Comments on: Because biblical marriage is jumping a broom or something

By: JFE

JFE — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 14:15:38 +0000

Despite this, my fiance and I are still planning on jumping a broom at our wedding.

By: Regan DuCasse

Regan DuCasse — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 17:50:59 +0000

EXCELLENT, my friends!
And as I said on another thread, the difference in intelligence and being factually informed and CORRECT, when compared to what the anti gay say on a regular basis, is mind blowing.
I asked Priya if seeing the comments from the anti gay makes her feel as if she were arguing with someone mentally disabled. I mean THAT seemingly brain damaged that this nearly takes the sport out of debating them.
One of my typical enemies at TownHall, loves to speak for me. And he said I loved homosexuals. In that smarmy way as if it were a bad thing, and came at the expense of caring about heterosexuals.

When I was in middle school, I was sitting with my best friend (she’s Jewish, and just happened to be white), and a white boy came up to her and called her ‘nigger lover’.
I was always getting into trouble with fighting. Especially if I won. It was very hard to deal with bullying of any kind, even in self defense because punishment was meted out to both of us, or sometimes not even then, if the authority didn’t see what the other kid did.
Anyway, I thought back to that when an anti gay bigot talks to me that way.
My friend said later, even though she was upset at first, her mother told her to be proud of it and herself for NOT being a thing like that name calling kid.
That the name sounded ugly, but it meant that she was a good person after all.
Her mother, Esther Ravitz, was my first Jewish mom and a light in my life.
So, with this equivalent nasty behavior coming from a grown assed man, safe behind his computer keyboard, I’m proud to be THAT kind of lover.
But that doesn’t mean, after all, that I wouldn’t just love to pound that a-hole into a grease spot.
:0)

By: Snowman

Snowman — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 13:25:43 +0000

I’m pretty much scratching my head, sitting here thinking “WTF?”

They couldn’t be bothered to take ten or twenty minutes to read an article on African American history on Wikipedia or something, first? Did they just totally make this shit up??

I’m no expert on African American history myself, but I know a bit about Pagans and I know Hunter’s right about the broom thing.

Before I even read the comments I felt like someone was trying to insult my intelligence…and I’m a white guy. Why don’t they ever consider how something like this might look to somebody who isn’t them?

“Jump the broom for marriage” almost comes off as racist, even though they might have just been so frakking ignorant that they simply got their traditions mixed up. It’s offensive as much because they probably figure no one will bother to look up the facts. It’s hard to tell which is more the case, ignorance or malice?

By: Hunter

Hunter — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 11:15:11 +0000

Jumping the broom is a Pagan tradition, part of a handfasting (marriage) ceremony, probably deriving from the ancient Celts. (Someone actually traced it from Wales to the New World.) There’s nothing particularly biblical about it.

And that quote is puzzling — establishing that marriage is a civil right, and then claiming that it’s not a civil right? Hah?

And as you point out, their faith was imposed on them.

Pretty incoherent.

By: MattNYC

MattNYC — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 03:15:45 +0000

I think they need to hire Eugene as a consultant–at these rates, they should be able to afford him for an hour or two…