At 10:55 AM 5/17/2004 -0500 Dan Minette wrote:
>A few months ago, JDG predicted that the recent push for gay marriages
>would trigger a massive backlash. The opposite seems to be happening. 51%
>of Americans favor either civil unions or actual marriage for gay people,
>while 44% favor no legal recognition. (28% favor marriages and 23% favor
>civil unions). So, it appears that civil unions, which were controversial
>10 years ago, is emerging as a new middle ground.
Ahem.
1) I neve included oposition to civil unions in my predictions of backlash.
Indeed, I have consistently predicted that civil unions would likely
prove to be inevitable.
2) It should be noted that most pollsters view polling on this issue to be
notoriously unreliable.
3) We still have yet to see many major politicians endorse gay marriages.
4) Whatever your position on gay marriage, today is unquestionably a sad
day for American democracy. An unelected judiciary has issued a law for
the State of Massachusetts that is completely contrary to what the
representatives and politicians of Massachusetts believed they were
agreeing to as part of passing that State's Constitution. Moreover, this
decision now appears likely to produce the ludicrous result of legalizing
gay marriages in Massachusetts for a period of 2-3 years, until "government
by the people for the people" can finally be restored by referendum in 2006.
5) For all the talk about gay marriages "strengthening" the institution of
marriage, I could only laugh when I read the comments of the very *first*
couple to get married in one Massachusetts town:
Yarbrough, a part-time bartender who plans to wear leather pants, tuxedo
shirt, and leather vest during the half-hour ceremony, has gotten hitched
to Rogahn, a retired school superintendent, first in a civil commitment in
Minnesota, then in Canada, and now in Massachusetts, the first U.S. state
to recognize gay marriage.
But he says the concept of forever is``overrated'' and that he, as a
bisexual, and Rogahn, who is gay, have chosen to enjoy an open marriage.
``I think it's possible to love more than one person and have more than one
partner, not in the polygamist sense,'' he said.``In our case, it is, we
have, an open marriage.''
http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=28184
JDG - "Strengthening", Maru
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