Kill me now - I'm turning Republican. Poll hypocrisy.

Not really, you fool! Christ, I'd kill myself first.

But, I just read a story on Wonkette about Stacey Campfield (Turd in a punchbowl, TN) being refused service in a restaurant in response to his retarded, false, idiotic, and let's just cap it off with plain old bugfuck stupid rantings on AIDS and homosexuality.

Of course the media, in their quest for knowledge and to give the impression that they give a rat's ass about people's opinions on anything, posted a highly scientific and accurate poll with the story. Go vote now, I'll wait.

This got me thinking about other polls of the very same nature I've voted in. Jessica Ahlquist was recently refused service from florists in her hometown as a result of her battle to have a religious prayer mural removed from her school. There were polls all over the place on whether the judge had ruled correctly that the banner was unconstitutional and whether the florists were being buttholes. Unsurprisingly, the results were yes and yes. Well, maybe it is surprising in the current climate in the country, but I digress.

This got me wondering whether my hypocrisy is based solely on my ideologies - I believe strongly in the separation of church and state and resent the hell out of anyone shoving a particular dogma in my face and expecting me to honor it, and so I am sympathetic to Jessica Ahlquist and admire her guts.  I also resent the hell out of homophobic miscreants and am sick to death of hearing their stupidity -- no, of even knowing they still exist -- and so it shickled the tit right out of me to hear that someone had smacked Campfield down.

I have no problem self-justifying my feelings as moral, but can't decide if that also justifies the hypocrisy. In one case a young girl was having abuse heaped on her for defending her constitutional right to not be subtly coerced into accepting Christianity as part of her public education. In the other case, a grown elected official will be voting on legislation that will directly affect the lives of LGBTI people, and that legislation will be based on his imbecilic, pea-brained, factually-wrong beliefs.

My point here is that I was outraged at the florist's refusal to deliver orders to Jessica Ahlquist. I was gleeful at the restaurant owner's refusal to serve Campfield. Two identical situations with two polar responses from me.

Hmm.