[AGL] Fwd: Mark Morford: Gay Marriage Is Still Evil? Nope, merely a politically sexy hot button...

[Frances Morey]

Wow! This guy sure knows how to call it like he sees it. I admit that I was never fond of the idea of "gay marriage," though I now have nothing against it. I felt that laws regarding marriage were instituted to protect women by definition. If gay men, or half of them, want the protection given women, who am I to deny them protection that comes with feigning womanhood. I remember in my own marriage how both of us longed to have a "wife"--read someone to do the housework, laundry, food purchasing, preparation and cleanup, attend to the yard, home repairs, auto maintenance, mending clothes, raising the children and paying the bills, for FREE. 
  A wifetime of this, under Texas law, entitles a married woman to claim half of all community property. No wonder guys find the female role so appealing, even if it's only protected with the abstraction of law. 
  The law ain't always what it is cracked up to be. I see gay marriage as an attorney-enabling-act, since such marriages all too often do end up in spats that require $10,000 divorce actions just like with the heteromarried.
  Best,
  Frances

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  Subject: Mark Morford: Gay Marriage Is Still Evil?
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From: "SF Gate Newsletters" <noteserrata at newsletters.sfgate.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 00:55:04 -0800

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  Gay Marriage Is Still Evil?
Because the funny thing is, despite all the frantic state bans, no one can really say why
By Mark Morford   Which reminds me, I still have yet to hear it.   Despite all the right-wing puling, all the Bible-humping and the anti-gay marriage campaigning in all those states that just banned it and how everyone in the nation has apparently been deeply contemplating what hot gay sex must really be like because, oh my God, it sure has been in the news a lot lately (thanks, Pastor Ted!), I still, as of this writing, to this very day, I still have yet to hear a single coherent and comprehensive explanation from the nation's homophobes as to what, exactly, is so wrong about gay love.   Oh, make no mistake, I've heard the theories. I have plenty of hissing, puerile, "fag"-laden hate mail. I've heard the half-baked notions regarding "debauched" morality, the necessity of procreation, the pseudoscientific studies claiming kids are in danger of being "recruited," the quivery references to bitterly homophobic interpretations of biblical passages that somehow "prove" that gay
 love is immoral, unethical, dangerous. It's all just a bit cute, in a grossly ignorant sort of way.   And yet, one by one, each and every one of these silly ideas has been rather effortlessly disproved, blown to spiritual or intellectual smithereens, discredited to death and/or laughed into oblivion much the way a true scientist shoots wine through his nose at the mention of creationism. ...   (click here to read the rest)   (Full URL: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/gate/archive/2006/11/15/notes111506.DTL&nl=fix)     
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