Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg today claimed that the Defense of Marriage Act essentially creates two classes of marriage: whole and “skim-milk marriage”. And we all know that skim milk is better for your health than whole milk. Justice Ginsburg is clearly stating here that gay marriage is healthier than straight marriage with this milk metaphor. So is this how gay marriage threatens traditional marriage: by showing it to be full of fat and higher in calories? But you know, whole milk tastes a lot better than skim milk, so then that’s an insult to gay marriage. So, is she saying gay marriage is in bad taste? And is she saying straight marriage is more wholesome, comparing it to whole milk? Why, I’m surprised at her! I thought she was accepting of others! Unless she means that gay marriage is the whole milk, and straight marriage is the skim milk, in which case she would essentially be calling gay marriage “unhealthy”. But wait, isn’t whole milk better for children, because their brains need more fatty stuff to develop? Wow, there sure are lots of layers of implied criticism to her milk metaphor, huh? She must be trying to influence us all subliminally. And to think the Supreme Court banned subliminal stuff in ads, and now they’re using it to influence us: pretty sneaky there, Justice Ginsburg!
(Of course this is all just a silly joke, twisting her words to mean something else entirely. You know, like the cable news channels do all the time. And by the way, I support gay marriage whole-heartedly, and I’m kind of irked the Supreme Court hasn’t ruled it an issue of equal rights under the law yet. But hopefully they will.)
Here’s the milky marriage message (It’s in the third paragraph):
