[AGL] clerking at the recent election

[Wayne Johnson]

Frances.

Marriage is about sharing life with one another.  Part of that is sex, part is children (if one chooses to have them), part is about discovering how one person can learn about another person, part is about sharing experiences, part is about love - romantic love or platonic love, part is about growing older with another person.  Sadly most people never find someone they can share their dreams with.  But then, equally sadly, most people find they can no longer dream.  

wayne

All else is kitsch......
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Frances Morey 
  To: survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s 
  Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 6:26 PM
  Subject: Re: [AGL] clerking at the recent election


  Brother Wayne,
  They were voting against sodomy. Marriage isn't about love of your fellow man, it's about sex--a public declaration of who you are going to have sex with, and support (an afterthought), for the rest of your life. The idea of men having sex with other men is totally reprehensible to the rank and file (vile) and they certainly would not want it legalized.
  I find it all amusing since men are increasingly not willing to marry women, witness the change in the rate of women raising children alone without male partners going from 26% to 42% in a decade or so. Marriage itself is taking a real hit as an institution. Straight men refuse to marry, and gay men demand the right to marry, not women, but one another. Curious, isn't it?
  At my polling place, with three precinct's combined, there were just 350 voters, surprising since it was three downtown and university boxes. The outpouring both of gay men, many of whom I know, and the "straight" crowd, was overwhellming, for a bond election. We were busy all day and in previous bond elections there was a mere trickle, so little that I was able to read a book through the day. Not so on Tuesday.
  Frances

  Wayne Johnson <cadaobh at shentel.net> wrote:
    Hard to imagine how "gays" are going to make a bona fide "Texas Marriage" 
    any more destroyed than alcoholism, battering, child abuse, womanising and 
    becoming a couch potato slug at forty.

    Perhaps they were thinking of something else.

    Once upon a time, there was a certain "cachet" in being a Texan. Now it is 
    an embaressment. Maybe Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas could seceed from the 
    Union and form their own little backward, dumb-ass banana Republic. Laws 
    could be passed ensuring that noone living in Texas after a certain date or 
    age could leave GooberLand and make "social contact" with anyone else on the 
    planet in any manner that would threaten the genetic pool.

    Retch for Jesus.

    wgJ



    From: "Michael Eisenstadt" 
    To: 
    Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 3:27 PM
    Subject: [AGL] clerking at the recent election


    > after 14 non stop hours clerking at the recent
    > voting (no elections to offices, just constitutional amendments and some 
    > bond issues), I decided
    > never to do THAT again because of the silliness
    > of the issue. there was only one issue, amendment
    > 2 outlawing marriage other than between he and
    > and she. no trannies, no chickens, just he and she.
    >
    > but i changed my mind after my roommate showed
    > me a map of all the texas counties in the NYTimes,
    > all of them one color, except for 1 uncolored county in the middle. yep, 
    > Travis county voted
    > against Amendment 2. the rest, the greater unwashed,
    > voted "for" marriage which seemed/seems to me like voting to keep the 
    > wheel round or the sky blue.
    >
    > Texians, except for us locals, were afraid that the gays were out to 
    > "destroy" marriage. i had a lways known that marriage was a permanent part 
    > of the social nature of our species and was not amenable to being 
    > destroyed by gays or other miscreants. The Lege, collectively, apparently 
    > thought overwise, they not having my grasp of social reality.
    >
    > besides, after the fact, i kinda enjoyed disassembling
    > the 8 election machines and fitting their legs into the spaces designed 
    > for them on the bottoms. All
    > but one leg, which was jammed, disassembled and
    > i left the election machines reduced to large luggage-like plastic boxes 
    > on the floor secured by a padlocked armored cable through their handles, 
    > with one leg
    > sticking up like a dead bug. one full hour of using unaccustomed muscles.
    >
    > over 650 voters voting in just one precinct was a
    > great many compared to the usual turnout for a by-election. all through 
    > the day i thought they
    > were voting for; actu ally they were voting against.
    > 

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