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To: LindyBill who wrote (28187)	2/6/2004 12:32:27 PM
From: E	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793917

Well, hello, E! I think you are all unlucky that you don't live in Waikiki like me. :>) That's true. We're iced in thoroughly today. That was my "pursuit of Happiness" rant I pull out when I get to bantering with someone like Steven. Okay, I misunderstood; I assumed you were attempting to be actually responsive to the points made. My basic puzzlement over the gay marriage issue is why anyone cares who other people marry. If it's a friend, and you fear they're making a mistake they'll live to regret, you will feel distress, but presumably you won't propose legislation giving you the power to veto their choice of spouse. Any heterosexual monster can marry any other heterosexual monster and bring helpless babies into the world. None of those incensed at the idea of gay marriage is proposing Constitutional amendments restricting the marital-choice rights of citizens with, for example, documented histories of domestic violence, drug dealing, assault, murder, rape, burglary, bestiality, or child molestation. You can even commit matricide and patricide and get married under the law, if you marry a person of the opposite sex. But they want to prevent a nice, law-abiding, responsible gay couple from marrying, though they've loved each other and lived in happy harmony for, say, thirty or forty years. Maybe it's an evolutionary psychology thing. Maybe some people fear that their children will be drawn to sexual partnerships that won't yield the perpetuation of their genes. (Intuition makes me suspect that those who feel deep down that legally-imposed social sanctions against certain sexual behaviors may be necessary to keep their children from it, themselves find the behaviors to some degree tempting, so get all frantic over it.)