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most matters that engage me on this question have been addressed, often quite eloquently---thanks folks----all i have to say is that marriage is a legal question--it might lean on "traditional" conceptions, but once those conceptions get translated into law, those "traditional conceptions" (which are almost always ahistorical, arbitrary assemblages of information routed through an irrelevant network of texts) no longer matter.
it seems that most objections to gay people getting married are predicated on pushing the legal environment back into an arbitrary notion of tradition, which of course the christian right thinks that it holds a monopoly on defining.
i am left wondering why conservatives would care who other people choose to love, and why it would concern them if those people choose to avail themselves of the various protections afforded to folk who marry.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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