Showing posts with label culture wars. Show all posts
Showing posts with label culture wars. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Hope for Homophobic Culture Warriors

Check out this lovely homophobic rant by Oklahoma State Representative Sally Kern as she compares homosexuality to cancer:



Luckily, according to gay scientists, there may soon be a cure for this sad condition:



And even if there is no cure for homophobia, finally and at last we may be witnessing the end of the culture wars!


"We are at the beginning of a new era in which large, secular problems related to war and peace, economics and the United States’ standing in the world will displace culture and religion as the electorate’s central concerns. Divisions on “values” questions will not disappear, but they will be far less important to voters and campaigns.

Just four years ago, we were arguing over whether Bush was reelected primarily because of his strong support from voters who told the exit pollsters that “moral values” had guided their decisions. We parsed the political preferences of those who attend religious services frequently and those who never go — and found the former group rather staunchly Republican, the latter strongly Democratic. It was 1928 all over again. Culture and religion ruled.

In truth, Bush’s victory rested both on 9/11 and on enthusiasm from religious voters. But what’s most important is that 2004, like 1928, is destined to be the last in a long line of contests in which culture and religion proved central to the outcome."