Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/

["Michael Best" <mbest AT dasya.com>]

About the recent discussion of gay marriage and apparent "liberal" slant to
the messages, I am one who doesn't have an exact opinion on this issue.  I
do know that such changes (basically a redefinition of "marriage") do have
an affect on society.  A few hundred "marriages" in SF aren't going to
affect you today, but the redefinition would probably affect your children.

Of course the very fact that we can say "same-sex marriage" means that the
definition has changed at least on paper.  What that means in the long run
is anyone's guess.

-- Michael Best

-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Beckett [mailto:thomas AT tbeckett.com]
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 8:42 AM
To: Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/
Subject: Re: [internetworkers] prayers to save marriage

childers.paula AT epamail.epa.gov wrote:
> And it is about love. Just ask any of those people who stood in the rain
> for hours in San Francisco.  Think about it - thousands of people,
> waiting in lines like a Star Wars premiere, in the rain & cold, to GET
> MARRIED.

The interesting thing here is that hundreds of gay couples have gotten
married in the last few days and the world has not come to an end.
Neither has the "institution of marriage" collapsed.  My own
heterosexual marriage seems to be completely unaffected by gay marriages
in SF, Massachusetts and Canada.  It's still that same old
"love-you-more-every-day" thing.

TaB