Miscellaneous News

This article, about the widespread national protests against Proposition 8, claims these could start a movement as important as the Stonewall riots of 1969.

Try setting back gay rights clear back to Stonehenge, which these wrongheaded protests are bound to do.

Pissing off the vast majority of Americans who do NOT agree with SSM and believe, as history, the dictionary, and common sense based on biological realities show, marriage is heterosexual by definition because heterosexual relations by definition produce children while gay relations do not. Marriage is really about society's need to perpetuate itself and keep some of sort of structure for children to be raised. We all know not all marriages are successful and not all produce children. Not all children are born in wedlock, although many if not most of them encounter more hardships, especially economic, than those born in wedlock, but regardless of the exceptions, marriage exists for the production and raising of the next generation and to make parents take some responsibility for the offspring they produce. What many gay activists want to do is redefine marriage into an oxymoron. The reasons they are pushing this loser issue are two-fold: one, they want the benefits marriage provides without having to go the piecemeal route of civil unions, and two, they think their relationships should be have equal status and APPROVAL of society, not just "tolerance." The way to get approval is to have exactly the same public recognition of their relationships as heterosexuals, i.e., marriage. It is virtually impossible for them to get approval for something many people find disgusting and goes against all of their beliefs.

It was a long struggle to get civil unions, which have widespread support even among conservatives, but the gay activists weren't happy with that. They had to push the envelope, and now they bellyache when the vast majority of people object to their radical concept of marriage. They are REALLY mad because California, of all places, told them and especially Gavin Newsom where to stick it. If California voters don't like SSM, what chance do gay activists have to EVER to get it in other states outside of a couple of state courts which should have known better? Forget the federal government, despite more Democrats being elected. A lot of them, including president-elect Obama, are opposed to SSM as well.

All the SSM supporters are doing is inviting a giant backlash on something that is unwinnable. I personally sympathize with the issue, but I know as well as anybody this concept will NEVER fly in this country. And let's face it, with the economy in the sewer, there are far more important issues to tackle than whether one approves of what gays do in the sack.