Posted on 05/04/2008 9:12:11 AM PDT by Dawnsblood
This would be the first of my many trips to the minefield at the junction where love and politics meet. Jimmy is not an elected official, but being married to him has given me a sliver of appreciation for the pressures couples feel and the judgments they provoke when they move in the world of politics, whether or not they sit on the same side.
My friends--Westside-Topanga-artist-former-Peace-Corps-writer-multicultural-all-is-Zen pals--first questioned my sanity, then became angry. After my buddy Rachel was sure I wasn't kidding about the whole Republican thing, she demanded to know how I could even stand to be in a room with someone who had worked for anti-choice candidates. Laura and Veronica were concerned: Was it hormonal? Was I that desperate to find a straight, employed, single man in Southern California? Maybe I should watch "The Secret" again? Other longtime acquaintances rescinded a dinner offer when I told them whom I was bringing. And when Rachel--now having met Jimmy and been assured he didn't have horns and carry a trident straight from Hell--invited him to play his guitar at a reading, the promoter tried to ban him, saying, "A right-wing fascist playing the club? Not on my watch."
If I had been dating, say, a conservative lawyer, they would only have been amused, but Jimmy represented the Political System. When it was clear this wasn't a passing fling, everybody tried to make sense of Sam and Jimmy, to understand the logic of our being together . . . forgetting that once love comes in the front door, logic goes out the window.
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Run away Jimmy, run away!
Sounds like a real mixed marriage! She will lose all her friends, as it sounds like they are pretty stalinist.
Just more examples of Liberal intolerance. You don’t agree with them so you must be shunned. I live in Boston so I’m used to hearing the liberal point of view. I’ll talk with a liberal, have dinner with them, be friends with them. I look at their views as amusing and far-fetched. Liberals look at conservatives as if they’re viscious monsters. It’s strange.
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