I’m sorry. I blew it. We were so close to achieving equality, but now it won’t happen. And all because of my overwhelming masculinity.
Someone posted my Peter Barber Gallagher-Sprigg video on Louis Marinelli’s NOM-affiliated Facebook page. It stirred some controversy, but now his readers agree it’s probably a parody. Louis offered this bit of insight about me:
Another thing, I would not be surprised this guy is a homosexual. I don’t know, he doesn’t fit the stereotypical look of a homosexual. He very well could be a heterosexual. I don’t have homosexual radar like they do.
He adds:
You now what they say [sic], they call themselves an “Identifiable Class.” If I can’t identify this guy as being homosexual, because he is mocking the supporters of Prop 8 and the trial, or a heterosexual then they are not an identifiable class.
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We’re busted. Olson and Boies’ strategy in the Prop 8 trial relies on gays being a suspect class. But Louis Marinelli, who isn’t even a lawyer, has destroyed our case. If Louis can’t figure out whether I’m a homosexual in this video, then we can’t possibly be an indentifiable class, much less a suspect one.
Louis (who is not a bigot!) probably thinks I’m like those Jews who resemble normal people, you know, the ones who make his fellow non-bigots say, “Funny, you don’t look Jewish.” Or the ones who say to certain African-Americans, “You don’t sound black.” Remember the good old days when you could dismiss your inferiors with, “They all look alike to me”? People shouldn’t fuck with that.
And you know, when I was reviewing the video’s raw footage I worried that people would criticize me for not acting straight enough. All that hand-waving. And there’s a certain tilt of the head when I say “lock and load” — that’s totally gay.
But it wasn’t enough. And now I’ve ruined everything. Louis Marinelli can’t tell whether I’m a homosexual, so we can never have full civil equality. The man’s a legal genius.
H/T to goodasyou.
This is totally typical of the ultra-anti-gays. Study after study shows that people who know gay people usually are far more tolerant, open to gay marriage, etc. And this shows the hermetic bubble that the crazies live in. The completely assume that a gay person is going to be the height of stereotype–probably wearing sprayed-on skinny jeans, lisping away, uber gay haircut, and any lesbian will be fat, wearing khakis, short hair, and a thousand piercings.
I.e. he has no clue that just like straight people, we run the gamut.
What is amusing, however, is by his own argument he destroys any rational for viewing religion as a suspect class. It’s pretty hard to tell from looking at your average white dude whether he’s christian, atheist, jewish, zoroastrian, etc etc etc. It’s fun when people don’t think their arguments through to their logical conclusion.
Pardon me for being dense, but I’ve read Mr. Marinelli’s comment three times now, and he seems to be all over the place. First he says, “I would not be surprised this guy is a homosexual.” (Emphasis mine.)
Then he goes on to say, “He very well could be a heterosexual.”
So he’s not surprised you’re homosexual, but then concludes that you could “very well” be heterosexual.
The guy must be a genius. I can’t make sense of what he’s saying.
Reading the comments are kind of scary. And shows you how stupid these people are. “An Act is not a law” was pretty awesome.
Good Lord, Rob – you scared me for a second ! I thought you were commenting on the outcome of the highly anticipated Prop 8 ruling !
This just goes to show, once again, that the anti-gay crowd by and far will grasp at any argument that they believe might support their bias. If one argument falls apart, they will just move on to another one. (Though they might go back to the original argument if they think those around them didn’t know that it’s already been torn apart or have forgotten that fact.) This makes their arguments not so much arguments, but rationalizations after the fact.
He might be rationalizing a repressed attraction to you. You’re pretty damn handsome.
Not an indentifiable class? Ummm… did he see the adorable video of you playing with Lucas after the LifeCycle calling him fella?
I am so glad you do what you do. You are a real hero to me!
This whole blog and all others like it is totally redundant. As the activists and marriage defensive activists know, we operate from a hive mind. It’s not like we actually need to communicate our agenda to each other via the media or any form of physical correspondence. I suppose all this public activity serves us well for the sake of appearance.
What makes us so insidious is that, just like you can’t tell if someone is Jewish by the size of their nose, the gay man does not necessarily signal his existence by excessive flamboyance and lesbians cannot always be counted upon to be sensibly shod. Thus we obtain a semblance of humanity.
We know how this will play out already. Recruitment will continue apace and the Homosexual Agenda will become the constitution for the new New World Order.
We’re not an identifiable class. The humans have lost. Victory is ours!
And now for the Martian national anthem…
If it’s not one thing it’s another. First we’re not manly enough, now we’re not gay enough. Straight people are so fickle.
Or we’re hyper-manly or hyper-whatever-the-opposite-is-today.
OMFG you’re gay?
Jeezus. Coulda fooled me.
Grin.
´Tis disturbing, I mean what would this ¨straightlike¨ hysteric do if he realized he´d been showering with the likes of YOU for all of his life at school, military and the local sports club? What arguments can be made against regular Gay people who look and act (well, mostly) like YOU? Better start tatooing triangles on foreheads and don´t forget them lesbos too…verdad?
Better yet, always carry a buff Cocker Spaniel wherever you go (my Old English Sheep Dog, although deceiving, is hard to lift)!
Well, to be fair, it is difficult to tell from your photo whether you are teh gay or not. You pretty much just look like a startled, wet bear in a lake somewhere.
I’ve heard of *bears*, of course, but aren’t they supposed to wear leather chaps or lumberjack shirts or have red hankerchief hanging out of his back pocket or something? It doesn’t look like you are wearing anything.
It’s all so confusing…
You Gotta Girl Up Rob !
What a delightful moron. “Identifiable class” doesn’t mean you can pick us out of a crown, you idiot, it means you can meaningfully lump us all together when discussing us or something we have in common.
You know, like the being gay part.
Phooey. Should be “pick us out of a crowd.”
Guess I spend too much time with queens.