My comments: I'd bet most people have never looked at gay marriage as...a way to stir a sluggish economy..! But why not?! A wedding is certainly a better thing to spend money on than tanks and bombs!

Apparently W wants to spend $1.5 million to try to make sure poor herosexuals stay married—whether it's best for the women involved or not. But then conservatives will spend all kinds of time and money to prevent other people from getting married! These right-wingers who say they're about "families" are so full of shit! They're for keeping a narrow definition of family and for keeping many other people from solidifying their family relationships. That's not pro-family—it's narrow-minded and petty. All they're really for is patriarchy, it's just not terribly acceptable to say so outright these days, so they use euphemisms like "traditional family" and falsely claim to be championing "family values".

How about seeing the beauty in opening up a long-awaited possibility to tens of thousands of couples to celebrate and recognize their relationships and their families? And heck, how about generating business for airlines and hotels and caterers and tuxedo shops to serve all of these would-be brides and grooms? How about giving thousands of families the opportunity to laugh and cry and have "Kodak moments"? How about something positive and uplifiting, rather than trying to amend our Constitution in order to deny basic civil rights to a whole segment of the American population?! Sheesh!!

Fortunately a new generation of Americans is growing up with a strong "live and let live" mentality, and when today's young people become tomorrows middle-aged people, they simply are not going to go for the kind of intolerance the religious right is fighting so hard to keep alive.

Here's a very interesting site from a (somewhat at least) conservative who is strongly against a Constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages: Just Say No to the Federal Marriage Amendment.

And here's a great piece from the NY Times showcasing a couple and their desire to marry: Love and Marriage: A Proposal in New Jersey.

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[The Herald Sun]
Sunday bad for Sabbath
21 January 04

SUNDAY should be abandoned as the Sabbath because nobody wants to go to church at the weekend, a report by the Church of England said yesterday.

Most of the population would rather spend Sunday with their families or involved in sport, it said.

My comments: For more information on this report, see this article and this one.

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