Watching the Parade go by

I’m not surprised at the outcome of today’s New York State Senate vote. The state legislature had a history of defeating any Gay rights bill brought before it for decades, and in the current state climate, the fact that Governor Paterson had made a stand for the bill almost guaranteed its failure. Still I’m disappointed that momentum has stalled on this issue, primarily because I want it to be resolved so that it will cease to be the monomania of the progressive sexuality movement. I’ve said it before , but here is my view on the whole thing: People should be free to formalise their relationships through any sort of ceremony they wish, with the corollary that the state has no business favoring one sort of arrangement over another, especially when those ceremonies take place with in the boundaries of religion. Nation-states are good for building highways and delivering mail, not for determining the structures of families. Until such a time as the state does indeed truly separate itself from the church, it should afford all of its citizens equal access to all of the benefits it offers, including those of marriage.

So I guess you can count me as one of those queers who really is out to undermine the sacred institution of marriage. But those dicks in Albany still should have passed the fucking bill.