Morford: Now, That's San Francisco (gay marriage ceremonies re-ignite urban pride)

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | Wednesday, February 18, 2004 | Mark Morford, incontinent and proud!

[presidio9]

Friendly sex shops. Peet's. Dog parks. Stellar restaurants. Superlative tattoo artists. Fabulous weather. Unparalleled natural beauty. Organic foods. Fewer SUVs, more Priuses. Mission burritos. An overwhelming anti-Schwarzenegger sentiment. Sushi. Bush never visits.

There are things that make you happy to live in San Francisco, truly grateful, along with plenty of things that make you hyper-aware that you live in the country's most progressive open-minded convoluted messed-up liberal bubble, for both good and ill.

[KantianBurke]

sheesh what a dumbass. he's his own best sterotype.

[egarvue]

I feel truly sorry for the few remaining San Franciscans who are decent folks who are stuck with a city quickly going down the sewer hole.

[2banana]

But here's the best part: The City's brave move was not merely a giant well-manicured middle finger to the Christian Right and indignant homophobic conservatives everywhere.

Nor was it just an audacious act of civil disobedience, guaranteed to raise the ire of Bible thumpers and so-called pro-family groups hailing everywhere from Orange County to Colorado Springs. That's just a nice bonus.

Such hate. And what the writer has not figured out yet is that soon any local, state or federal official that does like a law may just ignore it (just like the SF mayor). You applaud it now (when used to promote your own social agenda) but will hate it when it is used against you...

[Sister_T]

What's funny is that these homo-promo types don't ever tell us the "good" to society that homo-pseudo-marriages will produce, other than their own gratification. They constantly whine about the religious and the conservatives who oppose this mess and talk about how "wrong" they are but I have yet, even in this lame article, to see them produce the benefits of accepting such immorality will avail to us as a society. Morons like this laugh at the "slippery slope" that their "enemies" warn about, all the while they are barreling down it at mach 1, joyfully and "proud" and don't even realize it!

[beckysueb]

Trouble is the libs never get anything used against them. Only the right does. If we were to demand they leave our ten commandments alone, they will say oh but thats against the law! Bill Press said that Alabama judge belonged in jail for his refusal to remove the ten commandments from the courthouse. Lets see if this mayor loses his job like the good judge did.

[Sister_T]

Such hate. And what the writer has not figured out yet is that soon any local, state or federal official that does like a law may just ignore it (just like the SF mayor). You applaud it now (when used to promote your own social agenda) but will hate it when it is used against you...

Don't you mean "doesn't like a law"? I see your point though and you're right!

[Jonah Hex]

Ms. Morford forgot to mention among Frisco's "virtues" that they're subsidized by other people's (both state and federal) taxes. Even their water is paid for by somebody else.

[johniegrad]

We have broken the taboo, challenged the ignorant and the easily terrified

For the life of me, I have not been able to understand why folks like this think that those who oppose homosexuality are either stupid or afraid. Is this ALL that they have to rely on to assume the position of moral pseudosuperiority? Do they need to think that they are powerful and that those who oppose them are weak? Is it possible for people simply to do privately what they want to do without having to put others down in order to justify it? Perhaps it is simply reaction formation and an attempt to project their own inadequacies onto others.

[2banana]

Don't you mean "doesn't like a law"?

The law in California (passed by a ballot proposition) is that marriage is defined as between one man and one woman. The SF Mayor ordered his clerk's office to issue marriage certificates to homosexual couples.

[dead]

San Francisco is really a beautiful city. Such a waste.

I wish they took over Gary Indiana instead.

[Semper Paratus]

Anybody see Morford standing in line outside city hall?

[Jonah Hex]

I wish they took over Gary Indiana instead.

Yes, but leaving your heart in San Francisco sounds better than leaving some other body part in Gary.

[presidio9]

[tuesday afternoon]

Perhaps it is simply reaction formation and an attempt to project their own inadequacies onto others.

Bump.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Ditto. Great food. Superb weather.
If you go, bring money.

[presidio9]

Countdown until the overzealous Admin Mod yanks the photo:

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This photo is an important bellweather of San Francisco "culture."

