Well that is a novel direction.
This is an odd day. (Okay, I don’t need lectures about the non-probative value of anecdotes).
Two proposals, and one of them is actually serious. One of my two casual girlfriends is bisexual and has been following the thread as I write and watching me work.
She says she is extremely impressed (after reading Bricker’s Jones thread) that the exact words I used arguing there were used by a Supreme Court majority in taking the law in a new direction.
She also says that she had previously never understood what marriage is about–and was not ever interested in being married. She says I illuminated the whole thing for her and made it actually interesting–marriage as the idea of iondividual rights didn’t seem to take her anywhere–but understanding it as a societal duty gives her a reason to want to do it.
She weeps over her abortion at 17 years old and says I have done what no man even gave her a hint needed doing before.
I am mindful that if I were addressing her instead of the board, this may not have happened.
One young person’s (she is 19) mind was greatly changed today.
For those of you who are sincere, see you next time if there is one. I’m bowing out. Wish me luck, for now I have to contemplate the first and only time a woman has proposed to me.
I do not like myself when I rail about the evils of specific others. Forgive me, Marley.