Gay Marriage

Marriage, when you get right down to the nuts and bolts of it, is a social contract. The "providing for the stable emotional and financial support for raising children" argument does not hold due to the fact that many married people do not have children, yet they are still considered to be "married". The "God-ordained" part of it is made mockery by the level of divorce, notably among those very proponents of the ban on gay marriage. God change his mind? Religious arguments lack merit due to the demonstrated hypocrisy of the practitioners.Iif two consenting adults wish to enter into the contract of marriage, which is to co-support one another financially and medically, then I say let them. They can enjoy the marriage tax penalty along with the rest of us, and watch their credit ratings go to hell when co-mingled with their spouses, and can suffer the pleasure of divorce.

I've heard this tune before

When I was a little kid attending public school in Berkeley California in the late Sixties I was convinced by my teachers that because of the population explosion the whole world would starve and I would not survive to the age of 21. People in India were having too many babies. Bangladesh. I remember population curves that were exponential. Food could not be grown fast enough to feed us all. I was truly affected by this. What happened? Now I hear that the population will top out in the next 50 years and start to decline. The European birthrate is substantially below 2.0 in many places. "Not enough white people are breeding!" is the sinister undercurrent. "Too many old people!" is the cry in Japan. This will apparently cause the collapse of the world economy. We're not starving. The opposite is true: everyone seems to be fat all over the world including the very poorest countries. Funny how it has all proven wrong in 30 years.

Now I hear all about global warming. We are all going to die, I hear. The ocean is acidifying (kind of like acid rain...what happened to that?) and that the corals are dying and the ice caps are melting and we are all going to die. While I don't want to discount the evidence for global warming, the evidence in 1969 for population explosion was also irrefutable. Somehow I can't get too excited about global warming because I lived through the population explosion scare. Herpes was going to kill us all. Acid rain. Killer bees. AIDS was going to wipe out the planet. None of this crap has happened. I contribute this to the ingenuity of mankind. Does this make me an optimist?