Conservatives' Gay Problem

Just what is the conservatives' gay problem? Is it that oftentimes their most vocal anti-gay advocates are caught trying to solicit sex in airport bathrooms or from gay hookers? Will it be the huge cache of gay pornography that Fred Phelps' family/church will find when he finally kicks off? Is it that no matter how much they fight against it, years from now, most people will think it's no big deal, and the people still speaking out against it will be lumped with the people who still speak out against interracial marriage?

No. It's none of that.

It's that they're continually making bad choices in the category of names that it makes it hard to take them seriously.

First example is the National Organization for Marriage (they're the ones who did the, "There's a storm coming," ad about gay marriage - look for it and its parodies on Youtube for 10 minutes of fun). Besides choosing a name whose acronym (NOM) is associated with LOLCats eating cheeseburgers, they launched an initiative called, "Two Million for Marriage," abbreviated, "2M4M." In personal ads parlance, this would indicate a gay male couple is looking for another male for a threesome.

Now we have a nascent political party called the Tea Party. Now, being anti-gay isn't really their main focus. The best description of the Tea Party that I've seen is essentially they're the Dixiecrats from 1948. Neither were/are really "for" anything nor do they have any actual policies or even ideas besides, "We lost the last election, and we're racist cry-babies." It's just unlike the Dixiecrats (who formed to stop desegregation of the military and society), they have a big Black bogeyman baptized Barack (alliteration).

However, being from the more insane branch of the conservative side of politics, it's safe to say they're not too fond of gays either. Which is why what they originally called themselves, "Teabaggers," is funny. Teabagging, without going into too much detail, is a sexual activity. Thus Teabaggers are those that engage in that activity.

I don't know about you, but I'm pretty sure that someone HAD to know that, and either he didn't speak up or was ignored, which is pretty stupid. I mean, you're trying to start a political movement. It might be best to stay as far as possible away from sexual euphemisms. That's why various parties in America have been called Republicans, Democrats, Whigs, Bull Moose, etc. and not things like Horny Toads, Hookers, Fruits, or the Intercourse Party. (Although, a case could made that their meetings would have been better attended than the recent Tea Party one).

Which brings me to the latest example of what I'm talking about: The Teabaggers had their meeting in Nasvhille at the Gaylord Hotel.