I care less about the loss of Maine, or the forces of doom’s designs on NewHampshire, than i do, for example, on the optimism and assertive hope that, say, Massachusetts exemplifies. Embolden the example and it’ll trample over the fear.

It’s examples such as that State’s that will ultimately prevail — not some mechanistic gloomy nay-saying response that we see above.

Gaydom needs to learn about hard work and sacrifice, and less about quick-n-easy, over-night results. We need to grow up.

The future is very bright, but not easy.

Each of us has seen so much in our life. We have found new galaxies due to Hubble, witnessed the end of the Cold War, the use of stem-cells to prevent diseases is around the corner, even anti-matter is no longer a dream.

So in that context gay marriage is not hard to believe is coming.

Because it is.

Recall that folks like Rosa Parks lived to see so much of what she never had at one point in her life become the law of the land, due to fighting and demanding.

So shall we.

Never lose faith.

I haven’t.

Your indictment of gay society certainly has a lot of truth behind it, but it is really no different from the general social mindset that late-stage capitalism has by necessity bred into the population at large. Profits can only be realized by consumption, thererfore partying and fun-fun-more-fun-dammit is essential to the bottom line of the ruling class.

This system cannot endure forever and it will eventually collapse. The present economic difficulties are harsh, but they are not yet as bad as things could be and as bad as they inevitably will be.

Maybe we won’t have a civil war; as I said, right now all the guns are on the other side. What is clear, though, is that if present trends continue the Republic will not survive. Almost all the possibilities of what will replace it are terrifying.

Sarah Palin, Glen Beck, the Tea Baggers — these are the shape of things to come.

And CivilWar? Hardly at all.
When our gay-society cares less about consumerism, partying, and abandons the fun-fun-more-fun-dammit! mentality then we’ll see true civil progress of our rights.

Maturity matters.

rob@egoz.org

What disturbs me, though, is that right now all the guns are on the other side, the enemies of the Republic and of human rights and freedom. As much as it appalled me, the Tea Baggers who brought guns to protest Obama had a point. Political power does not grow out of a protest sign.

What do you do? I laugh at the “rallies” being organized for tonight for Maine’s vote as worthless…great, the gays are mad again…oh well, just like Lisa Simpson mentioned once at Springfield’s Pride Parade: “You do this every year, We are used to it!! We have to do something different…I don’t know what that is. Until religion is out of the marriage business it’s going to be an uphill battle. Until then, I live with my partner, out in the community, living like a married couple. We both wear typical simple gold wedding bands as a silent sign of protest (?). Sure, we can’t have the legal aspect of marriage, but until then, we plan to act like it.

Good blog–but when do you sleep?!?

Referenda like this take advantage of the fact that the majority of Americans are ignorant, bigoted sheep who follow the dictates of the superstitious religion as interpreted by self-serving demagogues instead of reason, common sense, and enlightened self-interest. The masses have not yet been liberated from the mental slavery they have been bred into, and so cannot be relied upon to vote in favor of the further emancipation of humanity.

I suppose it is small consolation that the we have made enough progress that the worst we have to be disappointed about is the denial of an elective legal benefit. Sodomy laws are gone, non-discrimination laws are commonplace, AIDS research, prevention, and treatment are well-funded; a handful of states either have marriage or something similar. Compare that to 20 years ago.