August 1st, 2003
Burningbird has a great post discussing the Bush’s latest homophobic behaviour, the “Wag the Dog” like timing of it all (steering us away from asking the president hard questions back into the quagmire of permacontroversy), and ties it to the ongoing cultural attack on feminism.
In the same post she also looks at how (and why) the Catholic church is shifting the debate.
The Vatican has also called against gay marriages in this country, issuing a 12-page document on the issue. According to the Kansas City Star’s report on the document: Gay adoptions “mean doing violence to these children.”
Considering the Catholic Church’s recent problems with child molestation, one pauses when one reads a document saying that that gay adoptions are doing violence to children.
Finally a friend asked me to pass along the Millions for Marriage petition, I’m not sure I believe in online petitions or a state regulated notion of marriage, but there you go.
July 2nd, 2003
Electrolite has “a prediction that applies just as well to most of our culture-wide permacontroversies”:
It’s going to get ugly. And then it’s going to get boring.
(I think that “permacontroversies” also counts as the
COTW of the week)
April 24th, 2003
Robin’s recent response to the Senator Santorum of Pennsylvania “mouthing off about homosexuality” and his earlier response to the Supreme court ruling on Texas’s anti-sodomy laws are very interesting. One of the few things I’ve read recently that really rearranged my thoughts on an issue, the sort of thing that when you reach the end of the piece it seems obvious, but it sure didn’t before you started reading.
What did Santorum say, essentially? That people, given the right to marry whatever sex they like, will then want the right to marry whatever number they like, with whatever rules they like–to arrange their own families the way they want to. That the people will want that freedom to shape their own lives.
He’s right. That’s exactly what we’re going to want.
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