"Gay" State Backlash
Now: the fallout. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (in Massachusetts we name everything just slightly off of national trends: Supreme Judicial Court, Department of Environmental Protection, Executive Office of Transportation and Construction instead of Department of Transportation) handed pundits around the country a bonus check with their 4-3 ruling on gay marriage. All kinds of spokespersons from organizations with the word "Family" in the title are frothing at the mouth to talk about how this ruling will ruin families. After seeing many families ruined by alcohol and drug abuse, I don't think a gay married couple next door is the ruination of civilization, but hey! Media bobbleheads are also talking about how the ruling grants the Republicans a solid campaign issue for 2004. Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney (a Mormon, and we already know about their shaky history), and George W. Bush (who was once apparently on the path of family destruction) are both against gay marriage.
Verbal Jazz would like to point out a few fun filled facts with regard to gay marriage:
1. Men and women can still marry each other. And divorce. This decision does not rescind any rights.
2. No men have yet asked me to marry them. I doubt this will happen since I am already married. And to a woman.
3. Marriage is all about equal protection, such as the right to hospital visits. Would you deny loved ones visiting privileges? Just asking.
4. Isn't it nice that people who love each other can express that?
5. No one is forcing churches to host gay weddings.
Tomorrow Verbal Jazz promises to introduce the Verbal Jazz Institute for the American Family (VJIAF).
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Now: the fallout. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (in Massachusetts we name everything just slightly off of national trends: Supreme Judicial Court, Department of Environmental Protection, Executive Office of Transportation and Construction instead of Department of Transportation) handed pundits around the country a bonus check with their 4-3 ruling on gay marriage. All kinds of spokespersons from organizations with the word "Family" in the title are frothing at the mouth to talk about how this ruling will ruin families. After seeing many families ruined by alcohol and drug abuse, I don't think a gay married couple next door is the ruination of civilization, but hey! Media bobbleheads are also talking about how the ruling grants the Republicans a solid campaign issue for 2004. Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney (a Mormon, and we already know about their shaky history), and George W. Bush (who was once apparently on the path of family destruction) are both against gay marriage.
Verbal Jazz would like to point out a few fun filled facts with regard to gay marriage:
1. Men and women can still marry each other. And divorce. This decision does not rescind any rights.
2. No men have yet asked me to marry them. I doubt this will happen since I am already married. And to a woman.
3. Marriage is all about equal protection, such as the right to hospital visits. Would you deny loved ones visiting privileges? Just asking.
4. Isn't it nice that people who love each other can express that?
5. No one is forcing churches to host gay weddings.
Tomorrow Verbal Jazz promises to introduce the Verbal Jazz Institute for the American Family (VJIAF).
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