Supreme Beings of Shrugging

Today the U.S. Supreme Court deigned to hear arguments from both sides of the California Proposition 8 Gay Marriage Ban regarding whether or not Prop 8 is or is not constitutional. I listened to CSPAN's coverage (no cameras were in court) and heard the most boring, anti-climactic, wishy-washy mumblings from almost all concerned. Perhaps I'm being too harsh on those who took the time to attend and to stand up for Marriage Equality. They are doing their best, I'm sure.

Nevertheless, listening to our Supreme Beings Of Justice dither around the issue tells me it will take more time before the USA grows-up and allows Everyone in every state of the union to marry. Period. It is coming, but not right now. Chances are the Court will toss Prop 8's fate back to California where a lower court recently determined that Prop 8 was, indeed, unconstitutional, while The State's Supreme Court retains the ban.

While the Supremes prepare to hear arguments tomorrow for overturning DOMA (Defense of Marriage Act), I guarantee we'll hear another drum-beat of "What about the children?" as we heard today. Will two same-sex partners be good parents? Will the kids be harmed? How can we protect what is best for The Children?

It's always about The Little Ones, isn't it? Not really about what happens when people grow out of being Little and become Big Grown-Ups to supposedly live their lives in a happy wonderland of Love & Bliss with their partner of choice in a legal manner.

I love kids. I enjoy them. But when The Chillen's are used over and over again as the shield for bigotry, intolerance, fear of the unknown, I roll my eyes and shout, "But What About The Adults?" You know, people who "should" be able to make their own decisions and live with and procreate with and/or adopt with the person of their choice – gay or straight.

And the tired old argument that allowing gays to marry would destroy "the institution of marriage" has to be one of the biggest jokes and lies on the planet. Look at the heterosexual divorce rate. Look at all the heterosexual single parents. Don't tell me or others that marriage is to "procreate" legally when a high percentage of the population of married straights don't bear children of their own – or adopt – at all?

Marriage, as anyone who has even checked once, was never, ever set up for romance. Breeding and territorial concerns were the glue sticks. So, whenever I hear the sanctimonious grousing's of how allowing non-straights to marry would "harm" marriage is beyond my comprehension. I think marriage all by its own "hand" has "ruined it" when we see people marry 8 times. Or even more than once. When marriages produce children and then one of the parents leaves and never returns – for one reason or another. You've heard this argument many times, I'm sure.

Don't insult our intelligence with these lame examples. If our society was THAT concerned about The Kids and what they could be subjected to, then first off, one would need to cloister their child from all things and people of Modern Thinking. No TV, no movies, no violent videogames. No school with other kids where one learns what the word "fuck" means and how babies really are made. C'mon, people! Heterosexuals, for the most part, have Gay Babies! Period. It's part of nature. There are at least 450 – 1,500 animal species with homosexual "relationships" and/or "tendencies."

It's a balancing process of nature. Think about it.

You don't believe me? You disagree? Those hundreds-thousands of "gay" animals must be an anomaly? But, how could that be, I ask? I mean, don't uber religious people believe that God makes No Mistakes?

Think about it again and again if you're having a difficult time coming to terms with the fact that Homosexuality is NORMAL…if we can ever honestly determine what "Normal" really is. What is NOT "Normal" is repressing basic love and becoming full of self-hatred for Being Who You Are.

In reviewing your beliefs against homosexuality and gay marriage, for example, weigh your own hypocrisy if you can't accept that Love Is Love, as your religion supposedly taught you.

And finally, once more, please tell me (or anyone with my view) how a straight person would be HARMED with Marriage Equality? The only thing I can see that would be harmful is the hateful entitled pomposity of believing that what you have as a "right" cannot be shared with those of pure heart when, in the end, it's simply a document to be signed allowing people to have the same legal opportunities as anyone else. That's really it, in a legal sense. And right now with Prop 8, that's what it's about. Not religious doctrine. Just Legalese.

Remember, what goes on in the bedrooms of many a heterosexual couple is often a mirror to what gay couples do. But, of course, no one discusses this in open court or in "polite company" although sex toys abound in the nightstand drawers of many a straight couple – just like with some gay couples. And, by the way, not all gay men or women use toys. Sometimes they are just as boring in bed as their straight counterparts.

So, to be blunt, the hell with this nonsense about the kids. They do alright as we have seen in many testimonials over the past year. And to hell with the excuse that Marriage is a "scared institution". Hah! It is perhaps one of the most mis-used, corrupted, and laughable laws of the land.

On that churlish note, I bid you a temporary farewell for the day in writing.

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