When I began this blog in 2001, I was appalled by President Bush's headlong rush to an illegal war (we were not in fact under attack). As time wore on and Bush began his assault on the Constitution and any people bold enough to criticize, I believed that "the republic is endangered more by actions of our own government than by those of any terrorist." With the election of a high-minded, compassionate, intelligent man like Barack Obama, my fears have ceased.
"Honor them with peace, not war"
United for Peace
Thursday, February 12, 2004
All the reasons I've see to oppose gay marriage have nothing to do with marriage. They have only to do with setting apart a portion of the population.
Letters to the editor in local newspapers assert, for example, that the divorce rate is too high and we must defend marriage. I'd guess a high divorce rate has to do with other changes in society so that marriage does not anwer the needs of many people as it once did. Logically, more people getting married does nothing to undermine the institution; if anything, it bolsters it.
I read a letter to the editor that asserted marriage must be between a man and a woman, because only they can produce and nurture a child. Yet there are two obvious problems with this: 1) childless heterosexual couples are not barred from marriage; and 2) gay couples may and do adopt and nurture children.
Copyright © 2001-03 Pam Shorey
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'Defense' of marriage
The arts of power and its minions are the same in all countries and in all ages. It marks its victim; denounces it; and excites the public odium and the public hatred, to conceal its own abuses and encroachments.
[---Henry Clay, 1834]
All the reasons I've see to oppose gay marriage have nothing to do with marriage. They have only to do with setting apart a portion of the population.
Letters to the editor in local newspapers assert, for example, that the divorce rate is too high and we must defend marriage. I'd guess a high divorce rate has to do with other changes in society so that marriage does not anwer the needs of many people as it once did. Logically, more people getting married does nothing to undermine the institution; if anything, it bolsters it.
I read a letter to the editor that asserted marriage must be between a man and a woman, because only they can produce and nurture a child. Yet there are two obvious problems with this: 1) childless heterosexual couples are not barred from marriage; and 2) gay couples may and do adopt and nurture children.
Palema
6:38 AM
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