This issue is a mind-numbing example of mankind's ability to dwell on a completely human construct. Marriage is an article of language with many meanings, none of which have anything to do with the laws of physics or the quality of one couple's life at the expense of another's.
Sheesh... Let dogs marry goldfish. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Moen Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 2:48 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Basfa] Relevance Quoting Adrienne Foster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I agree on this point, but unlike other issues, prop 8 does have some > relevance to BASFA. And, as I point out in my "Kudzu and the Marriage Amendment" essay, there's something like a 1 in 500 chance that this initiative could invalidate _my_ traditional marriage -- or that of almost any randomly selected Californian. About 100,000 Californians with non-obvious developmental or genetic anomalies _are_ in that boat. They just don't (in most cases) know who they are. Am I one of them? Is Deirdre? Is Pam? We don't know. I could be a man with a transported SRY bloc, or with CAH, or with XXY, and not know it until incidental genetic typing revealed it. You could be a woman with CAIS, gonadal dysgenesis, or Swyer syndrome, and not know it -- until a judge suddenly tells you you're not married any more. In that sense, if no other, this anti-family legislation has personal relevance to you, me, and Mr. or Ms. J. Random BASFAn. _______________________________________________ Basfa mailing list [email protected] http://lists.basfa.org/listinfo.cgi/basfa-basfa.org _______________________________________________ Basfa mailing list [email protected] http://lists.basfa.org/listinfo.cgi/basfa-basfa.org
