UPON DEEP CONSIDERATION, I MAY BE CHANGING MY MIND
The issue is gay marriage. I’ve opposed it because it seems the word “marriage” as a label for a relationship should be for potential breeders, not just people who want companionship and a relationship with one person.
Having said that, I’ve also thought that maybe government ought to be in the civil unions business and not the marriage business. Government should only do civil unions. If you want to be joined legally, you can get “joined” by a skydiving Elvis preacher acting under the authority of the state. But if you want to get married you’d have to get some religious organization to sanction your marriage.
However, I am now thinking the issue anew. Why? Former Vice President Dick Cheney. He and his wife Lynne have a gay daughter and the former Vice President was asked about gay marriage the other day. He said, or growled, “I think freedom means freedom,” and he went on to say he didn’t see why gays couldn’t marry.
So, taking his lead, I am rethinking my position. Why should I think a “marriage” performed by a skydiving Elvis holds some special “sanctified” status just because it’s a goofy man and a goofy woman…while a “marriage” between Bruce and Steve, or Stella and Joan is not ok?
Frankly, I think this whole controversy is nothing more than the country getting rolled by the lawyers from GLADD and the Human Rights Campaign who huddle up each year and come up with the gay agenda.
But Cheney has got me to set that aside.
From now on this is my position: On the issue of gay marriage, I’m with Dick.
I’m thinking of having buttons and coffee mugs made:
Gay Marriage: I’m with Dick.
Words to live by.
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