Let the Hypocrisy Begin

Now we're told that the apparently imminent Gibbons' divorce shouldn't be talked about in newspapers or on TeeVee. Of course, those saying that write for newspapers (or quasi-newspapers), and they say so in the midst of stories about...the likely divorce. (VTS,Ral)

Sorry, but Gibbons' started it. Gibbons told us that marriage was a sacred, mystical bond between two people. So sacred, mystical, and special that it could only exist between a male adult human and a female adult human. If you are a guy who wants to marry a guy or a gal who wants to marry a gal, so the propaganda goes, then you're too weird and perverse to participate in such a sacred relationship.

Gibbons had notoriously flip-flopped on the banning of same-sex marriages, but in 2006, his last year in Congress, he voted for the Protection of Marriage Act which tells us that "Marriage in the United States shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman."

"It's not fair to judge someone else's life" blubbers a spokesman for the extreme wing of a party built on just that premise. (Sun) For nearly thirty years it has beat up on Americans who are single parents, gay, non-christian, homeless, and in any way different from the Cleaver family norm. It even wants to listen in on your phone calls on the minuscule chance you might know Bin Laden's phone number.

What makes it all worse is that the purveyors of the family values spew do it not because they believe they should live up to those so-called values, but because they want the votes of the narrow-minded minority that empty mouths those values. Some how, it's okay for Newt Gingrich to treat his former wife like dirt while blathering about "family values" or for Dick Cheney to use anti-gay rhetoric to split the electorate to get W elected while being a supposedly loving and tolerant father to a lesbian.

But setting all of that aside, there may be pragmatic reasons why the citizens of Nevada should be let in on the secret. Divorces are indeed emotionally devastating. Are we to be told if the Governor will start having bouts of depression? Drinking binges? Do we as citizens of the state have a right to know if our Governor is mentally fit to govern?

And now we hear rumors, in a right-wing newspaper no less, that the Governor has been kicked out of the mansion. (RJ) Well. Does the Governor's current residence have sufficient communication facilities in case of an emergency? After all the blather about the need for a Carson City fusion center, now the Governor may or may not even be living in CC? Are we allowed to know about that or not?

Anyway, here's the deal, Repugs. Maybe if you would stay out of our lives, we might consider staying out of yours.

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[Head Scratchin]

The Governor moved out HIS taxpayer funded home? What do we call the place now, the "Former First Lady's Mansion"?

Or, is his moving out a Freudian revelation?

I find it simply impossible to accept the notion that I should have any sympathy for the Gibbonses. I can't think of a single example of his ever doing anything to warrant it.