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Lauren

I can’t help but quote this piece at length:

The next time someone calls abortion a moral choice, I will ask him the results of his last prostate exam, or her the results of her pelvic exam. I expect they’ll tell me it’s none of my business. To which I’ll reply, “exactly.”

The next time someone argues against gay marriage, I’ll ask him or her when the last time he or she made love with their spouse. I expect they’ll tell me it’s none of my business. To which I’ll reply, “exactly.”

The next time somebody defends pharmacists refusing to dispense birth control pills, I’ll ask them what prescription medicines they are currently taking. I expect they’ll tell me it’s none of my business. To which I’ll reply, “exactly.”

The next time someone says that Terri Schiavo was murdered, I’ll ask them if they’ve made arrangements for a local government official to be in their loved one’s hospital room making final decisions. I expect they’ll tell me it’s none of my business. To which I’ll reply, “exactly.”

The next time some legislator proposes banning sex toys, I’ll ask them what method of masturbation they prefer. I expect they’ll tell me it’s none of my business. To which I’ll reply, “exactly.”

The next time someone talks about family values, I’ll ask them to tell me what the last thing they disciplined their child over. I expect they’ll tell me it’s none of my business. To which I’ll reply, “exactly.”

We cannot allow our panic at being out of power to lead us to separate abortion rights, gay rights, end-of-life-decision rights, parenting rights, medical rights from the basic human right to live free of someone else butting their nose into our personal lives.

Exactly.

12 thoughts on Nunya Business

  4. True. But I bet some of them would love to tell you about the last time they disciplined their child, for example. And a surprising number of people like to tell comparative strangers about their medical problems.

  5. The next time someone compares a prostate to a “fetus” I will call them screwed up.
    The next time someone argues for homosexual marriage I will ask why not have multiple marriage partners or pediphiles marrying kids?
    The next time someone says Terri S was no one’s business I wonder about a cheating spouse deciding whether you should die or not when you can’t speak for yourself.
    And….gee I guess family values are passe’…..
    “We cannot allow our panic at being out of power to lead us to separate abortion rights, gay rights, end-of-life-decision rights, parenting rights, medical rights from the basic human right to live free of someone else butting their nose into our personal lives.”
    No…but you can always throw a pie or salad dressing at a conservative!

  6. “No…but you can always throw a pie or salad dressing at a conservative!” Yeah, because that dumbass represents the wishes of all liberals. Try again.

  8. Wow, cons, that was completely unconvincing. Why don’t you invite the neighbors over to watch you fuck your wife and offer criticisms instead of leaving lame comments over here?

  9. That is the perfect example of how conservatives say they are for small government and personal rights… except when it isn’t about money.

  11. Hey. Thanks for picking up the manifesto. I guess my response to the conservative would be that s/he is proving my point: in the larger piece, I speculated as to why people butt into other people’s business. It has a lot to do with fear–but not of what you think. The con who made the comments also didn’t come up with much of anything that didn’t sound like wingnut talking points. Somehow, gays are pedophiles? Aren’t most pedophiles heterosexual? Therefore, shouldn’t heterosexual marriage be banned? Their logic escapes me.

  12. “You can always throw pie or salad dressing at a conservative.”

    That “dumbass” may not represent the wishes of all liberals, but he (she? they?) certainly made my day.

    And, why not allow multiple marriage partners or pedophiles marrying kids? BECAUSE, idiot, multiple marriage is unfair to the multiple people who have to share one person, and OBVIOUSLY, pedophiles marrying kids would be harmful to the kids (that’s why sex with children is ILLEGAL) and would deprive those kids of the right to choose when and whom to marry, because they are not capable of making an informed decision at that age.

    Conservative logic, I think, is a contradiction in terms.

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