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To: one_less who wrote (422515)	7/3/2003 11:46:55 AM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

I don't see gay marriage as the social tsunami some make it out to be. In fact, it would be kind of interesting to call the gays' bluff. You want your long term monogamous relationships to be legitimized by the state? Ok. Let's see what fraction of the gay population take advantage of it. Let's keep statistics on their longevity and compare it to heterosexual marriages. Long term one to one relationships are not the paradigm I see celebrated in gay pride parades in every city every year.

To: one_less who wrote (422515)	7/7/2003 8:58:42 AM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

As I was saying the other day, looks like Gays in Canada were bluffing about their desire for "marriage": Monday, July 07, 2003 If you build it, they will come. It worked for the baseball diamond in the movie Field of Dreams, but apparently it doesn't work for gays. Weeks after an Ontario court invited gays to wed, a decision enthusiastically feted at Toronto's Gay Pride events, The Washington Post claimed "hundreds of gay Americans are streaming north to get married." But in fact only about two dozen or so couples have signed on for a major-league commitment. Embarrassing, to say the least, for gay marriage proponents. If not in ultra-liberal Hogtown, where? If not now, when? . . . The Field of Theory is landscaped and ready. Where are the players? The answer is: The whole marriage-for-gays movement is a construct of the liberal imagination, a naked Emperor on parade, and the cheering throng -- blindfolded by choice -- are the activist judges, timorous politicians and anti-establishment intellectuals who have co-opted what should have been a national debate on an issue whose unknown social consequences have not been considered in the rush to eradicate history. The gay-marriage-rights issue has been fabricated out of whole cloth by social revolutionaries who have run out of traditional social institutions to mow down. The fact is: The overwhelming majority of heterosexuals want to marry because in doing so they are joining a historical stream and are reinforcing links to the generation that came before as well as affirming the one to follow. The overwhelming majority of gay men do not want to marry because, by biological definition, they are not in the historical stream. Unlike heterosexuals, every generation of homosexuals must re-invent itself. This is why the spectacle of a gay marriage ceremony will never have the solemn impact or underlying meaning of a real marriage. . . . nationalpost.com