All posts tagged "Social Conservatives"

A lot less of my life is spent gazing at magazine racks while waiting in line lately, so I would have totally missed this Life & Style cover if Bitch Blog hadn't covered it:

[rebelmouse-image 24749013 original_size="318x500" expand=1]Damn you, Atrios! Here I was, innocently tweeting links that I didn't feel I could come up with a full blog post about, and I see that Atrios is making fun of the Washington Post for printing this pointless screed of Michael Gerson's encouraging young people to get into unhappy marriages headed straight for divorce. Because he cares about your happiness. It certainly has nothing to do with the perverse need of conservatives to stomp out joy and pleasure wherever they see it, nor their especially strong need to do so when young people are being young, which can provoke jealousy if you're not mature and capable enough to look the other way and count your blessings.

This really made me laugh in dismay.

See, what tends to get lost in the mix when prominent social conservatives have teenage mothers and gays and lesbians as a part of their families is that it's not about them, their families and their privacy. It's about the millions of other families around the country who have to deal with the same things, and don't get the benefit of saying "it's a private matter" and being largely ignored by the conservative movement when their family members have to go out into the world and be told that they're heathens precipitating the fall of Western Civilization.