Zamunda

I cringed today as I heard President Bush dance around the subject of gay marraige in the State of the Union. Forgetting about all the other questionable things in that speech, I'd like to open a debate on gay marraige and why it should certainly not be restricted. This summer I worked in a warehouse full of middle-aged Zambian workers, and one day, after reading about how Bush was planning to put a bill through to stop it, I got into a discussion with them. You have to understand that homosexuality is seriously frowned upon in much of Africa (excluding RSA) and is punishable by imprisonment. They were also all steadfast christians, and many of them began quoting the bible to me. In fact, the Zambian equivalent of the Surgeon General recently made a statement proclaiming that he believed homosexuality was a psychological ailment to be treated accordingly with medicaiton. Eventually the only point I could make to get them to think was to say that they think of gay men the way white colonials thought of blacks. That got them to listen a little. Anyway I'm itching for an arguement on this, so if anyone out there wants to come at me in a civilized fashion I'd be happy to go.