You might enjoy these (http://melted-snowball.livejournal.com/145392.html) two (http://melted-snowball.livejournal.com/145427.html) posts (particularly the second one), which was probably the last time I got really pissed off about that.
Oh, and of course, one might note that the Declaration of Independence is full of stirring rhetoric about a lot of things, but that the Constitution, which matters legally talks about securing the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our posterity. If we really want to claim that the point is to protect the children, this feels to me like it wants to protect them all.
[And, finally, we haven't had a great societal collapse here yet, four years into this same-sex marriage experiment. In fact, it seems to have become banal. Which is, to be frank, really great.]
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Date: 2006-07-19 11:50 am (UTC)Oh, and of course, one might note that the Declaration of Independence is full of stirring rhetoric about a lot of things, but that the Constitution, which matters legally talks about securing the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our posterity. If we really want to claim that the point is to protect the children, this feels to me like it wants to protect them all.
[And, finally, we haven't had a great societal collapse here yet, four years into this same-sex marriage experiment. In fact, it seems to have become banal. Which is, to be frank, really great.]