New Look

I got tired of the look of the Daily Cud, so today I decided to use a different template. Blogger offers six or seven different styles, just click a button and presto, chango, new look. I could learn HTML and make up my own, but I don't see that happening any time soon. I could, I know I really could, I just don't want to mess with it. It took long enough to figure out how to add hyperlinks when I started writing this. Now I have been trying to figure out how to add permanent links so I could set up a section by the links to the archives with links to the book and movie reviews I plan on writing, and just that much HTML is driving me insane. I am going to get some tutoring from my neighbor this weekend. He is a computer super-freak. Actually, I don't know if he's a computer super-freak, I am just writing that to suck up to him in case he reads this.


Gay Marriages

The Onion has a hilarious article on gay marriages this week. It is funnier than shit. I'm linking to the article, but I doubt if the link will last more than a couple of weeks or a month. The link I put in here earlier to the article about the guy that complained that his mother found his blog doesn't work anymore. The Onion Rocks, but they can't keep everything on-line indefinitely. I just wish I had copied and pasted that article somewhere. I just didn't want to plagiarize anything. I know you can copy parts of things for educational purposes, so I'm going to educate you on the gay marriage issue.


From The Onion:

Massachusetts Supreme Court Orders All Citizens To Gay Marry

BOSTON—Justices of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled 5-2 Monday in favor of full, equal, and mandatory gay marriages for all citizens. The order nullifies all pre-existing heterosexual marriages and lays the groundwork for the 2.4 million compulsory same-sex marriages that will take place in the state by May 15.

"As we are all aware, it's simply not possible for gay marriage and heterosexual marriage to co-exist," Massachusetts Chief Justice Margaret H. Marshall said. "Our ruling in November was just the first step toward creating an all-gay Massachusetts."

Marshall added: "Since the allowance of gay marriage undermines heterosexual unions, we decided to work a few steps ahead and strike down opposite-sex unions altogether."

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Hundreds of confused but vocal protesters lined the street outside the statehouse Monday night, waving both American and rainbow flags. Their chants, which broke out in pockets up and down the street, included, "Hey hey, ho ho, homophobia's got to go, but frankly, this is fucked up" and "Adam and Eve or Adam and Steve, but not Adam and Some Random Guy." Others held signs that read, "On Second Thought, Boston Christians Are Willing To Consider A Compromise."


There is more on the Onion's web page, you've got to check it out. Funny, funny, funny. Also, there's an article on Bush. He's always good for a few chuckles.

On a more serious note, I don't understand why straight people are so uptight about gay people wanting to get married. If two adults love each other, and want to spend their lives together, why does it matter what sex they are? I think part of the problem is when straight people think of gays, the vision that pops into their heads is what I call Fags on Floats. You know them, the flaming fags, the ones that like to ride in parades wearing nothing but a long curly blonde wig, leather chaps, and a tiger-print G-string. That's probably about .002% of the gay population of the US, but it's what people remember. How could you forget seeing something like that. On the other hand, why would you even notice the gay couple in business suits standing next to you watching the parade? Or the lesbian couple in the grocery store arguing over which brand of coffee is really good to the last drop?

If people want to 'protect' marriage, they should outlaw divorces, not gay marriages. That's coming from someone who has been divorced. I don't know what I would have done if I couldn't get divorced. Maybe I would still be married to my first husband, or maybe I wouldn't have been so quick to get married the first time if I had felt like that whole 'till death do us part' thing was for real. Everybody knows that's just a formality, like having 'In God we trust' on all our money. People also say they are trying to 'protect the children' but that's a bunch of bullshit, too. How does outlawing gay marriage protect anybody? It doesn't help the kid on welfare whose mother has to work two jobs because her deadbeat ex won't pay child support. It doesn't help the kid who has to watch his alcoholic father beat his mother.

Most people don't realize marriage is a legal contract, not just a religious ceremony. I got married twice, and never had a religious service. Both times I just went to the court house, found a judge, and got married. No preacher, no church, no rice in my hair. I could have gone to the church, walked down the aisle and done the whole spread, but without the paper from the courthouse it wouldn't have been legal. Most states have common-law marriages, where if you live together for so many years you are automatically married, whether you wanted to be or not. No preacher, no judge, not even a piece of paper.

Anyway, I think the government should marry any two adults that want to get married. If the Baptists or Mormons or Catholics don't want to marry two men, they don't have to perform the ceremony. Nobody's going to twist their arms. But they shouldn't be able to dictate the rules for everybody else.