Hallmark Now Selling Gay Marriage Cards

This article was posted by Steve Gilbert on Thursday, August 21st, 2008 at 11:04 am. You can leave a response.

8 Responses to “Hallmark Now Selling Gay Marriage Cards”

1. Reality Bytes
   August 21st, 2008 at 2:06 pm

   Let me know when they come out with one for people who marry livestock would ya!

2. Anonymoose
   August 21st, 2008 at 2:06 pm

   Two things always get me about this gay “marriage” debate. One is that many of the straight people for gay “marriage” don’t believe they need a piece of paper to show their love and commitment (common law marriage, life partner, whatever). So why the gung-ho rush for all the gays to get married……except to make it “legitimate.”

   The other is all the couples being paraded by the media as being together 20, 30, even 50 years, as if gay relationships were more stable than straight. From what I’ve seen in real life is that it’s the exact opposite, gay relationships are much more unstable and shorter term. But hey, I guess it’s just because I’m a close minded bigot that it looks like that.

3. A Mad Pole
   August 21st, 2008 at 3:00 pm

   One more reason to avoid buying anything “Hallmark” sells.

4. U NO HOO
   August 21st, 2008 at 8:10 pm

   “Hallmark’s intent is never to offend”

   Two tuxedos? I am offended.

5. Lipstick on a PIAPS
   August 21st, 2008 at 8:38 pm

   What a bunch of crap. Gay marriage is not about marriage but it’s a subsidy for AIDS. The left doesn’t give a squat about laws so why should they care if they are lawfully married? The big argument in Denver for the Obama coronation is whether they are going to enforce drug laws! This is just a way to force businesses and governments to grant benefits to homosexual couples. In polling data even BLACKS oppose gay marriage by 72%. THAT’s hardly a right wing fringe group dontcha think? If you really want a multicultural answer to homosexual marriage why doesn’t the left just ask the great Iranian Dictator Ahmaminijihad?!?! He just hangs em!

6. englishqueen01
   August 21st, 2008 at 9:52 pm

   “Hallmark’s intent is never to offend”

   Two tuxedos? I am offended.

   You can never be offended. Only gays, blacks, Hispanics and other politically correct groups get offended and are insulted. And only conservatives can be offensive and insult others…only conservatives are the bigots.

   I’ve always said my opposition to gay marriage stems from the very real knowledge that the day will come when churches are closed and faithful persons are arrested for not condoning or supporting gay marriage. It’s already happened in Canada, New Jersey, New Mexico, and Massachusetts.

   Anonymoose is correct in his observations. From Al Rantel, an openly gay talk show host, his opposition to gay marriage:

   The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling by four of the seven justices that the state must allow gays full marriage rights by May 17th raises a myriad of questions that some are afraid to ask in this time of political correctness run amok.

   First and foremost of those questions is who said gays want to get married in the first place? Lets look at the numbers. The highest number of same sex households in America is ironically in Massachusetts, however even then it is under 2 per cent of all households. If gays make up five to ten per cent of the population as is often claimed, one would expect this number to be five times larger.

   As distressing as the state of the American family is today with the high rate of divorce and adultery, the situation is far less stable among gays. This is not a slur against gays as individuals, but rather the reality of what occurs when you have what I call the all gas and no brake environment of male/male sexuality. I should know. I am a gay male.

   To say that unfortunately the gay world is in a general state of hyper-sexuality that is not conducive to relationships which marriage was intended to foster is to put it mildly. Further, almost all of the issues the gay left claims it is justifiably concerned about like property, health, and financial partnership issues have already been dealt with by many states and can be dealt with through further legislation as needed. Such legal changes would encounter far less political opposition.

   Why then the seeming obsession by the gay left and their activist judicial allies like the Massachusetts justices to force gay marriage on an unwilling public?

   There is an answer.

   Forcing a change to an institution as fundamental and established by civilization as marriage is deemed by gay activists and other cultural liberals as the equivalent of the Good Housekeeping seal of approval for homosexuality itself. The reasoning goes that if someone can marry someone of the same sex then being gay is as acceptable and normal as being short or tall.

   While I certainly do not think people should be judged by who they choose to love or how they choose to live their lives, the cultural liberals in America are after more than that. They want to force others to accept their social view, and declare all those who might have an objection to their social agenda to be bigots, racists, and homophobes to be scorned and forced into silence.

   The gay left has still not matured into a position of self-empowerment, but is still committed by and large to the idea that the rest of society must bless being gay in every way imaginable. This includes public parades in all major cities to remind everyone else of what some people like to do in their private bedrooms while in the same breath demanding to be left alone.

   What more certifiable blessing than state sanctioned marriage of two men or two women, even for a group that has offered no indication that most even desire to enter into the kind of commitments that marriage ideally entails, or that serves the real purpose of marriage. Marriage exists in order to create a stable and structured environment for couples to reproduce and raise their offspring.

   And so we have come to yet another chapter in the story of those who would portray themselves as victims in need of another sanction from the state. This time the price of social acceptance of gays is the redefinition of an institution that is thousands of years old and a cornerstone of society. Does that really seem like a wise and prudent choice for America to make at the wish of a handful of judges, and at the behest of those whose real goals are more political than anything else?

   http://archive.newsmax.com/arc.....0806.shtml

   But, then again, we knew it was more about politics and forced acceptance than anything else, right?

7. studmuffin
   August 22nd, 2008 at 3:00 am

   How progressive of Hallmark.

   Maybe it’s because I’m normal, maybe it’s just because I’m a guy, but I pretty much only give cards on Mothers’ Day and Fathers’ Day. This whole line of “Journeys” cards looks about as marketable as New Coke (remember that one?). Is there really a market for cards about anorexia, coming out, and divorce? If there is, maybe I should start my own specialty line of cards for inappropriate situations:

   -Congratulations on your teen pregnancy
   -So you’ve decided to molest your students
   -Because of my bulimia, I will soon be as thin as this greeting card
   -Surprise! Your dad had two families
   -Remember me from the club? Yeah, well…you might want to get tested

   Obviously, many of these will be pop-up cards. If you’re interested in illustrating for me, contact me through SG.

8. DEZ
   August 22nd, 2008 at 10:04 am

   Studmuffin;
   My first day of vacation just had to start with cleaning my monitor!

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