5/31/03

What gets me about this article is this quote from Bishop Daniel P. Reilly of Worcester :

''It is not an anti-anything statement, but a reminder that marriage holds a unique role in the history of mankind and should be respected for what it is, a union of a man and a woman who seek to live a new life focused on the best interests of that new couple and their potential family, not just each other's personal interests.''

This coming from a religion that sanctions shot gun weddings. Many times these sort of marriages end up abusive and destructive to the entire family not to mention self serving. Hetros marry for all sorts of "personal interests" money, immigration, sex, et al. Same sex marriage is not going to all of a sudden pervert marriage. Same sex couples marry (or wish to) for the same reason many hetros marry...because they love one another and want to commit to each other life long.

It all boils down to the rights that married couples enjoy that so many "conservatives" wish to deny homosexuals (inheritance, health coverage, et al) in order degrade their social status. When you degrade some one's social status then big hetro white man won't have to worry about living near a hated social group. Just lovely.

Frank Herbert said it best, "Fear is the mind killer." Because it is different, it is an object to be feared, thus it is to be degraded and pushed as far away as possible. Fear is what separates us from non-conscious animals.

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