Monday, June 05, 2006

there is something very ironic in
the fact that the bigots in d.c. are
trying to pass an amendment to prevent
loving couples from marrying and the fact that
today is my parent's 58th wedding anniversary.

oh my yes, indeedy! s

6 comments:

QUASAR9 said...

My parents are celebrating their 50th this year. Though sometimes (quite oft) it seemed they were going in separate directions.

From my last visit, on Mother's Day, I deduced it was more than Catholic dogma held the glue. Despite living 'almost' like what could only be described by some as cat & dog, they were actually co-dependant on each other for support in their old age, and tender moments were still evident. Age had/has mellowed or made irrelevant a lot of their differences.

Sherry Pasquarello said...

hi, yes, age does that. too bad some must wait til the end to get along. getting along is not what i would think a great statement after a lifetime tho.

i think that everyone should have the right to enter into a marriage.
who knows which couples will endure? who knows which will thrive?

QUASAR9 said...

I didn't mean they just get along.I meant when younger they were more fiery (aren't we all) and separation often seemed inminent at the drop of a hat or a wrong word. Now they just don't have the inclination. That's all.

On the other issue, they already have 'civil partnerships' here, to secure whatever insurance, pension and inheritance rights.

I don't get hot under the collar over a word - tomato, tomatoe - and all that. For some people it is just a 'poke in the eye' to others 'sensibilities'. But what if the others who do not agree were to decide to poke back? that would be called discrimination, no?

And why not multiple spouses like Mormons or Muslims. ad infinitum

I suppose some would also like to 'marry' their dog, or cat, or other favourite pet too. May seem bizarre to most, but there it is.

Sherry Pasquarello said...

i have to laugh at that one. : )


i do think gay people should be able to get married, have the same rights as everyone else. throw big expensive wedding and plan big expensive honeymoons and have all the baggage that comes with a marriage. why not?

my being straight is in no way threatened by someone being gay.
i would not be upset in the least if a family that happened to be gay bought a home next to me. i'd be upset if they were bad neighbors, but not because they were a gay married couple. i had no difficulty explaining homosexuality to my daughter when she was young. i doubt that she and my son-in-law will have any problems explaining it to their daughter. it is a part of life. parents have to explain a lot of things, this is just one of many.
it shouldn't be a big deal.

QUASAR9 said...

The only problem with looking for political votes or trying to make political capital, from a sector of society, whether blacks, latinos or alternative lifestyles, is that once you get over 'the single issue' - you find that those in better paid jobs by enlarge believe in lower taxes, regardless of what group they came from.

And those who believed in all the other social issues: fair pay, decent housing, equal opportunity, and universal health care - get shafted. Else how do Republicans get in, when behind all the moral nonsense, the real issue is less taxation for those who have more.

The Conservative Party tries the same smoke and mirrors in the uk, their core vote is the better off wanting less taxes + sod the rest.
And more gays & muslims still vote Conservative (or libdem) before working class or Labour, and real equality. But I rant too much.

Sherry Pasquarello said...

it seems that there are people that cling to the fantasy that "someday" they will be among the rich, wether by some lottery win or some other stoke of fortune, they feel that when they do enter into those rae ranks, that they don't want one penny extra taken from them! i hear it all the time.
that and the ever present appeal of "well, i may be a (fill in the blank, italian, black...) but at LEAST i'm not(fill in the blank...!)

that tendency toward divisions, labeling, caste mindset, has been used quite well by the haves to keep the have nots at each other's throats for centuries now. they realize that in reality there are far more have nots than haves and if they were ever to bond, well...

franky i feel that if most of the have nots are that shallow and bigoted and stupid to be manipulated over the years by that same old/lame old meanspirited baloney, then perhaps the haves (and i am not one) are a bit right in their assesment of us.

their smoke and mirrors still work it seems to me!