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HOW THE GAYS RUINED AMERICA

Same-Sex Marriage Ban Subverted By Clever Gays

Sneaky tricksters.Virginia won’t let The Gays get married, so this couple just walked into a courthouse and said “We would like to get married plz” and they got a marriage license and even got married, even though they were two dudes. (One of them had really nice skin, though!) And just like that, billions of straight marriages around America went kerplunk in an explosion of existential despair.

Actually, no, nobody even noticed that these two dudes had gotten married until one of them applied to have his name changed to Penelopsky Aaryonna Goldberry, possibly the most awesome name ever invented.

That’s when the ruse unravelled, and all these kindly public officials were like, “Oh whoops, the chick with the nice skin was actually an 18-year-old male named Justin.” So now this couple is not married after all, but we do hope Justin goes ahead with the name change.

Va. Couple Nearly Sidesteps State Ban on Gay Marriage [Washington Post]


1:04 PM on Wed July 2 2008
By Sara K. Smith
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  1. shortsshortsshorts says at 1:07 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    PHEW! That was close. Surely if they had tied the knot and the state had let it stick, four horseman would follow with terrorist bombs, floods, earthquakes and dead Republicans sodomizing each other.

  2. user-of-owls says at 1:07 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    Imagine the uproar if Justina-Peneloposkovoski had married one of the chocolate cats!

  3. The Lucky Republican says at 1:09 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    I blame the gays for this.

  4. queeraselvis v 2.0 says at 1:09 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    “something was amiss… or a mister.”

    Wokka wokka wokka.

  5. ronaldpagan says at 1:10 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    McCain for president! Penelopsky Aaryonna Goldberry (nee Justin McCain), that is.

    LOVE!

  6. Humble Pi says at 1:11 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    Another sign of the end times…

  7. Serolf Divad says at 1:11 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    Yeah, the same thing happened a few years ago when a white woman was almost allowed to marry a very light skinned negro in Virginia. Luckily the clerk grew suspicious due to certain verbal inflections on the part of the would-be groom, and when he looked into the matter further discovered that the man’s grandmother was a full blooded negress. Nedless to say the Virginia Authorities were called and they put a stop to that attempted miscegenation right then and there!

    God bless America!

  8. Spence says at 1:11 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    Virginia is for Lovers. Of pussy.

  9. WonksRunAmuck says at 1:11 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    Just the awkwardness of the name — that deputy clerk that waited on them suspected something was amiss, or, actually, a mister,” Chief Deputy Clerk Gary Anderson said.

    That is intense. Like camping.

  10. Oscar Folsom Cleveland says at 1:12 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    Headline: “McCain Marries 18-Year Old Latino Youth, Loses New Mexico, Texas and Georgia”

  11. kudzu says at 1:12 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    At least they’re both White, right? I mean, say what you want but as long as it’s not another Loving v VA…

  12. MoodProcessor says at 1:12 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    Well, at least they’ve avoided that tricky and expensive divorce!

  13. ronaldpagan says at 1:13 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    McCain, who court employees said appeared to be a woman, presented a Virginia driver’s license and filled out the section of the application labeled “bride.” Court employees commented on “what pretty skin” McCain had, a court official said.

    It’s unclear whether McCain and Blount were trying to make a political statement or put one over on officials, or whether McCain is transgender.

    Newport News officials apparently were not the first to mistake McCain for a woman.

  14. Lionel Hutz Esq. says at 1:14 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    I’m waiting for the follow up report of all the divorces that were cancelled now that this abomination has been stopped.

  15. weirdiowasculpture says at 1:14 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    I think my heterosexual marriage just shuddered.

  16. Delicious says at 1:15 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    Damn, I was going to Newport News to marry my horse - who has very nice skin, by the way.

  17. NotUrEvryDayWEzl says at 1:18 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    weirdiowasculpture: In fear or post-orgasmic ecstasy?

  18. RaptorAvatar says at 1:19 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    You’d think Penelopsky Aaryonna Goldberry would have the good sense to maybe stick with his white name for a little while before sticking another finger in the flimsy Rottweiler cage that is Virginia law.

  19. weirdiowasculpture says at 1:21 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    NotUrEvryDayWEzl: Fear, natch, There’s very little post-orgasmic ecstasy in heterosexual marriage.

  20. AngryBlakGuy says at 1:22 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    …thank goodness they caught this little snafu! Do you know what would happen if gays were actually allowed to get married?!