[dead]

Well that won't last long on this website, but it's very illustrative of the childishly self-centered and embarrassingly "shocking" ethos of the majority dopey population.

"OOOOhhhhhhhh! We used a curse word! Did ya see?! Did ya see?!"

Kinda fits in with the way "playing with poo" has become the prime focus of their being.

[Salman]

Note that the first thing he mentions about the place is the friendly sex shops.

You undoubtedly can find friendly sex shops in New York City, Boston or Chicago. But a "gay" guy from one of those towns would probably mention reataurants first.

[jimt]

A small group of conservatives, one a lawyer, needs to take action.

First, a group of say five, needs to go in and demand a license for their "marriage".

Next, a guy needs to go in and demand a license to "marry" his dog.

Third, another conservative needs to enter and demand a license to "marry" his car.

Then the lawyer needs to file a twelve gazillion dollar suit against the city clerk and the mayor if the licenses are not granted, or hold a press conference with his clients if they are. If homosexuals have the right to redefine the thousands of years old institution of marriage, there is absolutely no reason why it should stop at "two" or at "persons".

The homosexuals pushing this need to be shown up for the lunatics that they are.

[cspackler]

Ms. Morford forgot to mention among Frisco's "virtues" that they're subsidized by other people's (both state and federal) taxes

Absolutely. Have you ever been to SF? I've been put there on a couple of occaisions (one was during Halloween, please don't make me revisit THAT one...). I am still shocked at how expensive everything there is. Must be due to the cost of all of those wonderful "programs" they all love so much. Just another way of making someone else pay for what they thingk that they "deserve"

[dfwgator]

What that town needs is an enema (of course they'd probably love that).

[Rutles4Ever]

The judges that punted on this are absolutely out of their minds. There is absolutely no reason for a delay until March 29th to review this matter. The law is in black and white.

Any bets on which city will be next to disregard the will of the people?

Between abortion, gay marriage, cloning, and the cesspool mass media, the goats have clearly marked which side they are on.

Welcome the United Sewer of America.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

You wanna know what the really weird thing is, though...?

These past few weeks: there's scarcely any substantial, quantifiable difference between Morford's breathless fairy bleatings, and the piffle on Andy Sullivan's site.

[KarlInOhio]

I wish they took over Gary Indiana instead.

Gary is smart enough to export its home grown freak show.

[richardtavor]

If I were Morford, I would constantly check my position in relation to the San Andreas fault--because he will soon be sailing into the Pacific....

[Eala]

Countdown until the overzealous Admin Mod yanks the photo:
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posted on 02/18/2004 7:34:08

T + 1:21:nn and counting

[presidio9]

T + 1:21:nn and counting

That's because he's been busy with, um, more important duties and responsibilities.

[general_re]

[3catsanadog]

To hear these people talk, one would think that only gays have achieved true enlightenment in love and romance. That the depth of their love is something straights can only wish and hope to attain. That heterosexual love still is a neanderthal bopping his beloved's head with a club and taking her back to the cave.

[3catsanadog]

But I might have part of an answer. From what I can glean from some of my hate mail and the general conservative outcry, here is what the homophobes fear about same-sex marriage: bestiality.

No, stupid. That's down the road. What we fear is the slippery slope of changing age of consent laws so we can't even protect our own children. Of perverted gays using marriage to adopt children so they have their own play toy 24/7 in their own homes.

When this comes to pass, I may personally take this guy's epistle and shove it back in his face.

[3catsanadog]

The SF Mayor ordered his clerk's office to issue marriage certificates to homosexual couples.

One wonders that if the clerk's refused to disobey the law, the Mayor would have fired them for not breaking the law.

[3catsanadog]

Yep. Don't forget what we taxpayers are shelling out in AIDS research, and medicine for people who spend their free time looking for others to infect or catch the virus.

[3catsanadog]

If Time's Man/Person/Thing of the year 2004 is 2 queers kissing, I won't be surprised.

[Sam's Army]

Can't believe its still there....must be lunchtime or "bathroom break".

