With the Massachusetts marriage decision on hold for who knows how long, and Pat Robertson urging his flock to pray for God to remove three justices from the U.S. Supreme Court, the culture wars continue unabated. Yes, there's always something to write about here at Culture Watch.
Another look at why conservatives should support gay marriage, by Rondi Adamson in the Christian Science Monitor:
true conservatives ought to support gay marriage, particularly those partial to family values. It's difficult to argue that society doesn't benefit from stable relationships. And what better way to encourage stable relationships than to support gay marriage? It is hard not to snicker at the idea that same-sex marriages would threaten straight ones. We straight people in Canada and the US have done a good job of bringing the divorce rate close to 50 percent all on our own.
Meanwhile, Mark Leibovich at the Washington Post sees the Human Rights Campaign's presidential candidates forum as pander bears on parade. Worse, most of the Democratic candidates' views on gay marriage aren't that much better than Senate leader Bill Frist's, though maybe they don't want to re-write the constitution to make their point.
Frist, by the way, is quoted in the Wash. Post's
Reliable Source (scroll down) commenting on the prospects of
gay marriage in Massachusetts thusly:
"Marriage is very simple: one man and one woman. Not two men or three men or four men or one man or one woman or two women and three women or three women and three men. It's not that. It's one man, one woman."
The Post says he held up various fingers to illustrate his points. He should have added, "I'm as big a bigot as Trent Lott, yes I am!"
I guess there'll be no free makeover for Frist from the gay guys
on Bravo's new "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" show, which appears
to be a
ratings hit (at least by Bravo's standards), with the network's
new "Boy
Meets Boy" reality show soon set to launch. But then political
change always seems to trail behind popular culture by about a
decade.