Schwarzenegger Loves Having It Both Ways

I feel so comforted by the fact that the Governator (Ahnuld) has made a public statement telling gay couples in California "not to give up" on their rights to get legally married. We can all breathe a sigh of relief, knowing that although California voters rejected the legalization of all gay marriages that happened before November 4th as well as all gay marriages after that date, Arnold predicts that it won't last forever.

Open discrimination for a few more years, and the vague hope of a bright future where same-sex marriage is legalized in your state and all others. Right.

Governor Schwarzenegger, who spent a lot of time campaigning for McCain/Palin, who has in the past expressed his disapproval of same-sex marriage, wants to have it both ways.

In a typical Ah-nuld analogy, he compared the fight for same-sex marriage to his bodybuilding pursuits in the 1970s. "I learned that you should never, ever give up...these people should never give up. They should be on it and on it until they get it done." As if the massive movement against Proposition 8 in California was the equivalent of the 3rd-place loser in the 1975 World Bodybuilding Championship.

Thanks for the memo, you condescending jackass. The so-called "gay rights movement" has been "on it" through millions of dollars, millions of supporters, and a tidal wave of change in the past twenty years. The Human Rights Campaign trumps your bodybuliding career (and your horrendous movie career, and your social-climbing Kennedy-marrying career, and your showboating political career.) The movement will continue, the dream of overturning blatant discrimination in your state and others will continue, and I don't need to hear Republican governors telling me that my best wasn't good enough.

By the way, Arnold: your not-very-publicized "public opposition" of Proposition 8 was helpful, except for all of those times that you campaigned with the same Republican Congressmen and the same McCain campaign that publicly supported it. I'm sure that one press release that your office put out opposing the Proposition really makes you feel like you helped a great deal.

Thanks a lot. I think I'll turn to ESPN4 and watch a bodybuilding competition, in order to get fully inspired for the events yet to come.