    -Gay Day parades everyday
    -Butt Sex education in the schools
    -Gay recruiters roaming play grounds
    -Gay people having sex on the hood of YOUR car in the parking lot
    -Guys looking at your penis while you pee in public urinals
    -Guys wearing assless chaps on the subway
    -Guy introducing themselves followed by “Top” or “Bottom”

  21. Seldo says at 1:27 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    Why are there no pictures of Justin-with-the-nice-skin? If I see a story about 19 year old gay boys, I expect goddamn pictures.

  22. shortsshortsshorts says at 1:29 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    AngryBlakGuy: You apparently don’t live in San Francisco.

  23. Carrie_Okie says at 1:32 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    AngryBlakGuy:
    Um, all chaps are assless. Don’t ask me why I know. It involves your dad.

  24. user-of-owls says at 1:32 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    Any guesses on how many Lava Soap and boric acid showers the guys in the courthouse who told Justin ’she’ had nice skin have taken since the news broke?

  25. ronaldpagan says at 1:32 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    AngryBlakGuy: Don’t forget:

    -Techno waterboarding rooms at every nightclub in America
    -Fewer men trolling for cock in airport bathrooms, leaving Larry Craig sexually unfulfilled
    -”Man on dog”

  26. AxmxZ says at 1:34 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    OMG please let this become a meme. If “Obama is a terrorist” is a meme, why can’t “McCain is a buttfucker’s bride” become a meme?

  27. stankfest says at 1:35 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    Homoxsexuality was the cause of Rome’s demise, and soon it will put the USA into the dustbin of history.

  28. V572625694 says at 1:35 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    Serolf Divad: …certain verbal inflections on the part of the would-be groom…:

    “Wassup, muthafuckin city clerk–just sign the mofuckin license so’s I can marry dis skank-ass bitch, befo I pop a cap in yo ass”

  29. Lionel Hutz Esq. says at 1:36 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    The clerk should have been suspicious when they crossed out “Bride,” and filled in “Bottom.”

  30. AngryBlakGuy says at 1:41 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    Carrie_Okie: …nah, my dad is more ball gag and butt plug kinda of guy. Don’t ask me how I know(it involves your sister, mom and donkey)

  31. ronaldpagan says at 1:42 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    stankfest: Hahaha! Best. Homophobic argument. Ever. “No civilization has embraced homosexuality and lived to tell the tale!”

  32. ronaldpagan says at 1:44 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    AxmxZ: Is that a pair of walnuts in your cheek or are you just happy to see me?

  33. Guppy06 says at 1:47 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    AngryBlakGuy: Actually, I’d gladly allow my tax dollars to be spent on teaching the youth of this great country how to properly perform teh buttsecks.

  34. shortsshortsshorts says at 1:47 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    stankfest: FUCK! How did I miss that?

    It couldn’t be trade deficits? Or chronic militarism? Or crazy inflation? Or a lack of regulation on mortgage robber-barren folk? Or a stubborn refusal to move forward with renewable fuels? OH, maybe its 8 years of overspending and under-taxing?

    NO! ITS TEH GAYZ!!!!!!!!1!

  35. Canmon (the Inadequate) says at 1:47 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    I wonder what could have convinced him that McCain is not a desirable last name.

  36. ServiceJervixJuice says at 1:48 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    If all those haters of gay marriage would just fuckin’ relax, then they could sit back and enjoy
    the likelihood that over 50% of those marriages are going to fail.

  37. ServiceJervixJuice says at 1:49 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    Carrie_Okie: AngryBlakGuy: Are some of your ancestors from the midwest?
    I think our families may be related….

  38. anabellum says at 1:50 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    what ya wanna bet that every heterosexual male in Virginia is doing a lot of hard thinking about that ‘date’ they had a few years ago…

  39. Guppy06 says at 1:51 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    ServiceJervixJuice: How many hetero marriages that go under failed because one or both of them were in the closet?

  40. PoliticalGraffiti says at 1:52 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    why would any queer person want to get married? that’s like trying to normalize themselves with straight people, which obviously suck in comparison

  41. Mumble Softly says at 1:56 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    I bet gay marriages last longer than straight marriages, I mean who in the gay community would ever accuse their spouse of cheating, since they all both have had something like 2750 sex partners and probaly attend gay orgies every sunday night

    PS. I apologize to any gays I may or may not have offended.

