Serrated Prose

Thank goodness the majority of Americans are happy that DOMA was  defeated  by the Supreme Court (now called SCOTUS by the too-cool-for-school crowd), but here I'd like to address the detractors and their arguments against allowing homosexuals to marry. I'll cover the most common ones I've heard, the first is drawn from a woman I just heard call into a talk radio station: "What is marriage, now? This will open the door to all kinds of unions. Can you marry a child, now? Can you marry a sister? Can you marry a dog? Can you marry many wives or husbands? Where does it end?" This argument boils down to "I'm so confused! The world doesn't make sense anymore!" I'm sure this was the general sentiment among conservatives when the Supreme Court allowed interracial marriage in 1967 -- but for the sake of clarity, let me break it down for those who make this argument: Marriage is still monogamy between humans who are no closer in relation than first...

Children are a marvelous thing to behold. Not only because of the obvious willingness to believe anything and thoughtlessly depend on adults for just about everything -- but because we were all like that at one time. A time so long ago, for some, that the memories seem like a fairy tale told to us about some stranger in an imaginary land. We believed everything we were told. We could believe in dragons, ghosts, superheroes, and even altruism. But then we get older and reality is the mother of all wet blankets. People really aren't so nice and strangers are rarely looking out for anyone but themselves and are, at worst, nefarious people who want to somehow take advantage of us. The world really isn't a magical place; there are no dragons or superheroes and altruism always seems to have an ulterior motive. I didn't forget about ghosts. Some people jealously cling to the belief that spirits linger and watch us -- mostly because, by nature, ghosts are invisible, unlike dragon...