Kathleen Parker: some of my best friends are gay [View All]

[Cocoa]

No shit, she is seriously giving us her gay-friendly creds to support her anti-gay-marriage position.

She goes on to throw in some teleological junk science to make the column even more laughable.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/printedition/chi-0311260018nov26,1,3310131.story?coll=chi-printcommentary-hed

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I figure I'm a fairly typical middle-of-the-road heterosexual married woman when I say: I love gays and, well, the whole gay thing. I love all my gay friends and relatives, not to mention my hairdresser; I love what gays do to urban neighborhoods; I love gay humor, gay style and whatshisname in "My Best Friend's Wedding."

I was what we used to call a "fag hag" when you could still use the term affectionately without fear of offending--before most of today's gays were out of diapers (changed most likely by a mom or a dad, not by Heather's two mommies or Douggie's two daddies). Thanks to my very best friendship with my gay first cousin, I've had many a gay time as a token belle in the heart of San Francisco's Castro district.

In other words, no one who knows me would call me a homophobe.

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Leaving God out of the equation, it is irrefutable that nature had a well-ordered design. Male plus female equals offspring. It is a certainty that male/male and female/female unions don't meet nature's standard. They may occur "naturally" in that one does not consciously elect to be gay, but such unions fall short of any design that matches nature's intentions. It also seems clear that our moral codes and institutions were created primarily to protect that design in the interest of the species and civilization.

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