    PPS. I like how the name McCain keeps rearing its ugly (but with nice skin) head .

  42. 1974 (again) says at 1:56 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    shortsshortsshorts: They did get married. Then the Commonwealth unmarried them. Just like that: POOF! The Commonwealth declared them not married! Who said Southerners don’t like a strong government?

    Spence: Unless of course you have a pussy yourself. Then you can leave that pussy loving at the door, girlfriend.

  43. PrairiePossum says at 1:57 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    What’s really sad is some 67 year old woman beating, child molesting, alcohol abusing, neanderthal hillbilly could drag his crack addict, 16 year old, battered and bruised pregnant second cousin to the courthouse, ask for a marriage license and the Virginia public officials would rubber stamp the paperwork and send the happy couple on their way.

  44. AngryBlakGuy says at 1:57 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    shortsshortsshorts: …see, what happened was the Roman gays through their gay agenda stretched the empire to thin. They squandered the empires riches on interior decorating and anal pleasure beads. Also by their spreading of gayness the Roman army was poorly prepared to ward off the Germanic barbarian tribes because they were to busy anally fisting each other to bother to train.

  45. Harvey Birdman says at 1:58 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    This story grosses me out. I’m gonna go look at some bear porn.

  46. Redhead says at 1:59 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    ronaldpagan: “McCain, who court employees said appeared to be a woman, presented a Virginia driver’s license and filled out the section of the application labeled “bride.””

    So they didn’t look at the part of his license that says male or female? I’d think that right there would be a pretty big give away….

  47. RuperttheBear says at 2:00 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    shortsshortsshorts: Just applied for a loan and was rejected because my credit report states “SURPRISE BUTTSECS”

  48. loudmouthredhead says at 2:01 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    I bet they caught on when the sky turned black and city water became as blood, right? You know, like it sez in teh Bah-ble?

  49. AngryBlakGuy says at 2:01 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    anabellum: …hey, why do you have to bring that up!? I was dunk I swear!!!

  50. tsunami says at 2:05 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    PrairiePossum: 16? did you say 16? are you sure?

    just askin. i mean, me and my cousin can get down there in a
    couple hours, but with gas costing what it does…and with thelma
    smokin all those rocks…

    are you really sure, cause she turns 16 next month.
    let me know. thank you kindly

  51. ServiceJervixJuice says at 2:06 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    Guppy06: I haven’t yet encountered any estimations on the percentage of failed marriages which your scenario represents, but I believe the whole divorce issue has less to do with sexuality and more to do with “familiarity breeds contempt”.

  52. NebraskashireGentry says at 2:08 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    stankfest: but the decades immediately preceding Rome’s downfall were by far its most fabulous…at some point every culture chooses between blandness that lasts or unsustainable excess.

    Britain and China chose the former. Rome and America, the latter.

    sure, we didn’t “win” in the end…or did we? we’re no longer relevant but everyone certainly had a lot of fun getting us here. now someone else can address the problems Americans don’t have the know-how, resources or desire to fix.

  53. Mumble Softly says at 2:12 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    AngryBlakGuy: Is angry black guy really black or just a wigger?

  54. AngryBlakGuy says at 2:14 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    PrairiePossum: …you had a few typos, so Im gonna help you out!

    -”second cousin”; no self respecting redneck would marry someone with that MUCH genetic diversity.

    -”crack addict”; crack is too exotic and made from cocaine which is IMPORTED! Redneck hill-billy’s use good ‘ol homemade METH!!! USA! USA! USA!

    -”16 year old”; sixteen is waaaaaay too old. By sixteen she would be a grandmother, more like 14!

    -”battered and bruised pregnant”; you left out barefoot.

    …consider this your first warning, next time I wont be so polite!

  55. RuperttheBear says at 2:15 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    NebraskashireGentry: I hate to be all douchey, but if you’re interested in why homosexuality didn’t have anything to do with the fall of Rome you can read John Boswell’s book “Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality” and I apologize again for being all douchey and serious.

    http://books.google.com/books?id=gBiBSaZrZ8IC&pg=PP1&dq=inauthor:John+inauthor:Boswell&sig=ACfU3U0u6krRu3PDa3dfe3xQY5loVEPzzA

  56. superfecta says at 2:17 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    Delicious: Was it the Skin So Soft? Not only does it make their skin and hair soft and shiny (almost like steroids!), it works well as a fly repellent.

