Rep. Barney Frank is always decrying the congresspersons who claim that gay marriage will undermine the sacrament of marriage, but then go cheat on their spouses. Well, there isn’t any gay marriage in the Bible, but there is plenty of adultery, so it must be okay. Putting aside all issues of religion and Biblical justification for the moment, the basic problem seems to be that many people just don’t believe that two men or two women can love each other with the same depth that a man and a woman can, or raise non-screwed up children. Horse hockey, I say. I once loved a woman enough to marry her, I will probably do it again. Aha, you say, “loved”, past tense. Didn’t work out, did it? See, there you go. Lesbian love is by nature a hedonistic and transient thing, and can never result in life-long commitment. Right. And I suppose every single straight person you know is doing better? Hah. Cecil’s most recent column gave the best summary of this subject that I’ve seen so far, and I think everybody should read it. Perhaps certain well-publicized same-sex couples (like the interesting family grouping who graced the cover of Rolling Stone a while back) will help change things, perhaps not. I do believe in the slow creeping flow of enlightenment, though, and I believe that one day, with luck and action in the appropriate places, I will be able to marry the girl of my dreams.
An infinite number of rednecks in an infinite number of pickup trucks shooting an infinite number of shotguns at an infinite number of road signs will eventually produce all the world’s great works of literature in Braille.
Go for it.