Same-sex marriages. My two cents.

Personally, I think that fighting for same-sex marriages is a great goal. Especially since the entire gay rights movement have finally found an issue to focus on (can we remember the very vague goals established when people fought for federal punishments for hate crimes?).

One question: Doesn't that marginalize some gays even more? What about the people who don't want to be monogamous or in emotionally involving relationships at all? How would gender-queer people identify themselves in the eye of the law?

Conservatives should look at same-sex marriages as a chance to normalize this "sub culture." By allowing same-sex marriages (and subsequently allowing same-sex couples to start families), they would be promoting the equally conservative values of monogamy. People who still cling to the old subculture of clubbing, drug use, and promiscuity would be cast further into the fringes of society.

Learn a thing or two from the methods of the Catholic Church: assimilation ensures your perpetuating existence. You really think that Easter marked the exact date of the Resurrection? Try the old fertility festival for Ester of the Dawn. Sure, the pope probably had to pull his hair a couple of times before making a decision like that, but it reeled in a lot of the Celts and the Norns.

On a much lighter note, saw The Last Man on Earth on the Scifi Channel recently. One of the best quotes in the entire movie from a female FBI officer to a female scientist:

Officer: You mean you...?
Scientist: Yes.
Officer: Wow. A closet hetero.
Scientist: You don't think it's wrong?
Officer: In my line of work, I see all sorts of things.

Haha. Funny.

Also discovered the wonderful writings of James Morrow's Towing Jehovah and Only Begotten Daughter. It's like Good Omens all over again. Catholic satire at it's best.

Speaking of, the choir season is starting early this year. Time to break out those vocal chord exercises again.