well alrighty then...
i don't know why i have to go on and on about my parents. i guess they're just so much a part of me and who i am that i find them particularly interesting and funny. i don't want people to get the impression that i don't like them or think they're bad people. they're just... quirky *grins*
having said that, i now have to totally trash my dad. no...not really trash him. just his beliefs. well, ok, not all of them. mom and dad aren't particularly religious but dad is politically very conservative. my mother is pretty liberal. i'm pretty... mixed up.
however, the day that my dad said to me, in one of his signature outbursts from out of nowhere "the damn government's supporting the gays to keep the population down!"
first i felt my brow furrow as i tried to translate this into a sentence that made sense. then i felt my head cock to the right, like a puppy trying to figure out particularly puzzling behavior. "WHAT?" i asked.
"the government... it encourages people to be gay so that there won't be a big population explosion!" i could only imagine that this was the paraphrased genius of rush limbaugh, who's arguments lack logic like hicks lack teeth: there's enough to chew with, but they still ain't there.
now first i had to ask my dad "is there a gay tax break that i don't know about?" because really, at the time i wasn't really seeing anyone and i figured with a cash incentive i could play gay for the IRS. but there wasn't. it was a lie. damn! i never did quite get out of him what the government did to encourage "the gays" as he calls them. i guess maybe by trying to protect them from violence it's encouraging it? i don't know.
secondly, providing that there is a massive government conspiracy... a network of shadow men lurking in single's bars and the internet passing out gay porn and astroglide... what's wrong with controlling the population? i mean, as long as it's voluntary, are we all so in love with traffic that we want more and more people clogging the freeways? i'm not saying let's get rid of people, but if the government really was so proactive as to try now to tamp down on unneccessary breeding, why would that be such a horrible thing?
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