[Blue Scourge]

what...no barf alert..

[hattend]

When AIDS activists promote F'ing over abstinence for people with AIDS, I just don't think they're interested in stopping the disease or have AIDS victims' best interests at heart.

AIDS is easier to get under control than a cold or flu outbreak. StopAids.org indeed.

[Fraulein]

you live in the country's most progressive open-minded convoluted messed-up liberal bubble, for both good and ill.

Morford is living in a convoluted messed up bubble alright. His brain.

His cutesy naive saccharine false blah blah blah is nauseating. This guy always tries WAY too hard to keep convincing himself and everyone else just how great he has it. But the real truth about Mr. MORFORD is quite obvious: Obssessive-compulsive disorder, severe perversion, paranoia, narcissism, immaturity, delusions of granduer, borderline psychosis, dissociative flights of fancy; and every article appears as yet another predictable reenactment of some form of trauma repetition.

Look past the conflated and overused string of adverbs; look past the latent perverse symbolism, look past the frequent glib self-questioning ("What, too fluffy?"); look past all of the run on sentences and comma splices...and one will soon discover that he is trying desperately to compenate for something that is not there. His technique has become tired and predictably the same. He may think that he is creative and liberated, but clearly his mind is enslaved within the trap of some very specific psychological obsessions, which just get repeated from one article to another, over and over again, like a constant loop. YAWN.

In fact, when he is writing he becomes so very self-entertained and amused with himself that in the end any argument or content will have been abandoned and sacrificed for the sake of his merely attempting to find ways to construct sentences around certain words and phrases that he happens to like. Obssessional. And probably also a mama's boy.

MORFORD GET SOME MEDICATION AND A BETTER EDITOR

[Celtjew Libertarian]

The following can also be found, here in Gainesville, Florida:

Friendly sex shops, Stellar restaurants, Superlative tattoo artists, fabulous weather, unparalleled natural beauty (I'm told), Organic foods, Priuses, and Sushi.

And the food, at least, is cheaper.

[Gritty]

look past all of the run on sentences and comma splices...and one will soon discover that (Morford) is trying desperately to compensate for something that is not there

Right.

That "something" is God. He's busy running from his conscience, and deep down inside, he knows it!

He can run, but he can't hide.

[MEGoody]

Yeah, I'm sure all of San Francisco is proud that their mayor is a lawbreaker.

[kaktuskid]

Friendly sex shops. Peet's. Dog parks. Stellar restaurants. Superlative tattoo artists. Fabulous weather. Unparalleled natural beauty. Organic foods. Fewer SUVs, more Priuses. Mission burritos.

Not to mention bums sleeping on doorsteps and excrement in the streets (both animal and human)

[ArrogantBustard]

A Poem, for Miss Morford to contemplate. If (s)he has the wit, and the courage to do so.

[little jeremiah]

Homsosexual Agenda Ping.

I don't have the stomach to read this whole thing right now, I will later. This a-hole (sorry, it just slipped in) is a good example of homosexual thought and belief.

Anyone who wants conservatives to continue being Mr. Nice Guy or Gal is assisting the homosexual nazi-activists in their effort to turn the country (and indeed the world) into their playpen. Being Nice Guy is like taking a butter knife to a machine gun fight.

If anyone wants on/off this list, ping me.

[jjm2111]

They can only mumble about immorality and quote some vague Scripture about sodomy that makes them all tingly, as wary biblical scholars all over the world roll their eyes and point to a thousand proofs that demonstrate, over and over again, how the Bible is basically a reinterpreted regurgitated piece of classic patriarchal misogynistic mythmaking that says exactly what the church rewrote it to say.

Is it okay to lie in editorials? I think Morford WANTS to believe that.

[Teacher317]

Aye, but would he similarly honor a conservative town for proudly flipping the bird to anti-gun laws?

[backhoe]

Morford may be clever with words ( and I mean that in the "too clever by half" sense ) but there is a cloying, bitchy archness about his writing that reminds me of a male Molly Ivins on crystal meth.

Like he's writing for the accolades and entertainment of his peer group, and no-one else.