Thursday, August 29, 2013

Easy Reader, Gay Marriage, and Real Issues in California

Gay marriage is on a roll in this country. Eleven states have legalized it, and the Supreme Court just struck down the Defense of Marriage Act, the 1996 enacted by Bill Clinton.

Yawn, shrug, meh.

Gomer Pyles got married to his partner of thirty-eight years in Hawaii (he also grows macadamia nuts). Yawn. I wonder why Barney Fife didn’t show up. The town drunk getting dunked in the city jail was more entertaining in Mayberry than anything else. “Laugh with them, not at them,” the recently-deceased Andy Griffith often shared.

All I could do is shrug at this point. Marriage is a private matter, and only because the state got involved did men and women (sometimes hetero, sometimes homo) have to get a license to get married.

As more people who live the “gay lifestyle” see the opportunity to tie the knot, fewer people feel tied down to get married in the first place. “Meh” most of them share. Elton John still admits that his daughter would have been better off with a mother. He and his partner have not married, either.

Aside from the facts that the parts do not fit, that men and women throughout history have engaged in different types of contact and conduct, then returned to celibacy or normalcy, or that the high incidence of disease, death, and dysfunction has discouraged the conduct in many communities, who really cares if two men or two women get married.

The very people who want to, must be accepted with their lifestyle.

Last week, Easy Reader News published a picture of two gay men kissing each other.

As a resident, as a reader, and as a reasonable man, I have to wonder what is the value of such a cover, in the first place. I think about the youth in our Beach Cities who walk into public libraries and see covers of Easy Reader News, along with provocative covers from LA Weekly and other alternative publications.

“You have to accept me!” one gay-rights activist asserted over and over. That’s tyranny, with a little “t” of course. Then again, a lot of homosexual activists shouting “You have to accept me!” is more troubling, and the record shows. Activists have attacked churches in the past. Now, little children in Massachusetts have been taught that they may or may not be gay (How about that. It is a choice, after all!) Religion-affiliated adoption agencies have been forced to close down because they will not allow gay couples to adopt. Churches are changing their by-laws, for fear of lawsuits. These development are not good for a free society.

Of course, one of the most stringent arguments from the “Rainbow Lobby” (or “Rainbow Nazis” for the South Park crowd) goes something like this: “I was born this way,” or “I’m here. I’m queer. Get used to it.”

Well, most Americans are getting used to it, and the argument is getting used up. Yawn, shrug, meh.

No one really cares anymore, except that people who insist on living out their life, and you liking it, are getting on people’s nerves. Gay marriage has been a short-term for the liberal element in this country, yet in the long-run, it may end up doing nothing more than dragging up the non-attention of the Democratic Party to the serious, sensitive issues which the current administration has ignored or worsened.

Frankly, I do not believe that people are born gay, and I do not believe in gay marriage. At this point, this argument is non-essential, since the Supreme Court struck down Prop 8 on procedural grounds. So what if two consenting adults choose to marry. The greater concern lies with the risks toward youth, toward animals, and a free society.

California Children in wealthier districts are losing money for their public education just because they were born to wealthy parents. Palos Verdes parents are complaining about the Prop 30 bait-and-switch. More tax dollars were supposed to bring down class sizes. Didn’t happen.

Inner city kids are kidding no one with the low test scores and lower morale, as teachers unions and educrats preen to the lowest bidder to keep their statist-status quo government-ism in place. The students did not choose the parents (or lack thereof), they did not choose to be born in bad neighborhoods, and still they cannot choose the schools they want to attend. How is this fair, and why didn’t Governor Brown do something about it?
Speaker John Perez cares about transgendered students, so that he and/or she will be able to go to the bathroom of his/her choice instead of using a faculty or health office bathroom to change.

Liberal operatives have been hiding behind social issues for the past two election cycles in order to distract voters and tie up elections with non-essentials, while cities are going broke, public sector unions are taking more than voters, taxpayers, and just about everyone else can afford. Schools are failing, and flailing for funds, and Governor Brown, despite his best efforts, cannot push back against a federal order to release ten thousands inmates from overcrowded California prisons.

Gay marriage has become "yawn, shrug, meh" for voters, and California has seen enough of rainbow activism to make us sick, even of Skittles. When will Democrats start showing their true colors, when will they step up an deal with pension abuses, prison problems, and the host of other social and fiscal problems eating away at the state of California?

And for that matter, when will see a man and a woman embracing on the cover of a magazine? Such simple love has been all too missing from the media.

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