Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Of Meteorites and Marriage: Considering humanity's possible calamities, marriage-equality shouldn't make anyone's list

Opinion: About 20 days ago, a blazing meteorite tore through our atmosphere and exploded over Russia. This was a minor rock, relatively speaking, didn't even see it coming. We had our eyes on ''DA14,'' the much bigger threat that happened to be flying by on the same day and which could've inflicted vastly more damage than its little unnamed cousin did. Still, with about a thousand injuries, I don't think I would find the former at all minor if I'd spent Feb. 15 in a Russian clinic having the glass of a blown-out window extracted from my flesh. Looking in the other direction, about 20 days forward to March 26, that's the date for opening arguments in Hollingsworth v. Perry, the case challenging California's law against marriage equality. The National Organization for Marriage is marking the occasion – along with the usual suspects – with the March for Marriage. Comparing both points on this timeline, one can't help but think of the absurdly misplaced attention of these folks. These are godly people. If falling skies aren't a celestial poke that their priorities are woefully out of whack, what is? ... (more)

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