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Posted on 07/09/2003 2:13:25 AM PDT by kattracks
THIS MUST be news. It was in The New York Times, which publishes, among other things, “All the news that’s fit to print.” So the good, gray Times last week solemnly reported this “news” item: “Many Americans believe marriage is between a man and a woman.” Yes, we “many Americans” are an eccentric bunch and we believe a lot of strange, old-fashioned things.
It was ironic that a federal appeals court ordered the Ten Commandments removed from the Alabama Supreme Court in the same week that Newsweek was reporting — and perhaps celebrating — the U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down a Texas anti-sodomy law. The question on the magazine’s cover was, “Is Gay Marriage Next?” That question was superimposed over a picture of a “gay” or lesbian couple, depending on which version landed in your mailbox or on your newsstand. Either way, the cover featured the kind of “couple” Archie Bunker had in mind when he asked his wife, “A couple o’what, Edith?”
The Newsweek cover for the previous week showed a man and woman sitting up in bed, watching TV. The title over that picture was, “No Sex Please, We’re Married.” The subtitle asked if kids, stress and work are “taking the romance out” of marriage. Newsweek somehow thinks this is news. Perhaps the magazine has uncovered a conservative, even Puritan plot. If homosexuals are allowed to marry one another, it may spell the end of “gay” sex.
It brings to mind something an education critic wrote years ago, when sex education was still in the groundbreaking stages and was stirring up a lot of excited opposition from traditionalists, who worried that schools would be giving promiscuous sex the Playboy seal of approval. Don’t worry, the critic wrote. If the schools make sex as interesting for the kids as they have made other subjects, the human species will soon become extinct.
U. S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., has proposed a constitutional amendment defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman, notwithstanding any state’s statute or constitutional provision to the contrary. That may or may not be reassuring to Vermonters, who officially recognized a “civil union” for same-sex couples after the Vermont Supreme Court “discovered” that the state’s more than 200-year-old constitution requires it. (Those Yankees of yore would be quite amazed.)
But Vermont, as George Will has noted, seems more a commune than a state, and it would probably surprise no one if the progressive-minded people there succeeded in changing the state’s name to Aquarius.
The New Hampshire Supreme Court has made no such ruling on “gay unions,” perhaps because it hasn’t been asked. It seems a subject well suited to Chief Justice David Brock’s concept of “therapeutic justice.” And who would doubt the chief could find a requirement for state-sanctioned “gay unions” under Article 86, Part II of the New Hampshire Constitution?
Yessir/ma’am/whatever. By the time ol’ Crocodile Brock gets through analyzing the question, New Hampshire will not only have a “right” to “gay marriage” but a duty of the Legislature to pay for “gay” weddings.
And the lawmakers will have to adopt guidelines to ensure such funding will provide for “constitutionally adequate” weddings.
Surely, the case could be made that the New Hampshire citizens who ratified the state’s constitution in 1784 approved of gay weddings. They probably thought all weddings should be gay — that is, festive and merry. Perhaps we should go back to that old meaning of “gay.” Otherwise, we might have to rewrite the lyrics of “My Old Kentucky Home.” (“It’s summer, the loved ones are differently oriented.”) In its new meaning, as Archie Bunker might also have said, “gay” is just a four-letter word.
Manchester resident Jack Kenny is a freelance writer.
ROTFLMHO!!!
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It used to be "It's summer, the darkies are gay."
They've ALREADY done this with the West Side Story song: I Feel Pretty
"I feel pretty; oh so pretty, I feel pretty and witty and GAY.... " to rhyme with DAY
To a lame.....
"I feel pretty; oh so pretty, I feel pretty and witty and BRIGHT.... " to rhyme with NIGHT
In Deadlier than the Male, author Terry Manners describes in detail how Karla and her husband, the notorious Paul Bernardo, had killed three girls, starting with her own sister. It was Karla who had drugged young Tammy before Christmas in 1990 so Paul could rape her. Trying to please her man, she slipped an animal tranquilizer into Tammy's eggnog while they were all together in the basement of Tammy and Karla's parents' home, and when the girl passed out, they took turns having sex with her. They made a videotape of these activities so they could relive the pleasure. To their surprise, Tammy vomited and then suffocated and died. They redressed her and dragged her into the bedroom. However, there was no way to save her, so they claimed she'd had too much to drink. Karla took the lead in covering up the murder. The medical examiner failed to check very closely, and Karla and Paul kept their dark secret to themselves. However, Karla then dressed in her sister's clothes so that Paul could reenact the rape scene.
At no point did she protest and, caught on video, she seems to have thought the whole thing was quite funny.
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Extra-marital sexual relations are just as perverse as 'homosexuality' and once again are a chosen behavior.
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