Wednesday, July 27, 2005

Brain functions and inferiority of bigoted bureaucrats

If you think the administration's saying the Abu Gharib photos can't be released because to do so would violate the Geneva Conventions is an Alice-In-Wonderland twisted, fruitcake argument--wait until you hear the reason the Utah Department of Motor Vehicles told Elizabeth Solomon she couldn't put a GAYSROK license plate on her car:

The department declared that the proposed plates “relate to sexual functions and express superiority of gender.”

This is so screwed up, just about all you can do is stand in front of it with your mouth hanging open, which is probably also against Utah law. That old, deeply-rooted bigoted belief that being gay is about having sex just won't go away. I'm willing to bet my bank account that the state of Utah doesn't tow cars that have Just Married written on them because I'm sure they believe that heterosexual relationships are about more than "sexual functions."

As for the other argument--while I have always been irritated by the term "gays and lesbians" (as if lesbians aren't gay)--any person who has not been in a coma for fifty years knows that the word "gays" refers to all homosexual citizens.