First Thing in the Morning: Republican Hoochy (or Lack Thereof) UPDATED
Okay, so it’s Montana. I imagine there’s so many other exciting things to do on long cold Montana nights that sparkin’ rarely enters their mind.
And that’s a good thing because Republicans in Montana are contending that noodlin’ is only for procreation.
Take Montana State Representative and staunch Republican Dave Hagstrom.
During the debate over SB 107, which decriminalizes homosexuality, Representative [Dave] Hagstrom (R-Billings) asked Representative Bennett, who is openly gay and was the key force behind blasting SB 107 out of committee, “why do people have sex?” And then proceeded to explain that he would be voting against SB 107 using the all too famous homophobic logic that sole purpose of sex is to produce offspring.
I find it necessary to let you ponder on Dave Hagstrom for a minute.
I’d be willing to bet my best pair of pink boots that Dave Hagstrom believes that sex is only for procreation because Mrs. Hagstrom told him that.
On behalf of Mrs. Hagstrom and the entire staff of Miss Daisy’s Big Sky Cafe in Billings, Montana, I am pleading with you not to correct Dave’s mistaken belief. Seriously, don’t do it. You’ll make a woman somewhere cringe and throw up.
UPDATED: he also compares homosexual sex to a retractable ball point pen. Apparently, he did not understand the phallic symbolism, so he doesn’t know why people are snickering.
No, no. It’s time to enlighten all those people. Sex is for fun. If they don’t want to have sex with their spouses, divorce is available.
We need to explain to them that while sex came about as a way for species to continue to themselves, we have evolved quite a ways since that time and have developed complex brains that can think of lots of things to do, including having fun with our bodies.
Though we probably have to find a way to describe it without use the “E” word (evolution).
1Guess that makes Viagra illegal for any man with a wife over 45 or so . . .
2Well, attitudes like that help explain why contraceptives or paying for them is so antithema.
3Sorry, Sister Mary Hagstrom, but if you don’t know why people have sex by this time (looking a bit long in the tooth) you need to have a long talk with your gynecologist, er urologist. Baby making is one reason, but not the only one, and in your infinite ignorance, you should not be making public policy in this area. Now put down your ruler and say a rosary for enlightenment.
4I keep thinking back to a National Geographic show on the social life of monkeys when the uptight start talking about sex being just for procreation. Apparently, the monkeys didn’t get that memo, either.
5He can believe that but I don’t think he has the right to ram it down the throats of the rest of us.
6What’s next? No marriage for women in menopause?
Dude. I’m old. I didn’t get married til I was close to 50. Ya think we had sex to have kids? You’re an idiot.
Good Grief.
7Why-O-Why do Regressives spend so much time thinking about s-e-x? I always thought that people who were so concerned about other people’s sex lives must have a very sorry or kinky sex life themselves. If someone doesn’t like sex, then don’t have it and don’t think about it. Above all, leave others alone about theirs.
Mr. Hagstrom will probably be caught in a sex sting trying to meet up with underage girls.
8The only explanation I can come up for that fits the Republican behavior of late is that they are having a stooopit contest.
9And food is simply for the purpose of providing fuel, so Hagstrom better put aside that steak and potatoes and find himself some nice, nutritious spinach instead.
10June, the think about it because they are not actually having any of it. Much in the same way one finds oneself craving chocolate when one is dieting. Regressives have been on a no sex diet for so long that it is all they can think about.
11Wyatt_Earl: the excuse I’ve been looking for. Bring it on!
12Those who can do, those who can’t pass laws to make themselves feel empowered.
13Why oh why did his parents do it?
14@Corinne Sabo, I’m sure they were sorry they did as soon as they got a good look at him.
15We have politicos in Tennessee screaming about sex all the dayum time – they refuse to fund anything to do with contraception or sex education and then wonder why there are so many teenage kids pregnant, all the DAYUM time~idiots, please proceed…
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