Tiresome, pointless, unnecessary, stupid -- do I have to go on?
From the New York Times: "Last July, Kelly White and her boyfriend became engaged. They had a cozy picnic of wine and cheese on a hill before he presented her with a watermelon-flavor Ring Pop and asked her to marry him. “I’d rather not say if he got down on one knee or not,” she said. “It’s embarrassing.”
But they won’t end up at the altar anytime soon: they said they would not marry until gay and lesbian couples are also allowed to.
“I usually explain that I wouldn’t go to a lunch counter that wouldn’t allow people of color to eat there, so why would I support an institution that won’t allow everyone to take part,” said Ms. White, 24, a law student at the University of California, Davis. “Sometimes people don’t buy that analogy.”
Whether it makes sense or not, some heterosexual couples…
Wake me up when they've stopped being annoying. Leo Abse, a Labour Member of Parliament for Cardiff North and notable British eccentric (his books written in retirement include: Fellatio, Masochism, Politics and Love, and Tony Blair: The Man who lost his Smile) fought to decriminalize homosexual acts in Britain, understood the need to present homosexuals as unfortunate misfits deserving of pity, not evil perverts, to Parliament, in order for MPs to support the reforming bill into law (it was not uncommon for MPs who publicly leaned in favor of decriminalizing homosexual acts to be targeted by blackmailers). But of course Abse didn't really think of homosexuals as pitiful misfits lurking perpetually in shadowy public toilets. In this story from the New York Times, I can't help but feel that some straight people are motivated by a concern that even though it is genuine, smacks of pity, and there's a universe of rage generated by someone coming up to you and saying "I feel so sorry for you... let me make a gesture that resembles a condescending pat on the head. There, there... feeling better?"
A debate about 'gay marriage' in the USA might have, in a more perfect world, been opened up to discuss marriage in general, and what an almighty failure it often has been everywhere. Across the country, lemming-like hoards of gay couples have surged through states where some form of legally-permissible gay intertwining is on offer, waving placards and wearing ridiculous costumes, anything to clamber aboard the marital omnibus that for centuries has been a half-assed arrangement at very best. No thanks.
But they won’t end up at the altar anytime soon: they said they would not marry until gay and lesbian couples are also allowed to.
“I usually explain that I wouldn’t go to a lunch counter that wouldn’t allow people of color to eat there, so why would I support an institution that won’t allow everyone to take part,” said Ms. White, 24, a law student at the University of California, Davis. “Sometimes people don’t buy that analogy.”
Whether it makes sense or not, some heterosexual couples…
Wake me up when they've stopped being annoying. Leo Abse, a Labour Member of Parliament for Cardiff North and notable British eccentric (his books written in retirement include: Fellatio, Masochism, Politics and Love, and Tony Blair: The Man who lost his Smile) fought to decriminalize homosexual acts in Britain, understood the need to present homosexuals as unfortunate misfits deserving of pity, not evil perverts, to Parliament, in order for MPs to support the reforming bill into law (it was not uncommon for MPs who publicly leaned in favor of decriminalizing homosexual acts to be targeted by blackmailers). But of course Abse didn't really think of homosexuals as pitiful misfits lurking perpetually in shadowy public toilets. In this story from the New York Times, I can't help but feel that some straight people are motivated by a concern that even though it is genuine, smacks of pity, and there's a universe of rage generated by someone coming up to you and saying "I feel so sorry for you... let me make a gesture that resembles a condescending pat on the head. There, there... feeling better?"
A debate about 'gay marriage' in the USA might have, in a more perfect world, been opened up to discuss marriage in general, and what an almighty failure it often has been everywhere. Across the country, lemming-like hoards of gay couples have surged through states where some form of legally-permissible gay intertwining is on offer, waving placards and wearing ridiculous costumes, anything to clamber aboard the marital omnibus that for centuries has been a half-assed arrangement at very best. No thanks.
posted by Stephen at December 11, 2006
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