I’ve long said that the upside to any change in the law recognizing “gay marriage” would be that finally, once and for all, we could dispense with the notion of the Magic Gay Couple; more loving, more solid, more just-plain-worthy than all of us dirty imperfect Breeders.
Cable TV host David Tutera and his, er, husband are well on the way toward resolving this cultural problem:
On Tuesday, People magazine reportedTutera is divorcing Ryan Jurica. They married in Vermont in 2003 and had a domestic partnership in California. The two had been together for 10 years and are expecting twins via a surrogate in July.
Tutera filed the divorce papers in Los Angeles Superior Court on April 19, citing “irreconcilable differences,” according to People. He has been separated from Jurica since Jan. 1 and is seeking full custody of the children. Tutera does not want to pay spousal support and requests Jurica take responsibility for the legal fees.
The breakup saga took a wild turn Wednesday when TMZ reported Jurica filed his own papers in Connecticut. He reportedly claims the TV host has a sex addiction and visits prostitutes.
“..gays will not be fully equal in our society until we’ve dispensed with the idea of the Magic Gay Couple.”
That statement is ludicrous, Mitch; I must fisk it until it stops moving.
“gays will not be fully equal in our society”
In what way are they not fully equal now, in so far as the law goes? Gays are men and women who enjoy sex with members of their own gender, but that doesn’t preclude them from participating in normal society unless they choose to wear their “I’m different” on their sleeves.
As to normalizing buggery, well despite what the likes of Davnie and Clark would have you believe, it will never, ever be normal or “equal”, even within the confines of the feverswamp, as evidenced by the anti-gay jokes and slurs that occasionally slip out of the pie holes of the left’s favorite icons. They find homosexual behavior just as disgusting as everyone else, they just don’t have the strength of character to stand up and say so.
” the idea of the Magic Gay Couple.”
There is no Magic Gay Couple, and I object to you even calling it an idea; it’s a lie.
The reality of the gay lifestyle is played out, quite publicly, where homosexualists have laid waste to the opposition. Google “Folsom Street Fair”, “The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence” or any of the plethora of gay day parades that have spread through our largest urban areas like a virus. Observe the pictures taken by the participants to share among their ilk….it’s not the same scene you’ll see in the Star Trib, or the SF Chron.
Your piece does illustrate one aspect that needs a consistent spotlight played on it: trophy kids. I may not like the idea of homosexuality, but seriously, I don’t care what people do to themselves. I do care when their recreational activities affect the society at large, and I can’t think of a more blatent civil offence than introducing kids into a homosexual house.
Once gay marriage becomes legal in MN (and it will; whether it’s this week in the Legislature or via judicial fiat in the near future), I say the TV show “Cops” should feature more (or even some) same-sex domestic disputes. We heterosexuals should name our cause “Dysfunction Equality!”
+1 on BradC’s comment, but count me out of watching “compelling prime time TV” of domestic violence indidents of whatever nature. Ugh.
For what it’s worth, South Carolina’s work suggests that about 11.3% of domestic violence indidencts (see page 14) in that state were homosexuals. Interestingly, female on female assaults/etc. outnumbered male on male.
http://www.statelibrary.sc.gov/scedocs/P9602J/000764.pdf
Best estimates of the % of homosexuals among adults is 3%. For whatever reason, they’re overrepresented in the stats. Disfunction equality would make TV a lot more disgusting than it already is, which is saying something.
That said, I’m not getting cable so I can watch compelling TV like that.