What disturbs me most, some days, about anti-GLBT politics, is the
enormous amount of time it takes away from the real business of elected
officials and civil service employees. Their business is to solve
problems for the population, not create them on company time, as it were.
I suspect that, within not too long a time, there will be discoveries
stemming from the Human Genome Project that show sexual identity to have
genetic markers. Scientists have already discovered that there is
hanky-panky going on among female fruit flies. When this happens, are we
then going to go through another Copernicus routine, slicing and dicing
scientists who insist that the earth revolves around the sun or that
sexual identity has a genetic determinant? It would seem so.
An example: We're still piddling around with evolution (proposed as a
certainty in the late 19th century, the theory being natural selection
as far as Darwin was concerned) and something called "intelligent
design," a notion absurd on the face of it. It is clear, if one follows
enough humans through the life cycle, from our helplessness for years
after birth to our agonies from the effect of gravity on our bones and
flesh and all the steps in between, that our design as a species does
not necessarily show superior intelligence. Nor is it the feathered,
gilled, or four-leggeds who created, out of their intelligent design,
the atom bomb or any other weapons of mass destruction. Worse yet, it is
not the business of government to decide, since whether it is or is not
intelligent, government's job is to consider what to do with the
conundrums of the people either way, repair the roads and keep the
police and fire departments working, and keep a civil relationship with
other countries.
At this moment, one of the big stressors for the entire state is the
cost of home heating oil. If we are intelligently designed, and living
in the frozen north as we do, we are paying very close attention to that
issue, to the exclusion of lesser subjects. Is that what's happening? I
don't think so. Thousands of households have no idea whether or not they
can afford the cost of heating through the winter. Even though Xcel
cannot shut off the heat til spring, they can shut it off then, then
turn around and charge another fortune to turn it back on IF the money
to pay the back bill is supplied from some source. Thousands of
households may not be able to cope. How does this affect young families
with babies? Seniors? Fixed income households? It's not as though that
many families have so much in wages that they can afford to pay the
inflated rates and still live in a building and feed themselves.
So long as legislators, from the least public office to the big kahuna
of offices, who have better sense than the anti-GLBT forces, have to
spend time countering this mouse ca-ca, anti-GLBT forces are wasting
government time and money fiddling while Rome burns.
Intelligent design my Aunt Fanny!
WizardMarks, Central
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