Contractors came. House painted. Wife happy. Thanks to you all for commiserating. I wish I were showing, because I am totally not beyond using pregnancy as a tool to get a contractor in the door faster.
I have to switch back to politics for a minute.
So all this talk about the election vote being "values-based", and some recent rumblings in my local blog-o-sphere has gotten me interested, again, in the topic of gay marriage. Because I just cannot conceive that the slight majority of Americans are so innately homophobic as to enact
counter-civil rights legislation against homosexuals, I put on my Google Goggles and spent some time researching any legally legitimate concern that the other side might have against gay marriage.
I started to summarize my findings, but it turned out to be a super-long and super-boring entry. It appears that the most "viable" argument against gay marriage is the "slippery slope" argument.
So here you go: the absolute best (if slanted, fine) summary of the gay marriage rights arguments and counter-arguments that I have found are listed here, in a Slate magazine article:
http://slate.msn.com/id/2100824/
Enjoy.
Posted at 7:30 pm by Suburbia
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Sit10
November 16, 2004 10:03 PM PST
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2004/10/31/walking_the_walk_on_family_values/
"The 10 Southern states with some of the highest divorce rates were Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Texas. By comparison nine states in the Northeast were among those with the lowest divorce rates: Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont."
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Patrick M Brennan
November 16, 2004 09:43 AM PST
12 Reasons Same-Sex Marriage Will Ruin Society:
http://gatorgsa.org/gaymarriage.html
A brilliant and very funny deconstruction of all the crap arguments. Example:
5. Heterosexual marriage has been around for a long time, and it hasn't changed at all: women are property, Blacks can't marry Whites, and divorce is illegal.
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CuriouslyMad
November 15, 2004 08:58 PM PST
There ARE no rational reasons against gay marriage. It's 100% predjudice, biased, crap.
And this in no way implies that the majority of the American public won't embrace it wholeheartedly. Because people just refuse to think rationally. |
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