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Defense of What?

September 12, 1996

I would be angry about the Defense of Marriage Act but it is so laughable I can't. Couldn't they at least have named it the "Definition of Marriage" Act? Exactly how does defining marriage as between one man and one woman defend marriage? What are we defending it against? Are there legions of queers out there wrecking heterosexual marriages? OK, so the current Cosmo has an article I Left My Husband for Another Woman. The IRS is more of a threat to the institution of marriage than an occasional rapturously idealized lesbian fling. (Aside: you gotta read this story. If it was written by a lesbian I'll eat my hat. )

So what are the threats to marriage? the IRS, corporate downsizing, corporate greed, cancer, heart disease, isolation, poverty, infertility, domestic violence, indifference, unemployment, addiction, lack of health care, lack of childcare...

I've seen the members of my own family, gay and straight, struggle with the forces of the '90s these past couple of years and it takes every bit of strength we have. Without each other we'd be lost. In sickness and in health, for richer for poorer, for better or worse we survive.

End of soap box. This journal thing will get back on track soon. Must be the weather...

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