Senate GOP's Gay Fear Factor Fever

PageOneQ brings us a remake of Peggy Lee's "Fever" from Paul Hipp, which parodies the Senate GOP's efforts to write discrimination into the U.S. Constitution against gays and lesbians through the enactment of the Family Marriage Amendment (FMA), which the Republican majority rail-roaded through the Senate Judiciary Committee last week in a committee meeting room that was so small it didn't even have enough seats to accommodate all of the members, let alone permit access to the public.

Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA), who chairs the Judiciary Committee, actually opposes the FMA, but he was a willing accomplice in the GOP's backroom deal led by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) to bring FMA to the floor for a vote so the Christian right can have an up or down (you're either with us or against us) vote to use in this November's election.

Click here to listen to the song. It's quite funny and quite sad at the same time. The lyrics are posted below:

With elections round the corner
When the voters start to care
About the mess we have created
We give you issues that aren't even there

We give you Homosexual marriage
Gonna wreck your family's life
Gay men want your husbands
Lesbians will steal your wife

Lies lit up the daytime
Till bombs lit up the night
Bin Laden sleeps in a cave somewhere
While in Iraq our soldiers die and fight

We give you Homosexual marriage
Gonna wreck your family's life
Gay men want your husbands
Lesbians will steal your wife

Billy Frist and Arlen Spector
Know the votes are just not there
Orrin Hatch said "Go tell all of your wives"
In his sacred Mormon underwear

Gas will be four bucks a gallon
Katrina's wrath is still unfixed
The deficit is at an all-time high
While Republicans play politics

They give us Homosexual marriage
Gonna wreck your family's life
Gay men want your husbands
Lesbians will steal your wife

With scandal all around us
Indictments everywhere you look
We ask ourselves what would Jesus do?
He'd said "Hey! Look out, what's that over there"

It must be Homosexual marriage
Gonna wreck your family's life
Gay men want your husbands
Lesbians will steal your wife

Just remember there's a price paid
For each inflammatory thing you say
Mathew Sheppard's safe in heaven dead
How many other souls will have to pay

You give them Homosexual marriage
It won't affect your family's life
Gay men don't want your husband
Lesbians won't steal your wife

By Paul Hipp