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Morning Thoughts
Jul. 9th, 2006 08:19 amI know it's wrong, but I find few things as satisfying as my post-yoga cigarette.
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There's a whole lot of phrases that I'd like to see dropped from common usage. Here's my current top two:
Cut and Run: This term actually came into vogue during the Reagan administration, during the Lebanon involvement, when Reagan was trying to convince people that we had to stay there, until U.S. troops were eventually withdrawn. Really, the phrase ranks up there with "Declare victory and leave."
Defense of Marriage: Aside from my ethical and political stance in support of gay marriage, I dislike this phrase because it's basically incorrect. No one on the pro-gay marriage has expressed any sort of attack on the institution of marriage. If anything, it's the other way around: It affirms the value of marriage and the strength of the connection that comes from love. If anything, marriage as a concept is under assault from the right, who are wishing to dictate the terms of what constitutes other people's relationships. Now poor, dumb, confused America can almost be forgiven for not knowing what to make of gay marriage. They're wrong, but they can almost be forgiven, they've been handed so much shite over the years. But once that connection is made, that two people's relationship can be defined by outsiders, it's only a matter of time until that logic expands outward. My wife and I were not married in a church, nor do we want children. Because of this, the rhetoric the anti-gay marriage forces use puts my marriage as much in the line of fire as gay unions are. If not now, then later. This is how the erosion of civil rights works.
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There's a whole lot of phrases that I'd like to see dropped from common usage. Here's my current top two:
Cut and Run: This term actually came into vogue during the Reagan administration, during the Lebanon involvement, when Reagan was trying to convince people that we had to stay there, until U.S. troops were eventually withdrawn. Really, the phrase ranks up there with "Declare victory and leave."
Defense of Marriage: Aside from my ethical and political stance in support of gay marriage, I dislike this phrase because it's basically incorrect. No one on the pro-gay marriage has expressed any sort of attack on the institution of marriage. If anything, it's the other way around: It affirms the value of marriage and the strength of the connection that comes from love. If anything, marriage as a concept is under assault from the right, who are wishing to dictate the terms of what constitutes other people's relationships. Now poor, dumb, confused America can almost be forgiven for not knowing what to make of gay marriage. They're wrong, but they can almost be forgiven, they've been handed so much shite over the years. But once that connection is made, that two people's relationship can be defined by outsiders, it's only a matter of time until that logic expands outward. My wife and I were not married in a church, nor do we want children. Because of this, the rhetoric the anti-gay marriage forces use puts my marriage as much in the line of fire as gay unions are. If not now, then later. This is how the erosion of civil rights works.
