The Loony Left Show: The Wedding Boycott Question
JVoices, the single funniest Jewish site on the internet (but they have no idea how many giggles they create!) takes on the important daring question: Should we boycott our straight friends weddings in order to force the gay marriage issue?
After all, since “all of the arguments against Gay Marriage are Homophobic,� Mike Finesilver is not going to attend straight weddings anymore. Additionally, he is unwilling to “provide a large and usually overcompensating gift.�
Now Mike, with all due respect, let’s be honest. The gift aspect is completely unrelated to your homosexuality or your gay activism. It’s because you are a cheap Jew. Please don’t go and confuse identities like that. It gives victimology a bad name!
Now you are probably wondering whether I will join in the straight marriage boycott. Well, quite frankly, if the wedding is outside Manhattan, I’ll use whatever excuse I can come up with to justify staying home.
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Well I am down for the boycott of gifts cause I am cheap jew and not because I am a radical lefty with a healthy case of victimology who thought this post was pretty funny.
But on a serious notethis kind of boycott is actually useful. Those who are using this tactic are getting the attention of folks…so perhaps it is forcing the issue considering you are talking about Gay Marriage.
POJL,
We are talking about it anyway. Such talk helped the Republicans win the 2004 elections, unfortunately.
But none of this talk makes gay marriage tenable from a traditional Jewish point of view, and none of the name calling will change that. Of course, secular law is something quite different.
Anyway — if someone announced that he wasn’t going to a friend or family members wedding because of a political issue, I would talk about it, but I would probably be noting “what a self-righteous dick” that guy is.
I would agree with the total dick comment as well.
Outside of the attainability of gay marriage in Judaism (clearly I think it is, while you don’t) I believe that marriage equality is about the marriage rights, and not the fight.
Equality California is against these boycotts while fighting for equality. They want people to get married…that is the whole point…but I suppose we can talk about it and get the Dems to win. Just have to talk about it in the right way.
If you got the Times Select you should take a read of this: The Sit-In at the Altar: No ‘I Do’ Till Gays Can Do It, Too
well, this is what brad and angelina are doing. they refuse to get married until everyone who wants to can. im sure there are many intellectual couples in the country who are doing the same thing.
I agree that the boycott is silly. Are your friends the ones who are oppressing you? I personally voted against a gay marriage ammendment to the Virginia constitution. So clearly I am keeping the gay man down. Your absence at my simcha is really going to make a statement to the governement.
Also, if you don’t want to buy an expensive gift, don’t. I have plenty of family who (when they do give gifts) give humbly, or reasonably, or even better, concientiously. It is nice when someone plants a tree in Israel in your honor. Or donates money to AIDS research, or to Katrina victims, etc, etc.
“It is nice when someone plants a tree in Israel in your honor. Or donates money to AIDS research, or to Katrina victims, etc, etc.”
For a wedding? Nah. It’s nice to do such a thing if someone is sick or has died. Then it’s nice. Otherwise, it’s not really particularly nice.
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