Posts by matt

OK, I’m not going to agree that this is anything resembling a “must-read” article, as the Note pegged it, but hee! John Edwards made a your-mother joke to Joe Lieberman!

The short version of this post: Marriage is about responsibility, not reproduction.

I intend to disembowl Jeffrey Rosen’s straw-man-laden, equivocating ghettoric from yesterday’s TNR Digital with a dull machete in due time. But first off, let’s define one term central to this debate:

Procreation. You will hear many, many times in the near-future the argument that gay unions aren’t entitled to state protection, because of the state’s “compelling interest in fostering procreation.”

Savor that little statement for a moment. Let it tiptoe on your tongue. Chew it gently. Spit it out.

What, exactly, could the state’s interest in fostering procreation look like? I picture official State Department broadcasts featuring Colin Powell crooning “Feelin’ On Yo’ Booty” while Katherine Harris twerks it on the White House lawn in a “Capitol Hill Is For Lovers” baby tee.

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The MA Ruling:

What did the court actually do?: The Massachusetts Supreme Court court said to the state legislature, and I quote, “This whole only-straight-people-get-the-pretty-cake business is a load of bull-honky.” They gave the legislature 180 days to create a civil marriage status for gays with the exact same legal rights and privileges as heterosexual marriage.

What could happen next?: The Mass. legislature has two choices

I hope you’ve heard the good news. The Massachusetts Supreme Court has finally handed down their long-anticipated ruling that denying gay couples the privileges of marriage violates the state Constitution.

And now comes the hard part.

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Is it, do you think, that The Washington Post is attempting to eradicate its image as one of the austere Grey Ladies with this substanceless black hole of absence parading as a column, complete with a paragraph-long paean to Wesley Clark’s nose? Are they trying to take the A out of “staid” and replace it with a big ol’ U.P.?

Is it not a sign of the end times that this report appeared on a section front page?

I understand the establishment Democrats (registration req’d.) are frightened about Howard Dean possibly becoming the Democratic nominee in 2004. And I agree, there’s a very real chance he could be nominated and get completely Punk’d by Karl Rove, Destroyer of Worlds, eventually dying friendless and alone in a Shaker commune, clutching his Joe Trippi doll.

But come now.

Marvel at the rhetorical contortionism some columnists demonstrate in portraying Howard Dean as the True Emerging Evil of the 2004 elections.

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