New York Supreme Court Gay Marriage Ban-A Sarcastic Play

[dorktv]

Opening scene In a Bar

Man (drunkenly to woman next to him): Sechs?

Woman (also drunkenly): yesh

Six Weeks Later
Outside same bar

Woman: Oh! I am glad I ran into you again.

Man (guilty look): Uh why?

Woman: Remember the sex we had after meeting for the first time ever while completely and totally drunk?

Man: Um…yeah kind of?

Woman: Well guess what?! I am pregnant. Which makes joining my convent kind of hard.

Man: You are a nun! Wow! And I got married a week after we had that sex.

Woman: Well no, not a nun YET. But golly, we are a pair of completely irresponsible people.

Man: Yeah, but you know if I was not married I totally would marry you even though I have only known you for um *looks at watch and does a quick bit of math* a half hour. Because after all as a completely irresponsible person the state legislature has allowed for me to have incentive to get married even after a momentary intimate moment if it means a pregnancy results from it.

Woman: Yes, and it was a momentary moment. Besides you are too hideous to marry. But my brother is gay and him and his partner would love to raise this child even if it is a little sooner then they wanted.

Man: Yes and your breath smells so I would not be happy. But it would be great your brother would raise our child however, they cannot get married and have a stable relationship because the NY Supreme Court says that they plan all their children out.

Woman: Wait, how is this planning their children out? How would they know I was going to get knocked up from a drunken one night stand and give them the chance at their own little bundle of joy?!

Man: I have no idea. But I am sure that the NY Supreme Court is completely right that the state Lege has to provide incentives for irresponsible people like us to marry simply because a pregnancy has occurred by accident while gays do not need any incentives at all to be forced into anything since they plan ahead when having children.

Woman: Well this is not true at all since look, my brother is going to have his first child as soon as I give birth!

Couple exchange phone numbers for the legal stuff required in giving up a child for adoption and then leave to go about their day.

THE END

http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20060706/cm_thenation/1599577_1

[xchrom]

1. here's the quote

Judge Robert Smith ''The Legislature could also find that such relationships are all too often casual or temporary.''

[dorktv]

2. I know that but I read the quote in the Nation and heard it on the radio.

Even if the "legislature could also find that such relationships are all too often casual or temporary" that does not mean that the way the judgment was written is not a slap in the face of any gay couple who have been together for years and love one another and want the same right to marry their loved ones as the stupid couple in my play.

[xchrom]

3. oh no i know that -- it's how stupid the actual quote is

that's surprising.

[dorktv]

4. I heard it and I was "Um does NO ONE know the history of western

marriage?" Alliance, money, property, love, extra hands around the farm and the "Heir and Spare" are the main reasons people got married.

Children did not start becoming "children" until the past one hundred and fifty years or so. Even then we emphasize love as a reason to get married in this country unless the right wing wants to deny rights to someone.

Then it is all about the children that they gleefully neglect to vote for decent social supports.

[xchrom]

5. we could go back to the good old days where the village elders

and assorted grannies decided who you should mate with.

that's always charming.

plus now that this justice has put it this way - i think we should reconsider the marriages of any non-breeding straight people.

[dorktv]

7. Yep...time to start denying marriages to anyone who cannot comfirm

they are fertile.

[readmoreoften]

6. nice play

yes, i am disgusted. i think the court would honor arraigned marriages before our own. well, i'm just a second class citizen so what do I know.

[dorktv]

8. more then court does I bet.

Thank you by the way.