  57. AngryBlakGuy says at 2:17 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    Mumble Softly: …yes I am of the African American persuasion! Would you like to see my penis to prove it? If so may I suggest you step back a couple feet from your computer screen, I dont want to poke your eye out.

  58. GayInMaine says at 2:19 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    Mumble Softly: Actually, the orgies are on Saturday nights. Sunday is for brunch, dear.

  59. shortsshortsshorts says at 2:20 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    RuperttheBear: That damned Assfucking Provision Loan Act of 2003?

  60. PrairiePossum says at 2:20 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    AngryBlakGuy:

    You’re right. I will practice my snark skills over the long weekend.

  61. Mumble Softly says at 2:24 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    GayInMaine: I stand corrected. But am I otherwise right in my position that gay marriages will outlast straight ones?

    AngryBlakGuy: A couple of feet? This angry black man must believe himself to have the world’s biggest penis, I applaud you, now call guiness world records, post haste !!

  62. shortsshortsshorts says at 2:30 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    AngryBlakGuy: WAIT? You are REALLY BLACK? SHIT!!!! SHIT I AM AFRAID. PLEASE DO NOT ROB ME.

    Umm. Wassup there brother. Would you like to chill in my hood with me?
    There now I AM NOT AFRAID. I AM ONE OF YOU now.

    Mumble Softly: His throbbing member makes up 85% of all solid matter.

  63. AngryBlakGuy says at 2:31 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    Mumble Softly: …they are still debating whether its a partially formed 3rd leg or parasitic twin.

  64. RuperttheBear says at 2:32 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    shortsshortsshorts: My car was repossassed.

  65. pondscum says at 2:33 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    AngryBlakGuy: Can I watch?!? Please?!

  66. confusionanddelay< says at 2:37 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    My marriage was feeling unusually meaningless lately. Good to know it was just the gays again.

  67. AngryBlakGuy says at 2:42 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    shortsshortsshorts: …actually my penis is the so-called “dark matter”(damn racist astrophysicists) that makes up 95% of the universe.

    …and I cant wait to hear racist using “Im not racist…I voted for Obama” line!!!

    pondscum: …bring your googles!

  68. AngryBlakGuy says at 2:43 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    pondscum: …damn it I meant “goggles”

  69. Mumble Softly says at 2:45 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    shortsshortsshorts: Actually, I am skeptical of angryblakguy’s claims of blackness and enormous genitalia. His posts reflect a certain jai’ ne sai quos, not commonly found among our darker brethren (with exception of Obama, and he is only 50% negro). And further, I have never read him type the common “wherez all da white women at?” refrain in his posts. Me smells a wigger.
    Can we ask the moderator for a poll on angryblakguy’s blackness? I mean is he black enough?

  70. AngryBlakGuy says at 2:53 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    Mumble Softly: …”GOD DAMN AMERICA!!!” Believe me now?

  71. I dub this scheme the ‘Trojan Bride’. Bwahahaahahhaah..*cough*. So wrong. Anyway, it’s cool until somebody stuffs a sheep into a mannikin …well, that’s cruel unless you give proper consideration to air holes and surely not mentally healthy for Flopsy if you consider sheep to have brains at all..um..where was I?

    In conclusion: Trojan Bride. Totally.

  72. NebraskashireGentry says at 2:54 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    RuperttheBear:

    now I feel douchey.

    I feel I should clarify: I don’t think any one circumstance could be blamed for the fall of an empire (not even over-use of throw pillows) and, if it could, I would consider the evils of homosexuality tied with God’s will for the least likely cause of aforementioned downfall–well, MAYBE God’s will would be the “absolute least likely”.

    I was talking about the American tendency toward over-consumption in general…not at all as it relates to any one subset in particular. and not even that is more than partially to blame for our current situation.

    whatever.

    thanks for the recommendation, though I’m certain a book of that nature has been banned by one government agency or another around these parts.

  73. KevoTron says at 3:06 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    Mumble Softly: Well he’s definitely angry.

  74. shortsshortsshorts says at 3:09 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    AngryBlakGuy: “I’m not a racist! I voted for Ron Paul!”

  75. loquaciousmusic says at 3:20 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    GOD CREATED ADAM AND EVE, NOT ANTONIO AND PENELOPSKY!

