The Kind-Hearted Smart Aleck

The saying may be, "Opinions are like assh*les - everyone has one," but in light of the Supreme Court's marriage equality ruling a week and a half ago, it's felt like many on the far-right end of the political spectrum have magically grown a pair of additional assh*les due to all the commentary they've publicly made. Such was the case yet again with a Columbus Dispatch letter-to-the-editor I read the other day, entitled, "Truth should trump courts good intentions," written by Matt Palmer of Bexley. Here's the full letter: "I write in response to the Supreme Court’s decision last Friday to affirm same-sex marriage (Dispatch article, Saturday). From the very beginning, mankind has asserted its independence from what it deems to be unacceptable limits. The very story of Adam and Eve is, of course, our own story, told again and again by every person and by every generation. That story — man’s desire to define himself as he wishes — was told on...

Far-right die-hards in the media seem to be obsessed with the end of the world. Perhaps it's because they're somewhat suicidal, yet feel they won't go to heaven if they commit such an act, so they hope someone either ends the world so they rise up to heaven or Jesus comes again and takes them away from this God-awful place (how I never understood that phrase...). Perhaps they're tripping acid quite regularly and as a result, are more coo-coo for Cocoa Puffs than Hugh Hefner is disease-ridden and horny. There are a number of possibilities. The reason I bring this up is due to what Fox News contributors Todd Starnes and Erick Erickson had to say recently regarding the Supreme Court's pending gay-marriage rights decision. When speaking on American Family Radio, Starnes said the following: "You know, it's as if we're second-class citizens now (Christians) because we support the traditional, Biblical definition of marriage, or perhaps we are pro-life, an...