Life is Funny and Sad

Here's a very happy-looking couple:

So what? It turns out that one of them - the black woman with the big smile - is the daughter of a virulently homophobic Christian Republican candidate for United States Senate. They're such a cute couple. (There is a picture of them smooching on the gay.com profile from which the picture is taken - and no, I don't think I'll link to the profile.) It's too bad they don't enjoy the same rights that straight people have. And it's a shame that they have to live with the knowledge that one of the two major political parties wants to keep them second-class citizens and that the candidate considers them "selfish hedonists" for just existing.

Update: Well, they took down the smooching picture. Too bad. And it turns out the cute lesbian pictured above with the nice smile also happens to think abortion is a racist holocaust. And she's actively involved in her father's campaign of hate and fear and has successfully recruited at least one other guilt-ridden (his description, not mine) gay person to volunteer too. Life is sad.

Update 2: Terry, in comments, thinks I'm surprised by this because I'm attributing some innate goodness to gay people. I don't; living in center city Philadelphia off and on for 13 years has taught me there are about the same proportion of stupid gay people as there are stupid straight people. No, I just think it's sad that a woman who is comfortable with her own sexuality is apparently driven by her dad's hateful rejection of who and what she is to embrace another kind of hate and fear.

Here's the original kiss pic:

Yes, she's wearing a HRC anti-Bush button.

Comments

[Terry]

Point taken, Mithras. Here's mine -
I'm continually surprised by seeing bloggers point to homosexuals within the Bush camp (or the republican party in general) and say something like "How can they betray their own kind?" My response is that it's not surprising when any human being does this, and it's even less surprising when a republican does so. They're republicans, for Christ's sake! They eat their young.

[Mithras]

My response is that it's not surprising when any human being does this, and it's even less surprising when a republican does so.

I was sort of making the point that you are, albeit from a different direction and not explicitly: You can't tell from looking that a proud lesbian is also a fervent anti-choice bigot. However, I do remain surprised when people do mean and stupid things. And on the scale of mean and stupid, being a gay, anti-choice Republican is up there, like being a Jewish Nazi.

As I said at your place, I think young Ms. Keyes is motivated by guilt and a desire to please Daddy. Which is sad but understandable. Which is why I thought it went with the title of the post.

[Terry]

Alright, I agree with you again - it is sad.

[paperwight]

I think I am more cynical than even you, Mithras. I am rarely surprised when people do mean and stupid things. I am, however, surprised when people do mean and stupid things which are obviously against their own immediate interest (and not in an attenuated, What's the Matter with Kansas kind of way).

And that's the gay Republican problem in a nutshell.