Dismal stats

The Pompotous has a few words about some DISMAL statistics about Mississippi: the county in which I now reside voted 79-21 in favor of banning gay marriage. (As opposed to 57-43 in the county the Pompotous favored in Kentucky.)

What does that mean? It means that 4 out of every 5 voters in Hinds county are idiots.

The issue comes down to a very simple question: is marriage a legal contract, or is marriage a sacrament from some mumbo-jumbo superstition? (No, the Pompotous is not the first to put forward this argument, nor will I be the last, despite the dirt-simple and irrefutable rightness of the thing.)

If marriage is a legal contract -- and it is, ask any of the thousands and thousands of bloodsucking lawyers making money off of it -- then the government should be held accountable for not discriminating. How do you think an amendment to describe marriage as the solely the union of two black people would go over? Or an amendment that the only people who can marry are practicing Roman Catholics?

If marriage is to be approached as being defined as the whack jobs would have it, as some sort of mystical claptrap sanctioned by some ghosty-ghouly-zombie type somewhere, then what possible frickin' reason is there to enact a law about it? Are the taboo ridden putzes saying that a state legislature is more powerful than (insert imaginary friend of their choice)? If the state legislature does not have the power to bind their god or gods then who gives a shit who the state lets marry, let the imaginary friends sort it out.

The herd in Mississippi sure needs to have its thinking culled on this subject. And I thought it was pathetic how Kentucky responded to this issue.