Those liberal Northeastern elitists are at it again. It isn't enough that they have to go out and celebrate the Supreme Court striking down the Defense of Marriage Act and California's Proposition 8, like it was cause for something besides quiet mourning for the heterosexual marriages soon to be rent asunder. But now they've enlisted our most beloved puppets in their crusade of depravity. The cover of next week's New Yorker features Bert and Ernie … well, you just have to see it to witness the horror.
Is nothing sacred? Can't two guys share a bedroom for decades in an emotionally supportive relationship based on affection and trust without people wanting to make it all gay? I mean, come on!
Needless to say, conservatives were not pleased when they saw the two sitting on the couch together, Bert's arm resting across Ernie's shoulders. "Is it 'Sesame Street' or 'Castro Street'?" asked liberal media bias inquisitors Newsbusters, a joke that surely didn't occur to anyone else. "Not even Muppets are spared in our culture war," lamented Human Events. The National Review's Kathryn Jean Lopez offered an eloquent reply, simply posting the image under the headline, "Innocence. Lost."
Our descent toward a cultural Sodom and Gomorrah continues. Even Disney is getting in on the act, with one of their hundreds of insipid sitcoms, Good Luck Charlie, soon to feature an episode in which the title character has a play date with a kid who has two moms. They really ought to go back to stories in which a young woman waits around for a while, then finally finds fulfillment through elegant evening wear and a marriage proposal from a wealthy man from the aristocracy. Those are the kind of traditional values this country needs.
So They Say
"Aye. I'm sorry, no."
-Senator Jerry Moran's vote on the immigration bill
Daily Meme: Actual Wendy Davis Headlines from the Right
- Stand ... with Death
- Broadcast Networks Fawn Over Pro-Abortion Texas Legislator
- Rick Perry Praises Wendy Davis. Political Left Gets Outraged
- Obama Tweet Supports Texas Pro-Abortion 'Mob'
- Texas Advocates Use Filibuster, Mob Tactics to Delay Late-term Abortion Law
- Media Embrace Mob Rule in Texas
- Despite Pro-abortion Mob, Texas Fights for Life
- MOB RULE IN TEXAS: ABORTION BILL SHOUTED DOWN BY PROTESTERS
- 'Something is deeply wrong': Kirsten Powers slams 'hero worship' of Wendy Davis
What We're Writing
- Should Americans not have to follow laws they believe violate their religious beliefs? Paul Waldman writes that this will be the next fight over Obamacare.
- E.J. Graff, who has been writing about marriage equality for two decades, chronicles her path from radical queer to the mainstream.
What We're Reading
- Slate unearths a literacy test given to Louisiana blacks who wanted to vote in the 1960s. It's infuriatingly confusing.
- Molly Ball argues that the Voting Rights Act is far from dead.
- Want to filibuster a bill? Mother Jones has a chart to tell you how to train to avoid a speech-ending bathroom break.
- Yikes, Mayor Bloomberg: "I think we disproportionately stop whites too much and minorities too little."
- Why gun control in blue states alone doesn't work: guns don't stop at state lines.
- Sarah Posner provides the religious context of the abortion debate in Texas.
- Jelani Cobb notes that the Internet's assessment of Rachel Jeantal says nothing good about those watching the unfolding George Zimmerman trial.
Poll of the Day
Though 81 percent of Americans know they must have health insurance under Obamacare, 43 percent of those who are uninsured do not, according to a new Gallup poll. The Affordable Care Act requires Americans to be insured or pay a fine, effective January 2014. The government is trying to increase awareness of the requirement, and those who don't have a plan will be able to buy one through a government website beginning October 1.
