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Weird weather and meme commentary
Oct. 3rd, 2006 09:06 pmWeird weather stuff all day. This morning was bright and sunny in spite of some hefty thunderstorms overnight that apparently just missed us. We got an inch of rain and one rattle of hail last night. Driving to work, however, I went from sunlight to a fog bank like a cloud just lying on the ground. It happened very abruptly right near the Harvard city limits. Fog was dense by the time I got to the library.
By lunch time things had cleared up, and the sun was shining. It was getting warm out (mid to high 80s F I guess) and a colleague who lives five miles north of town at the state line went home for lunch. She came back reporting dense fog at her house, and a temperature in the low 60s. That much difference in five miles. There was no wind, which probably helped keep the abrupt interface from breaking up.
Now about this meme thing that's going around. You know, the one that asks you to repost a statement that you support gay rights, or ignore it if you don't support gay rights? Well, I'm not going to post it. [gasp]
Here's why: I support equal civil rights for everyone, regardless of skin color, gender, height, weight, national origin or citizenship, language spoken, religious belief (or lack thereof), sexual identity (or lack thereof), age, marital status, educational status, race (whatever that means), skin color, eye color, hair color or length, clothing style (or lack thereof), or whether their belly button is an innie or outie. In fact, I even support equal civil rights for people of all political parties or no political party.
So I wouldn't wish the experience of being held a prisoner indefinitely without charges or habeas corpus or counsel and being water boarded or otherwise tortured even on the most rightwing neocon Republican. I'm even willing to allow that Republican to get married to a liberal Democrat, and I won't laugh at the sparks that are bound to fly eventually. At the same time, I will defend the right of two men or two women to marry each other legally until and unless all legal benefits and privileges associated with marriage are withdrawn from everyone, making all equal, married or unmarried. No tax breaks or penalties for the married. No SPECIAL PRIVILEGES for the married couple. No special insurance benefits, no automatic legal powers, no joint property or inheritance unless a legal contract or will is drawn up. The lawyers should love that. The married people who want to deny gays the right to marry will hate it, but hey, fair is fair. Just because their religion doesn't accept the idea of gay marriage doesn't give them the right to force their values on everyone else. My religion says anyone can marry anyone or anything they want to, and we have freedom of religion, right? Oh. That freedom is only extended to conservative protestant Christians who oppose abortion and vote Republican? Guess what... I defy you to find anything in the Constitution that says the US is a "Christian country" or has only two political parties or can only have executives from the southern tier of states and they must all be conservatives.
By lunch time things had cleared up, and the sun was shining. It was getting warm out (mid to high 80s F I guess) and a colleague who lives five miles north of town at the state line went home for lunch. She came back reporting dense fog at her house, and a temperature in the low 60s. That much difference in five miles. There was no wind, which probably helped keep the abrupt interface from breaking up.
Now about this meme thing that's going around. You know, the one that asks you to repost a statement that you support gay rights, or ignore it if you don't support gay rights? Well, I'm not going to post it. [gasp]
Here's why: I support equal civil rights for everyone, regardless of skin color, gender, height, weight, national origin or citizenship, language spoken, religious belief (or lack thereof), sexual identity (or lack thereof), age, marital status, educational status, race (whatever that means), skin color, eye color, hair color or length, clothing style (or lack thereof), or whether their belly button is an innie or outie. In fact, I even support equal civil rights for people of all political parties or no political party.
So I wouldn't wish the experience of being held a prisoner indefinitely without charges or habeas corpus or counsel and being water boarded or otherwise tortured even on the most rightwing neocon Republican. I'm even willing to allow that Republican to get married to a liberal Democrat, and I won't laugh at the sparks that are bound to fly eventually. At the same time, I will defend the right of two men or two women to marry each other legally until and unless all legal benefits and privileges associated with marriage are withdrawn from everyone, making all equal, married or unmarried. No tax breaks or penalties for the married. No SPECIAL PRIVILEGES for the married couple. No special insurance benefits, no automatic legal powers, no joint property or inheritance unless a legal contract or will is drawn up. The lawyers should love that. The married people who want to deny gays the right to marry will hate it, but hey, fair is fair. Just because their religion doesn't accept the idea of gay marriage doesn't give them the right to force their values on everyone else. My religion says anyone can marry anyone or anything they want to, and we have freedom of religion, right? Oh. That freedom is only extended to conservative protestant Christians who oppose abortion and vote Republican? Guess what... I defy you to find anything in the Constitution that says the US is a "Christian country" or has only two political parties or can only have executives from the southern tier of states and they must all be conservatives.