  76. Mumble Softly says at 3:21 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    AngryBlakGuy: Oh come on, has anybody even seen a picture of that reverend Wright?
    The dude looks whiter than I am , what with his light skin and jheri curl straightened hair, so your damnation of america just makes you bitter, not necessarily black

    KevoTron: I bet he’s angry cause we have exposed his non blackness

  77. ronaldpagan says at 3:27 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    Mumble Softly: I think he’s pretty blak, but he’s definitely no Nader.

  78. Mumble Softly says at 3:31 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    ronaldpagan: Nader is a true to life ARAB (look it up)
    No wonder he tries to ruin all of our elections. I wonder why he doesnt support Obama though?

  79. NotUrEvryDayWEzl says at 3:34 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    stankfest: It’s funny, cause we always hear that. This is because Christians don’t believe in time (or gravity). When Rome did accept homos, they were expanding, all rich and sexy-like. Then came Christianity and the utterly BORING years of Roman history when they did nothing. Then some germans decided to spice things up and take over Europe.

  80. pinko-commie says at 4:03 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    I have news for the right wing judgmentalists - limiting marriage to a man and woman does not make it sacred. Case in point, I (as a female) could marry Penelopsky Aaryonna Goldberry (Aka Justin McCain) tomorrow, even though I don’t even know him. What in the world would make our union sanctified? I must say, however, that I do already love Penelopsky, if only for his sense of humor and clever subversion of the system. Subvert! Subvert!

  81. Lionel Hutz Esq. says at 4:09 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    NotUrEvryDayWEzl: Actually, there is far more evidence that Christianity destroyed Rome than anything else. Does no one read Gibbons any more?

  82. shortsshortsshorts says at 4:14 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    Lionel Hutz Esq.: I always thought that Christianity and AA turned the willful into goo.

  83. ronaldpagan says at 4:26 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    pinko-commie: If you want to marry Penelopsky, you’re gonna have to fight me for him.

  84. Doglessliberal says at 4:27 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    Lionel Hutz Esq.: Christianity destroyed a lot. It had a stunnigly destructive run there for a few hundred years after the Church decided that priests couldn’t marry anymore and everyone they didn’t like was a heretic.

  85. NotUrEvryDayWEzl says at 4:31 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    Lionel Hutz Esq.: That’s what I said.

  86. 2goats says at 4:51 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    This here limitation of marriage stuff ‘n’ nonsense is creating problems here in the Old Dominion. Penelopsky and his husband not really trail blazers. ’bout 10 years ago here in Alexandria, Virginia, Geo. Washington’s home town, “The Fun Side of the Potomac” ™, a couple got a license got married. They were both girl people, but only one knew that (or so the other claimed under oath and all). At some point, many days after Judge Colby joined them in state recognized union, the bride “discovered” that the putative groom had all the same equipment. She got herself an annulment right quick, and the Commonwealth’s Attorney made the executive decision we didn’t need any further proceedings. Would have embarrassed the judge, the clerk and the bride.

    But it’s a true fact that my hetero marriage went down the tubes shortly after that. And I never wrote to thank those two.

    Shortly after all that, the oldest deliberative legislature in the western hemisphere took steps to protect us by getting us not just a law, but a Constitutional Amendment, to protect us.

  87. Lazy Media says at 5:44 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    user-of-owls: None. Every local courthouse staffer in America is a woman or a gay dude.

  88. Doglessliberal says at 5:53 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    2goats: I know I sure feel safer and more protected knowing that the VA Constitution prevents teh Geys from causing ruination in my marriage.

    Did Judge Colby ever learn that he married two people of the female persuasion?

  89. Redhead says at 11:16 pm, July 2nd, 2008

    Mumble Softly: I think you mean “je ne sais quoi” instead of “jai’ ne sai quos.” It literally translates to “I don’t know what” in French.

  90. Carrie_Okie says at 8:45 am, July 3rd, 2008

    AngryBlakGuy: That donkey consented! I have proof. It involves Belgian snuff films and your aunt Sukie. But everyone knows that story.

  91. gurukalehuru says at 8:55 am, July 3rd, 2008

    Not only the same last name, but the same first initial! Do you think the elder J. McCain had purty skin when he was 18?

  92. divinedajji says at 9:32 am, July 3rd, 2008

    Newport News?! Damn. And for a while there, all they were known for was Allen Iverson’s bowling alley rampage and Michael Vick’s dog fighting.
    We’re clearly moving up in the world. I’m so proud.

  93. Mumble Softly says at 9:47 am, July 3rd, 2008

    Redhead: Muchas gracias senora

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