your gay marriage.

I am in a 10-year old relationship. As far as the whole gay marriage thing goes, I have no problem whatsoever of a heterosexual marriage representing a certain cultural standard or ideal, if you will, of a society. It makes perfectly good sense to me. If that means I lose out on some benefits, well, that's the price you pay for being different, just like being an artist, which to my mind, has even LESS cachet in this society than being gay these days. I would sooner see more accommodation for the arts and artists, frankly.
As long as I'm left alone to live my life and am not branded or thrown into a concentration camp, I couldn't care less about the marriage laws.

I say NO ONE gets married...gay or straight...let there be civil unions for everyone and let the churches define marriage as they will.

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Iflit, that's what that genius writer Richard Goldstein said in The Advocate, that gay marriage will not undermine the institution of marriage in the least, but civil unions will. What will happen is that a large percentage of heterosexual couples will enter into civil unions rather than going through the whole marriage rigmarole. We shall see if Richard Goldstein is right, but he probably will be since you know how those heteros catch on to what the gays are doing and start doing it a few years later.

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Well, Namo, Mr. Goldstein is a pretty smart man. I enjoy reading his articles whenever possible. You know who else I enjoy? Frank Rich. He's a smart man, too. And no list of enjoyable journalists would be complete without mentioning Mr. Musto. To reiterate:

RICHARD GOLDSTEIN
FRANK RICH
MICHAEL MUSTO

(Kinda makes you wax nostalgic, doesn't it?)

Sorry, Sherman....didn't mean to go so off off-topic in your happy anniversary thread....

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