You want your war? Well here it is.

You want your war? Well here it is.

I wrote this back in the fall of 03’…. Basically it’s an argument mocking several of the “Right’s” arguments against legalizing gay marriage. My main point was that when someone can “Get married in a drive thru, while intoxicated, by Elvis,” marriage has no sanctity left. Well, only a few short months later Britney Spears went out and proved my point by marrying her friend, while drunk, in Vegas, and therefore gaining roughly 1000 more rights then a gay couple who has been together for 10 years.

So now it appears my precognitive abilities are being put to the test again. This time it is in regards to my recent post concerning reversing Roe v. Wade. South Dakota is now about to pass a law making abortion illegal with the expectation that it will be challenged, re-challenged, and taken to the new Supreme Court.

So, I guess we will now see if I was correct in predicting a huge backlash against the right for trying this as , I’ll say it once again, A HIGH MAJORITY OF AMERICANS SUPPORT LEGALIZED ABORTION!

With that said my prediction is that the Supreme Court will avoid this issue as much as possible and do their best to not rule on it.

Cheers, Yo.


"Tuesday the Massachusetts’ Supreme Court ruled that their state is required to offer some form of law allowing gay marriage within the next 180 days. Now being a proponent of civil unions granting full legal rights (and penalties) to gays I thought this was a great step forward. Of course, not everyone agrees with me and the usual groups came out either praising or vilifying the decision. And of course you had the obligatory poll on what America thinks of gay marriage, and some conservative politician complaining about how the judiciary over steps its bounds. (Funny how they didn’t mention how activist judges are nowadays during the Florida election debacle, but that’s another argument.) And then you have the lawyers from GLAAD saying how this is a step forward for human rights and whatnot. (At this point I don’t even think they write up new press releases, I think they just change the name of the state involved.)

The one argument that inevitably comes out though that never ceases to amaze me is:”This decision destroys the sanctity of marriage.” Now I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but, traditional conservative marriage in America has no sanctity left. Sorry. Right now we have a 50+% divorce rate, and the number of people choosing to cohabitate rather than marry grows every year (heck, there’s even a new trend of “starter marriages,” marriages that are intended only to “discover one’s self.”) Then you have TV shows such as “Married by America,” “Who wants to marry a millionaire?” and of course, “Temptation Island.” And then to top it all off, there’s Vegas, where you can get married in a drive thru, while intoxicated, by Elvis!

So what we have now is an institution that is so sanctified that Allie and I, who were childhood sweethearts, had known each other for 8 years, and already were sharing our lives together, have the same validity attached to our marriage as the aforementioned Vegas couple who just met, got drunk, and got married by Elvis. So basically what were left with here is an institution that seems to have very little to do with the idea of a loving, lifelong relationship between two people. It seems now to have almost taken on the idea of a “promise ring,” or a way of saying you love someone a lot but your not sure you want to spend the rest of your life with them.

Now I personally fail to see how two men or women who decide to commit themselves in a loving relationship for the rest of their lives is such a problem with all of these other things going on, but my question is: Why aren’t those who make this argument going after everything else demeaning marriage? Where are the protests against FOX? Why do thousands of Conservatives go to Vegas each year? Why do they watch TV for that matter? I guess my big question is, why is this argument used to attack such a small portion of our society when this same problem is so widespread?

Maybe it’s my years of experience in customer service, or all the time I’ve spent working with kids, but I’m one of those people who believes in just getting to the heart of the matter. If you don’t want gays to have civil unions or marriage or the ability to get family discounts at national parks that’s your right to believe that, but just be honest on the reason, or at least be consistent."