The First Wave of Horror

Johno Johno

Ladies, gentlemen, and transgendered individuals (pre-op and post-op), I give to you the downfall of Western Civilization, the American family, and life as we know it in these United States.

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That's Phyllis Lyon, 79, and Del Martin, 83, a lesbian couple who have been together more than fifty years. Today, they were married in a civil ceremony in San Francisco. The fiends!

Buckethead's worry that gay-marriage advocates may be rushing the issue being well taken, you nevertheless have to say "awwwwww."

[wik] NDR has more on gay wedding in San Francisco, and his analysis is particularly insightful. The nut of the matter:

Cities have few competencies that are completely their own--even utilities tend to be either semi-private or intergovernmental corporations. Even as the US Constitution grants broad and vague powers to the states (all those not reserved for the federal government), it never mentions urban corporations and constitutions or the rights granted to sub-state territorial actors. American federalism is a limited concept that has little application beyond the relationship between the federal government and the states. Furthermore, American political culture is wary of granting autonomy to communal corporations like cities.

The actions of the San Francisco municipal government are admirable. However, their actions will be too easily appealed without referencing the problem of unequal rights. The hotel de ville or the Rathaus, both institutions which have stood as alternative sources of values and authority in Europe, might have the legitimacy to take on the problem of equal rights on their own. But the problem will not be solved by the American city hall.

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1

My great aunt, Dorothy, and her SO, Margaret, have been together at least that long.

GuitarPicker GuitarPicker

2

DAMN.Fifty plus years. Good for your great aunt! I aspire to such heights. Not to get sappy, but sometimes I get sad because every day I spend with my wife is one less day I have to spend with her.

Johno Johno

3

This is the two headed face of evil in the modern age. The edge of the knife that will cut the rope that is keeping us from a plummet into the depths of hell.

Actually, I'm happy for them. Staying together that long is no easy task. But, it's not marriage - or shouldn't be. Civil Union, fine. Aw, fuck it. It doesn't matter anymore. Let's marry everybody. Two, three, four, men, women, pets, dolphins, aliens. I don't care.

Buckethead Buckethead

4

That's the spirit! Me, I'm entering a plural marriage with a six pack of Sam Adams Boston Lager in a few hours!

Johno Johno

5

Buckethead, I'm sorry. That was mean. Look, I agree with you that it's possible for gay-rights activists to push the issue too quickly and incite a severe backlash. I hope to God that doesn't happen.

For me, it's more important that society learn to accept it eventually than it is to happen quickly.

Johno Johno

7

I wasn't exactly joking. Not exactly. I am happy for them.

Before I was married, my friends accused me of being a serial monogamist. Marriage to a six pack of beer, now that I can get behind. A loving, fulfilling relationship that lasts just as long as it needs to. Sam Adams isn't really my type, though. I prefer a sultry, voluptuous Negro Modelo, or a thin blond Pilsner Urquell.

Buckethead Buckethead

8

Cue TV show theme ...

Love, Love, Love

Love, American Style,
Truer than the Red, White and Blue.
Love, American Style,
That's me and you.

And on a star spangled night my love, (My love come to me).
You can rest you head on my shoulder.
Out by the dawn's early light, my love
I will defend your right to try.

Love, American Style,
That's me and you.

GuitarPicker GuitarPicker

9

Buckethead, so you only date [em]foreign[/em] beers? Do you have some notion that foreign=exotic, no matter how insipid the brew really is?

See, I like a beer that's got some HIPS on it... er.. I mean HOPS... sure I do.... heh...

Johno Johno

11

NDR, you should know that I'm already married... and in fact so are you!

I'm not a polygamist, except when it comes to marriages of convenience; e.g. when it's convenient for my ass to marry that couch for six hours or so.

Johno Johno

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