Attack Of The Unwilling To Think For Themselves Crowd

And yet another twit that can't separate "how I was raised" from reality. This from Maine State Representative Sheryl Briggs from the floor of the Maine House (they're debating marriage equality today… still not sure what's to debate, but that's what they're wasting their time doing):

"I have been struggling with this bill for months knowing it is going to come forward … that I'm going to have to choose … I'm so sorry I'm going to hurt my family, friends, citizens of the state of Maine. See, my daughter is gay. I have known this for about 15 years. Throughout all this time, I have kept my personal feelings on this matter separate … She has never ever heard me express my opposition to this in her life … I would never hurt her. I would got to end of the earth for her. But because I feel so strongly about opposed to this bill, blame it on my upbringing or the good book. … I can't change how I feel … But because of who I am and where I am and as a member of this legislative body, ethically it is my duty and responsibility to publicly say to my daughter that I do not support [gay marriage]. I just had to finally confess to her exactly how If eel and now i have no choice. I have to hit that button. Although I could say that the majority of my constituents are in opposition to this bill, to which they are, and to use that as my excuse to my decision making process, but that would not be fair to me, my daughter, or my constituents. I am sorry that there is no other way we could compromise to make things better for everyone, because that's what we do as legislators. We are here to fix things. To make things better for everybody. I feel like I need to let everyone citizen know that the decision we make here today is not an easy one. … I ask each citizen in the state of Maine on both sides of the aisle to please respect our individual decisions."

Fantastic! So not only is she completely unable to think for herself, she also is fully aware of just how horrible she sounds as evidenced by the several apologies laced throughout this speech. Miss Briggs has stated that her hatred is simply because of how she was raised or because of the "good book" (of which it is unclear she has read or understood). She is just not able to question those beliefs taught to her at some point in her life. Good for her, I'm glad she's perfectly happy with being an ignorant tyrant. I'm even happier for her constituents that can accept an excuse like that.

But truly I feel sorry for her lesbian daughter, who's mother willingly hid her hatred from her for so long. I sure hope her daughter has a bigger heart than the mother and can love and accept her mother for who she is, regardless of how bigotted she is. I sure hope that her daughter can teach her the error of her ways by being a better person.

Finally, I think I need to know why Rep. Briggs feels the need to apologize multiple times in this speech. Is it because she knows how ridiculous she sounds? Is it because she knows that she's stabbing her daughter in the back? Is it because she knows that people like me will tear her apart for never once taking the time to consider this position for herself? No, I think it's because she's fully aware of how wrong she is.