Browsing a bit out at AMERICAblog I found this nugget:

Speaking of gay marriage, the Senate Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing on to discuss the gay bashing amendment on Thursday. The notoriously anti-gay Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS) will chair the hearing on “The National Consensus to Protect Marriage: Why a Constitutional Amendment is Needed.”

I’m a little confused about who they are protecting marriage from….and how they are going to protect it. This AP piece from November 2004 hits the nail on the head….what about divorce? Seems that is the biggest problem facing marriage these days:

“When you talk about protecting marriage, you need to talk about divorce,” said Bryce Christensen, a Southern Utah University professor who writes frequently about family issues.

While Christensen doesn’t oppose the campaign to enact state and federal bans on gay marriage, he worries it’s distracting from immediate threats to marriage’s place in society.

“If those initiatives are part of a broader effort to reaffirm lifetime fidelity in marriage, they’re worthwhile,” he said. “If they’re isolated — if we don’t address cohabitation and casual divorce and deliberate childlessness — then I think they’re futile and will be brushed aside.”

Don’t think all those issues aren’t on the theocrats agenda. It’s the nefarious, hidden part of the agenda….and they’ll use the gays to confuse the issue. But all the straights better realize, it ain’t just about us.

And one other thing, Sam Brownback is so rabidly anti-gay…why, you have to ask, why is Sam Brownback such a hateful homophobe?

Which inspired me to dash off this little poem in the comments:

First they came for the homosexuals and transgendered, and I said nothing, because I was not a homosexual or transgendered.

Then they came for the swingers and fetishists, and I said nothing, because I was not a swinger or fetishist

They they came for the cohabitators and the divorced, and I said nothing, because I was not cohabiting or divorced.

Then they came for the married men who masturbate to internet pr0n, and there was no one left to speak up for me.

(with apologies to Pastor Martin Niemöller and anyone who suffered under the Third Reich… with worries about all of us watching the ascendence of the Fourth…)