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About a week or so ago some moron in our County Board of Commissioners (local government in Jackson County, Michigan) introduced a resolution that would supposedly stand up for the sanctity of marriage by urging our state representatives to amend our state constitution to say that marriage is only between a man and a woman. In the week or so since, these guys have been in the media speaking against gay marriage and the like, culminating in the local headline that was something to the effect of "Sanctity Proposal Passed".
I sent in a letter to the editor today. Here it is:
Good job, {author of bill} and the Jackson County Board of Commissioners! I think it's about time that someone stood up for the sanctity of marriage. Right now, we live in a world where almost half of all first-time marriages end in divorce, where celebrity marriages don't even last as long as a gallon of milk, where we're bombarded with "reality" television shows like "Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire?" and "Married By America". So protecting the sanctity of marriage sounds like a pretty darned good idea to me.
That's why I'm puzzled over this move by the Commissioners to protect the "sanctity of marriage" by passing a resolution urging the state to limit the rights of homosexuals. Seems to me that it's us straight people that have been screwing up the "sanctity of marriage" so far. It's like author Ernest Benn once said, "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy."
Way to go, guys!
Anyone else's local government attacking civil rights lately?
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