{"id":48,"date":"2004-02-11T10:09:34","date_gmt":"2004-02-11T14:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=48"},"modified":"2004-02-11T10:09:34","modified_gmt":"2004-02-11T14:09:34","slug":"let-me-get-this-straight-well-not-straight-exactly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=48","title":{"rendered":"Let me get this straight. Well, not straight exactly."},"content":{"rendered":"

So, in France, a woman can marry a corpse<\/a>. But in (most of) the U.S., two living people cannot get married if they are of the same sex. According to his own arguments, Bush would only be upset if the corpse had a vagina.<\/p>\n

Is the president ready to make the distinction if a hermaphrodite wants to marry?<\/p>\n

As far as I can tell, the French allowing a woman to marry her dead boyfriend (just in time to take advantage of that better-than-viagra rigor mortis) is easily the best argument I have heard for gay marriage. Then we can all laugh at the French on our televisions, then flip over to gay porn and wank each other off in our marriage beds, knowing where the *real* sickness lies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, in France, a woman can marry a corpse. But in (most of) the U.S., two living people cannot get married if they are of the same sex. According to his own arguments, Bush would only be upset if the corpse had a vagina. 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