Geeze. So much going on in the world these days. First we have Karl Rove and the entire Bush Administration doing the Slip N Slide Polka to avoid prosecution for giving up Valerie Plame's identify as a CIA agent. Rove will get away with it because American's don't care anymore. I'll bet the majority of them don't even know what this is about. This isn't the Nixon years. To many American's, the former president's getting a blow job from a young aide and trying to sweep it under the carpet was an impeachable offence, deserving of spending billions of dollars to prosecute. But a president's starting an illegal war and flagrantly lying to Congress and the American people to justify it is just Oh Hum stuff. No need to get upset about that. Boys will be boys.
Also, no one seems to be very upset that a bill is coming to a vote in the Senate that will give the FBI a blanket subpoena to stick its nose into every American's personal affairs without getting an ok from a judge beforehand. So what if those pesky devils want to check how and where I spend my money, what I read, what videos I buy, or anything else they feel like digging into about me?
The average American thinks none of the above will disturb their lives. But we'd better change the Constitution so that gay and lesbian couples can't marry. After all, the President says this is an attack on the foundation of morality itself. Now, THAT's important!! Especially since our president is such a highly moral man. So I guess that's what I should write about.
Everyone knows I enjoy reading and commenting on Letters To The Editor in the local rag - the Arizona Republic. Yesterday there was another juicy tidbit. Mr. Arthur C. Riedmann of Phoenix writes:
The recent letters decrying the discrimination involving the issue of same-sex marriage are missing the point.
If discrimination exists, look at nature as the culprit.
A quick look will indicate there is a difference between a man and a woman. It is their union that produces a family, with a family's responsibilities, and is the means for continuing the human race. This has been recognized by societies since time began.
The same-sex advocates wish to have all the benefits of marriage, both monetary and social, without the responsibilities. Violation of nature's laws never produces a good result, nor does it produce a marriage.
Great stuff, eh? In a few short sentences, ol' Art has cleared up the whole issue for us. God bless bleu cheese. If I close my eyes, I can see Art receiving a Preserve America Presidential Award from the very hand of King George II himself.
Yes, it's all Nature's fault. Damn them gay penguins, apes, rams, fruit flies, and over 200 other various species, including humans, which Nature (God?) has seen fit to make homosexual. Sometimes I'm sure Art can't sleep at night thinking about them black-rumped flamebacks who are often seen mating with males but never with females, and sexually deviant birds like those male black swans that court each other and mate for life. Imagine!! Beak to genital sex.
What was Nature thinking?? Isn't mating for life marriage?! Isn't that a "good result?" Geeze, Art might be wrong. Nature (God) in its infinite wisdom seems to find same-sex mating perfectly normal. Sorry Art. I guess your "quick look" was a bit too quick.
But what I really want to know is where Art, with all his collective wisdom on marriage and families he's so willing to pass on, gets off saying that gays want all the advantages of marriage "without the responsibilities??"
Doesn't Art realize that there are millions of gay couples out there meeting the "responsibilities" of raising children WITHOUT the gratuities legal marriage grants to heterosexual couples? Many of these couples have been together for 10, 20, 30, 50 years. Surely they've managed the "responsibility" thingie fairly well, wouldn't you say? And does Art seriously believe that if gays were allowed to marry the human race would disappear?? Nature (God) proves once again that Art ain't got it right.
I'm beginning to think that the only thing unnatural around here is good ol' Art's way of thinking.
