Let's be honest. The recent Senatorial debate over the proposed "marriage" amendment has almost nothing to do with "protecting the social institution of marriage, which has traditionally included one man and one woman". The debate is about an anti-gay amendment. It's about a pro-evangelical religious amendment. Its supporters are some of the worst bigots this country has to offer. Most importantly, it heralds the dying gasps of a hatred culture that ignorantly believe their power and influence to be on the rise.
The amendment will not pass. Marriage will eventually discard the traditional and nugatory qualification of being between one man and one woman for a contemporary definition that emphasizes its justification on the merits of its social benefits and not purely its orthodoxality. I'm hopeful, at the same time, that this country will finally recognize that unemployed couples living in a 900 square foot trailer home and using fertility drugs to shat on this planet a litter of five future social nightmares are our true enemies. Wrapped in a flag of that oh so important and sanctified social institution known as "traditional" marriage, this rural freak show will undoubtedly make the news on numerous occasions as the son joins our prison community and the daughters contribute -- as pregnant teenagers -- to the circle of life.
