Yeah, we in the overflow ceremonial courtroom were hardly very ceremonial in our reaction to Tam’s testimony about the evil internet. First it’s bad, because it’s used for organizing by those gays who are everywhere in your business — then it’s good because you can find out that the homosexuals are child molestors.

The internet is amazing.

Can we extrapolate that if someone had TOLD him that the Netherlands has legalized incest, he would not have believed it? That he believes things because he has read them on the internet?

If that’s true, let’s get him reading THIS website!

You mean, if I posted on the internet that Conservative Chinese American Christians use live chickens in bizarre religious rituals involving children and Elmo dolls…

then, by virtue of it being on the internet, it makes it true?

He’s a doctor of WHAT?

That needs to be televised at some point….people need to see the crazy lies promoted by the pro 8 people.

You mean to tell me that Conservative Chinese American Christians DON’T use live chickens in bizarre religious rituals involving children and Elmo dolls???

DAMN YOU INTERNETS!

Seriously now, some of his testimony actually made me cry. I know people like this guy, mostly older people who are terrified of the world around them, will always side with whatever they are told is safe, and don’t know how to set up an email account on their own, or how NOT to click on ad banners.

I sat with a musician in his late 40′s once trying to set him up a myspace account for his band, and he kept getting all excited, thinking that the ad banners asking him to blow up the brunette’s boobs bigger than the blond’s was just a silly game, not something that might put horrible viruses on his computer. My mom had to explain to my grandfather once that some porn sites are viruses in disguise. He never learned, right up till the day he died, went through like five computers in two years at one point.

I feel defensive of these types of people right now. A big organization has learned new ways to use them, just like the ad banners and fake porn sites (at least advertising admits it has no real soul or sense of honor, these people claim to have the ultimate morality). I don’t think these people are stupid, I just think they have strong interests that sometimes guide them right past logic and into blind obedience. My hippie liberal grandfather would roll in his grave if he heard me say that, but rest the old man’s soul, he was susceptible too!

These are our fathers, grandparents and loved ones! Some of these people have seen firsthand how scary the world can be, especially the ones from the 50′s and 60′s, and especially our veterans! They have every reason to be terrified, and, for many, it’s a trained response at this point to react strongly to scary things. If they are lead to believe that someone is trying to hurt their kids, it’s only natural for them to get protective. We need to above all embrace our loved ones and help them find the truth, and to remember they’re not all just trying to be assholes.

And these organizations need to back the fuck off. I think it’s disgusting that they would use my grandparents and parents to further this fear-mongering hateful agenda. My granmother gave me the biggest hug on my wedding day, and went home to be bombarded with this message that I am a child molester, from some nice old man on the radio or some pretty website on the internet. This is absolutely despicable.

When exactly did reality become a story from The Onion?