Apparently, Mitt Romney sees "IRONY" as something his servants do on wash day.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

This is from Romney's speech at Liberty University. As a straight man, MY view on a man who wants to marry another man or a woman who wants to marry another woman...my personal view, my reaction, how that decision directly impacts my life...using Romney's criteria below...should be "trivial"..."Oh, you're getting married? Great. Best wishes to you for a happy life." It should not be a "call to arms" for me to start making phone calls and sending emails to our elected officials in order to prevent the wedding. Why the hell would two people in love...or two people who "think they are in love"...or any other reading on the "love" meter...be any of my business?

That's IT. No Constitutional Amendment preventing people from being happy (or maybe unhappy...marriage is no guarantee, no matter who you are. Gays have the right to accept whatever comes up on the roll of those particular dice).

And the sad part is that Romney just...doesn't...get...it. Apparently he didn't read his own speech. To me, gays wanting to marry is trivial. It shouldn't even have to be discussed or debated. Having our Military fighting and dying in the Middle East for no good reason, and a shit economy back home, is not trivial.

LET PEOPLE BE HAPPY, you stupid, entitled fuck. The "one thing that endures forever" is being the man or woman you know you are, deep in your heart. As Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, "What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think." You know what Emerson was saying, Mitt? It was basically "fuck YOU if you think for a minute that you're going to run my life." Put that in your pipe and smoke it, you clueless, tone-deaf, bullying, arrogant fuck.

As fundamental as these principles are, they may become topics of democratic debate. So it is today with the enduring institution of marriage. Marriage is a relationship between one man and one woman. The protection of religious freedom has also become a matter of debate. It strikes me as odd that the free exercise of religious faith is sometimes treated as a problem, something America is stuck with instead of blessed with. Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government.

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Someone once observed that the great drama of Christianity is not a crowd shot, following the movements of collectives or even nations. The drama is always personal, individual, unfolding in one’s own life. We’re not alone in sensing this. Men and women of every faith, and good people with none at all, sincerely strive to do right and lead a purpose-driven life.

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All that you have heard here at Liberty University – about trusting in God and in His purpose for each of us--makes for more than a good sermon. It makes for a good life. So many things compete for our attention and devotion. That doesn’t stop as you get older. We are all prone, at various turns, to treat the [font color="red"]trivial things as all-important, the all-important things as trivial,[/font] and little by little lose sight of the one thing that endures forever.

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-read-mitt-romneys-full-address-to-liberty-university-20120513,0,6626544.story