Gays Engaged in a Battle for Hearts, Minds
Posted by: tony on 07/27/2006 02:32 PM
Updated by: tony on 07/27/2006 02:45 PM
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Expires: 08/27/2006 12:00 AM
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 There is an article in the L.A. Times entitled: Gays Engaged in a Battle for Hearts, Minds. In it, the L.A. Times writes about the reaction of gay activists to the series of losses in the courts with regard to gay "marriage".
After the recent setbacks, they see an urgent need first to convince the court of public opinion — and then, they hope, more and more courts of law — that their families are just like any other family, their children like any other children, their love just as deserving of official recognition.
I have known a number of gay couples, many of whom were living together like man and wife. Some had children. Almost to a person, they were wonderful people, doing the same sorts of things my wife and I do. They cannot, however, do one thing that my wife and I do together, and that is because there is not one penis and one vagina between them.
Stressing similarities is especially important, Giuliano said, because the legal argument for banning same-sex marriage rests almost entirely on the biological differences between gay and straight couples.
No, it rests entirely on the definition of marriage.
What would you do if you were walking past a dark alley, and you suddenly heard a voice behind you say: "Stick 'em up!". You wheel around and you see a small man in a mask, and you look down at what he is pointing at you, and it's a banana.
I would crack up laughing.
That is the same reaction I had when I first heard about "same sex marriage". It was like someone was pointing a banana at me and saying "stick 'em up". What made it funnier, was that the robber was convinced he was holding a gun.
So you start laughing, and the guy says: "Why are you laughing?!?!?" And you sputter through your tears of laughter "because you are trying to rob me with a banana!!!". And he jumps up and down yelling: "It's not a banana!!! It's a gun!!! IT'S A GUN!!!".
So you walk away wiping your eyes, and trying to catch your breath, thinking to yourself that this guy is delusional.
It was funny until lunatic judges started effectively declaring that a banana really isn't a fruit, it's a firearm. This is starting to cause all kinds of problems, one of which is the possiblity of getting arrested for carrying an unlicensed banana, but more importantly, real guns will not be taken seriously.
Facts are facts. A banana is a fruit. A gun is a firearm. A marriage is a man and a woman. This used to be common sense. It has absolutely no bearing on the actual gay persons. You may like them a lot. You may think they are wonderful neighbors. You may think their kids are the nicest and most well behaved in the neighborhood.
But that doesn't magically turn a banana into a firearm.
It's unfortunate that it might take a federal Constitutional amendment to say "a banana is a fruit".
(Hat tip to Roman Catholic Blog)
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