Monday, May 17, 2004
Gays Wed, Sky Doesn't Fall
Gays have been getting married all morning across the Commonwealth, and as of yet the sky has not fallen. 201k's own marriage has not been diminished -- although Mr. 201k was required to put the dishes in the dishwasher this morning -- and the earth has not cracked open to swallow us whole.
Actually, it's your basic Monday: most people went to work, and a lot of gay adults who were living together anyway got married. Mrs. 201k stayed home from work, had coffee and cleaned up a bit from yesterday's 4th birthday party for 201k jr.
It drizzled a bit early on, but the sun is out now and it's becoming a lovely spring New England Day.
The papers, as usual, were full of dire fears of a "gay marriage backlash", but 201k has not, as of yet, seen one story recounting any actual backlash--just lots of stories predicting one. It's starting to feel like a self-fulfilling prophesy--or at least some totalitarian's hope for one. Maybe the anti-gay people bemoaning in yesterday's Times the lack of enthusiasm in their rank and file for opposing gay marriage think they can stir a backlash up if they keep predicting one.
It may work; a Globe story today quoted a closeted gay man who claimed to fear the coming backlash -- so they've succeeded in convincing at least one gay person. Maybe he's a log-cabin Republican.
Our Utah Republican governor, having first failed to convince the Commonwealth's Attorney General to stop the marriages using a 91-year-old anti-miscegenation law, then failed to convince the U.S. Supreme Court that the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court shouldn't be allowed to interpret the Massachusetts Constitution, then failed to convince anyone -- other than the anti-gay extremists who've come here from other states (like the governor himself) to try to change our Constitution -- that the executive branch is above the law, has mostly confined himself to muttering that "the people haven't been given a chance to vote" on the issue.
After we do, presumably, we'll all vote on whether the slaves should be free, women should vote, and Catholics can marry Protestants. Mob rule is so much more fun when you're governor of someone else's state. If it weren't for that damned Constitution and those meddling Justices...
The most interesting thing we read this morning is the long list of people getting married who have connections to some of the most powerful people in the Commonwealth. Former Republican Chiefs of Staff, cousins, brothers and sisters of State Reps and Senators, uncles and aunts of big-shot corporate leaders.
Who knew so many people were related to gays? Does Pat Robertson know about this?
Oh well, too bad. Soon the sky will fall, and all those brothers, sisters, cousins, aunts and uncles will have to give up their marriages.
Yup, any minute now.
Sure is a nice day out.
Actually, it's your basic Monday: most people went to work, and a lot of gay adults who were living together anyway got married. Mrs. 201k stayed home from work, had coffee and cleaned up a bit from yesterday's 4th birthday party for 201k jr.
It drizzled a bit early on, but the sun is out now and it's becoming a lovely spring New England Day.
The papers, as usual, were full of dire fears of a "gay marriage backlash", but 201k has not, as of yet, seen one story recounting any actual backlash--just lots of stories predicting one. It's starting to feel like a self-fulfilling prophesy--or at least some totalitarian's hope for one. Maybe the anti-gay people bemoaning in yesterday's Times the lack of enthusiasm in their rank and file for opposing gay marriage think they can stir a backlash up if they keep predicting one.
It may work; a Globe story today quoted a closeted gay man who claimed to fear the coming backlash -- so they've succeeded in convincing at least one gay person. Maybe he's a log-cabin Republican.
Our Utah Republican governor, having first failed to convince the Commonwealth's Attorney General to stop the marriages using a 91-year-old anti-miscegenation law, then failed to convince the U.S. Supreme Court that the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court shouldn't be allowed to interpret the Massachusetts Constitution, then failed to convince anyone -- other than the anti-gay extremists who've come here from other states (like the governor himself) to try to change our Constitution -- that the executive branch is above the law, has mostly confined himself to muttering that "the people haven't been given a chance to vote" on the issue.
After we do, presumably, we'll all vote on whether the slaves should be free, women should vote, and Catholics can marry Protestants. Mob rule is so much more fun when you're governor of someone else's state. If it weren't for that damned Constitution and those meddling Justices...
The most interesting thing we read this morning is the long list of people getting married who have connections to some of the most powerful people in the Commonwealth. Former Republican Chiefs of Staff, cousins, brothers and sisters of State Reps and Senators, uncles and aunts of big-shot corporate leaders.
Who knew so many people were related to gays? Does Pat Robertson know about this?
Oh well, too bad. Soon the sky will fall, and all those brothers, sisters, cousins, aunts and uncles will have to give up their marriages.
Yup, any minute now.
Sure is a nice day out.
