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Kirby: Sorry Sen. Buttars, gay rights wont destroy us
By Robert Kirby
Tribune Columnist
Salt Lake TribuneLast week, Sen. Chris Buttars, R-West Jordan, reportedly announced proof
that the gay rights movement posed "the greatest threat to America."According to Buttars, homosexuals lack morals, engage in abominable
behavior, are as dangerous as radical Islam, and -- I apologize in advance
for saying this, but its time someone in the media did -- actually fail to
floss after every meal.I consider myself one of the most intolerant people I know, but gays arent
even on my "Top 500 People Whose Guts I Hate" list. I checked it this
morning.Under "H," the list goes from "Happy Birthday Songs in Restaurants" to
"Hitler, Adolf" without any mention of "Homosexuals." Nothing under "F" or
"Q" either.Perhaps I fail to appreciate what makes gays so dangerous. Tell me. Is there
something else I should be adding to my 72-hour emergency kit? If society
collapses -- and its gays who caused it -- I want to be prepared.Then again, maybe this is just another of those phony "America is doomed"
scares, like giving women the vote. Nearly 90 years ago, people hollered
that suffrage was an utter calamity to the American family. When the 19th
Amendment passed, just look what happened.Well, OK, theres really nothing to see except that the lines at the polls
got longer. Thats pretty bad but it didnt exactly ruin us.And what about the dreaded Negro? Back when it was all white, didnt America
once court disaster by giving blacks the vote, property rights, civil rights
and anything else?People -- idiots mainly -- absolutely guaranteed that doing away with racial
barriers would destroy the country. Today, nobodys even wearing a hard hat
over it.It could be that gays are more insidiously evil. The ones I know dont look
it, but Ive been wrong about appearances before. I was about Bigfoot.
Still, lets see what happens when were nice or even just grudgingly fair
to gays.In 1998, the federal government made it illegal to fire federal employees
just for being gay. Its tough to fire federal employees anyway, but this
was different. We held our breath and the Dow immediately stayed where it
was.Theres always some horrible threat poised to destroy America, something
were doing that reactionaries say will cause God to unleash his wrath upon
us. My grandfather thought it was tampon commercials.Maybe it takes a long time for Americas "greatest threats" to destroy it.
It could be that were actually being destroyed as we sit here talking about
it. Im not sure thats a bad thing.With even a casual glance at our history, its easy to see that the America
people feared seeing destroyed has always been an outdated version that
catered almost entirely to them.http://www.sltrib.com/ci_11774334