linking anti-gay with pro-oil

Now, the gays learned ditched oil for water-based years ago, but that is not what he's talking about. San Francisco Chronicle columnist Mark Morford has an interesting (and funny) take on those "storm is coming" anti-gay marriage ads, and cleverly ties it to other right-wing/Republican dishonest and fear-mongering tactics regarding global warming, green energy, and the Right thirst for oil and oil profits.

Read it: Fear the Rainbow

Snip:

As it is with right-wing homophobes who think they know something of God but only really know something of fear and sexual hysteria, so it is with giant, heartless multinational megacorporations.

Check it out: Here is Big Oil, suddenly in deep freak-out mode over what they see as nothing short of a blasphemous assault on their religion of choice, an attack on their own miserable, archaic God, otherwise known as the almighty petrochemical.

Here they are, trying to convince anyone who'll listen that, while green energy is charming and quaint and a nice hobby for do-gooder Obama liberals, nothing can possibly replace the Great God of Oil. Like guns, fear, war, misinterpreting Jesus, homophobia, and pisswater light beer, petrochems are deep in our nation's lifeblood. Oil is inextricably fused to our national identity.

Translation: how dare the president suggest we must evolve beyond it. It's not just irresponsible and impossible, it's downright un-American.

Let's flip it around: How do you know President Obama's massive, unprecedented initiative to direct $150 billion toward alternative energy and green tech over 10 years as it chips away at the grimy pillars of unchecked Bush-era oil cronyism, is on the right track? Easy: Because Big Oil is bitching like an overpampered schoolgirl who just lost access to all the free coke she used to get from the fat, lecherous gym teacher. (emphasis added, because I think it's hilarious-IJS)

And there you have it. Distraught Christians say we cannot possibly disobey the mangled, misinterpreted Bible when it comes to hetero marriage because, well, that's how we've done it for centuries and it's been such a tremendous success, with almost no unhappiness, divorce, abuse, oppression, depression, suicide, hypocrisy, or general misery that it's obvious we shouldn't mess with it.

Similarly, oil titans argue we cannot possibly defy a healthy and wildly successful century of rabid oil fetishism and addiction, because, well, that's how we've always done it and it's been such a huge success, with almost no war or pollution or cancer or corruption or nauseating abuse of the planet whatsoever, that it's obvious we shouldn't mess with it.