Welcome to the �brave new world�
February 08, 2004 ~ 2:23 a.m.
Ladies and gentlemen, I�ve been called a �poser.� As Neil Young once sang, my my, hey hey. That actually made my night. Out of all the possible insults I could have had hurled at me by a pissed-off, just-turned 25-year-old guy, it was one straight out of a 13-year-old�s lexicon. Thanks, dude, that makes me feel young again. You�re a star, don�t ever change.
OK, I move on �
I�d like to clarify that, for those who think the majority must be trumped by the minority every now and then, not letting women vote or keeping blacks at the bottom rung of the societal ladder was never a tradition like marriage is. It was a practice. In order to see that the fairer sex and the ethnics in America got their due rights, the Constitution needed to be amended by a government that was sympathetic to the issues, to declare that, indeed, all men (and women) are created equal. No insidious practice can be maintained for long. Just as the end of segregation and Jim Crow reversed the tide for blacks, the abolition of affirmative action will make blacks, whites, Hispanics, what-have-you compete equally in a meritocracy someday. It�s bound to happen, it�s simply a matter of time (or so the fair-minded among us can dearly hope).
Marriage is not a practice designed to exclude homosexuals. It is not even an American invention. The joining of man and woman in matrimony has been around for centuries and takes place across the world, in most cultures. If we, in America, are to dictate that marriage include gays, are we to impose that same new definition on Europe, South America, Africa, Asia, Australia? If, say, Brazil tells us to go to hell for suggesting they change their ideas regarding the venerable institution, do we go to war with them over it?
You see, this is just the sort of war liberals would froth at the mouth in supporting. A country must be brought into the 21st-century kicking and screaming, damnit. Yes, you too, Brazil, will discover the grudge-bearing, humor-sapping, paranoia-inducing joys of political correctness and bring what consenting adults do in their bedroom right out into open society for all to witness, whether they agree with it or not. So fuck you, Brazil. We�ll just bomb your Catholic churches so none of your hetero population can get married. So there. Now you have no choice but to accept equal marriage for all.
Of course, in our anti-Brazil scenario, the liberals won�t call the conflict a war. They�ll call it �intervention.� We�re intervening on behalf of Brazil�s gay population, you see. Perfectly acceptable.
Now that, of course, is what American firepower should be used for, not toppling ruthless dictators in the Middle East. Yep, they weep at the sight of Saddam statues falling, but are only too keen to smash apart the institution of marriage.
Don�t be afraid of neocons, folks. Fear liberals instead. When it comes to shaping the nation, then the world in their image of what should be, they won�t hesitate for a second. Nothing is sacred, nothing is safe.
And if you don�t agree? You�ll be sacrificed at the alter of �humanism.�
Aldous Huxley was right. The �brave new world� is here, ready to smash apart all you�ve ever held dear to your hearts. Gay marriage is only just the start.
� M.E.M.
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