly yet to put my finger on) that really makes hypocrites one of my least favorite types of people. I'd argue that the more you believe in your principles and live your life by them, the less likely you are to do something hypocritical. The most famous hypocrites among us have financial incentives behind their "principles". People like Limbaugh, Hannity, O'Reilly, and Palin profit from riling up the real bigots in this country, while often secretly engaging in the kind of behavior that they protest so passionately. I firmly believe that bigots should be led by real bigots rather than these phony profiteers.

Speaking of hypocrites and bigots, I want to congratulate Rush Limbaugh who just celebrated his fourth marriage. According to Wikipedia, Limbaugh was first married in 1977 and divorced in 1980. In 1983, he remarried again and then divorced in 1990. In 1994, he took vow number three to be there through sickness and in health until death do they part and divorced again in 2004. A few days ago, he took his fourth shot at it.

Now Rush is full of all kinds of uncomfortable golf clap comments about gay people. You know, high school politics like this:

• Democrats will "bend over, grab the ankles, and say, 'Have your way with me'" to African American and gay voters.
• "When a gay person turns his back on you, it is anything but an insult; it's an invitation."
• “…let’s say we discover the gene that says the kid’s gonna be gay. How many parents, if they knew before the kid was gonna be born, [that he] was gonna be gay, they would take the pregnancy to term? Well, you don’t know but let’s say half of them said, 'Oh, no, I don’t wanna do that to a kid.' [Then the] gay community finds out about this. The gay community would do the fastest 180 and become pro-life faster than anybody you’ve ever seen. … They’d be so against abortion if it was discovered that you could abort what you knew were gonna be gay babies.”

So Limbaugh's homophobic credentials are real and valid, but he's also been a strong supporter of Prop 8 and opponent of gay marriage. The main argument being that the sanctity of traditional marriage needs protection. And for once I agree with Rush. Marriage needs protection from serial grooms like him, so let's work on making divorce illegal! Anyone? Anyone?

As Glenn Greenwald said on Salon.com, "As is so often the case, the Traditional Marriage movement is led by people who discard their wives and get new younger replacements the way most people change underwear." Glenn, neglected to mention the ones who end up getting caught with male prostitutes again and again or at gay bars. Let's not forget Newt Gingrich who is now on his third marriage. He divorced his first wife while she was recovering from cancer surgery and married his second wife just six months later. Both his second and third brides were former adulterous mistresses.

So today, as closing arguments for the trial challenging prop 8 occur, I ask this simple question... When do the anti-gay marriage people realize that the people they're following are hypocrites? When do they wake up to the fact that they just need to get over their "icky" factor and realize that gay marriage is about two people loving each other and wanting to publicly commit?

No part of gay marriage is about sex. Everyone knows that sex disappears after you get married.