Marriage Mishegas

...People are more favorable to gays...

...They announced that the issue of gay marriage was going to be a big problem for the Democratic Presidential candidates...

...Kate "Visit my 'Divorces R Us' kiosk in Provincetown...

...The problem with all the convoluted, trying to have it both ways, hairsplitting arguments against gay marriage is that it involves people...

...Want to see my prescription drug plan...

...In her morning note, she told me she had just gotten a call from Human Resources at the university where they both taught...

...How inconvenient...

...They were holding her partner's last paycheck and needed an affidavit from a RECOGNIZED (her caps) next of kin to release it...

...They all seemed to be doing variations on the talking points memo circulated by Wedgemaster Rove...

...Clinton is a humorist...

...Not to keep us tried and true...

...Hold that first thought...

...That meant, in this case, to her partner's mother, who had fought with my friend over care and do-not-resuscitate orders during her partner's year-long battle with a brain tumor...

...Don't ask, don't tell...

...I AM you...

...When Jerry "onemanonewoman.com" Falwell faced off against Barney Frank on CNN, he conceded, "I'm not in favor of putting people in jail for what they do in their bedrooms...

...He said that gays should not be denied this "opportunity," and that "we should insist on gay marriage...

...But to claim our due...

...There the unfortunate symptoms are frothing apocalypticism, fractured reasoning, knee jerking, and involuntary eye rolling...

...Thanks, but no thanks on the forced nuptialization...

...Holy co-dependent crisis, Brooksman...

...I was with him until he said that marriage at its best allows couples to say to each other: "Love you...

...Only the Red Sox "Curse of the Bambino" was not mentioned...

...Columnist David Brooks opined in his New York Times column that marriage makes "us better than we deserve to be...

...In the midst of all this marriage mishegas, one of my best friends was dealing with the sad-beyond-sad details of the death of her partner of twenty-seven years, a woman who thought marriage was an abomination and who often joked that "married" is "marred" with an I. The day my in-box overflowed with messages about the Massachusetts decision, I received two e-mails from my friend...

...Following their script, many Dems acted as if it were and did nothing to clear up the murk...

...That afternoon, she e-mailed me that New York State laws say that even if someone has filed a will, you have to send a letter requesting a waiver of contest of will to next of kin...

...Polls found that while people generally were more favorable toward gays, gay marriage gave them the heebie-jeebies...

...He had been just a few months ago, but Lawrence v. Texas must have converted him...

...Another heads up: Mad Vow Disease, once limited to wholesome, unimpeachable gay couples earnestly seeking to take on the rights and responsibilities of marriage, has jumped the pen and crossed into the general population...

...Their campaigns announced that, and I'm conflating wildly here, they were not in favor of gay marriage, despite having gay relatives, but they were in favor of civil unions and they hated that little upstart Confederate flag-waving front-running Vermont governor for bringing the whole thing up in the first place...

...It ain't pretty...

...There were some bright spots...

...Is it just me, or is that really creepy...

...Progress has been made...

...Apparently, we do need a piece of paper from the City Hall...

...After the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruling that the Constitution did not ban gay marriage, it was likened to moral chaos, nuclear war, partial birth abortion, and the extinction of the human race by Bill Bennett, Gary Bauer, the Focus on Other People's Family, the Frowning Concerned Women, and others...

...The media, when they weren't giving the O. J. treatment to Michael Jackson, were parroting more Rove power points...