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When I was 46 I started writing essays on life, or the state of
the human condition as I once called it. Because I was halfway
between old enough to vote (21) and planned retirement (72) it
was known as the "Halfway Point" series of essays.
Later when I mentioned the essays in one context or another on USENET, I got requests for copies and eventually for future essays. Thus the mailing list was born, and it moved to the Internet when that became widely available. At that time I moved to writing on a schedule, the 1st, 11th, and 21st of the month.
Now the trend is to "blogs," and read on demand. I am therefore making this available as a blog, and we shall see if people read it here, or by mail, or not at all.
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Sun, 03 Jul 2011
CapdistNY - Thoughts on Gay Marriage (12:42)
Just a few thoughts on the legalization of gay marriage in New York. First, it s the proper thing to do, although I am amazed that it
passed in the Senate with so many assorted fringe groups opposed.
But in the long run, more people would have remembered a vote
against that will remember a vote for. Unless, of course the sky
does fall because gay people get married. The people who benefit
will still be gay, the merchants will still be selling weddings,
wedding rings, honeymoons, receptions, etc. The bigots will be
busy trying to make some other thing they don't do illegal.
I note with amazement that the Catholic Church manages to
believe the pedophile priests should be protected, but gay people,
consenting, are unacceptable. Bishops who deny communion to those
"living in sin" or "voting for perversion" moved priests to new
parishes, bribed witnesses (they called it civil settlement, I
don't), just amaze me. When it's my turn to be God for a day,
pedophiles and those who protect them get a "go directly to Hell,
do not pass GO" card in the great Monopoly game in the sky.
I have said before that the state should only do civil unions,
and leave marriage to be a religious or social ceremony. I stand
by that, but I realize that all the laws which convey rights and
duties on married people would have to be rewritten, etc. And just
as a Constitutional amendment banning gay marriage would never
pass, neither could one explicitly allowing it. We couldn't even
pass the Equal Rights amendment to give women rights.
I look forward to your letters.
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