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“Rep. Marilyn Musgrave, R-Colo., wants the Constitution amended to read: “Marriage in the United States shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman.” Her proposal was referred on June 25 to the House Judiciary subcommittee on the Constitution.”
[ABCNews.com]
Um, what are people afraid of? How many marriages end in divorce because one spouse figures out they’re gay? Someone needs to explain this to me, and so far the only explanations I’ve heard are based on the Bible. Personally, I’m against the whole idea of marriage, especially if it is so narrowly defined.

“‘People should be free to enter into any kind of relationship they want to enter into,’ said Cheney [in 2000]. ‘It’s really no one else’s business, in terms of trying to regulate or prohibit behavior in that regard.’

Cheney’s daughter Mary is a lesbian.”
[Ibid.]

We don’t end articles about the NAACP with ‘Tom’s friend Susan is black’, nor do we end articles about Alcoholics Anonymous with ‘Mary knows a depressed alcoholic’… What is this obsession society has with sexual orientation? It’s nothing different than any other aspect of a person, and we need to stop focusing on it so much.

Someone also needs to explain to me why Israel is such a bunch of jerks. My support for them as a nation slips daily. I can absolutely understand the ire of the arab nations, in the light of such brazen violations such as the aforelinked article. Are 22 houses worth peace in the region? Who gave Israel this divine right to the land? Oops, bad choice of words… And why do people have to live in a certain place to worship their deity? Fundamental flaw of monotheistic religions, number 1. Following close behind is number 2, the idea of killing people in the name of a fictional entity. (Before you start hating, realize that my argument flows as follows: There may or may not be a higher power. No one knows this for sure, and to the best of our knowledge, we can never know for sure. This power/force/deity/dude/chick is definately not named ‘God’, ‘Allah’, or any such Earth-language name. We can determine this because if this power created the earth, it must have existed before the earth, and the earth existed before human languages. My bet is on this power having no name of its own. It doesn’t wear a turban, it doesn’t have a beard, and it’s probably not fat. Back to the name thing. If a person ‘died in the name of Allah’ or ‘killed in the name of God’, it’s a scam, pure and simple. Doing such things in the name of a higher power creates an idol, something sacriligious in the monotheistic religions. A thing done in the fictional name of a higher power cannot, by definition, be according to the will of that power.)

The girl at starbucks (whom I have reason to believe is a lesbian… like it matters…) got my name wrong after I’ve been going there for weeks. Evidently my name is Sal. Might keep the name… Sal Simon sounds like a kind of fun alias. But she got my drink right, so all is good in coffeeland.

Scott is caucasian, and of average height.

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