In the Nov. 24 "The Temporal Front," Russell Greim writes, "Theday is coming when a constitutional amendment will once and for alldefine marriage as a union between a man and a woman. Aconservative agenda? Perhaps. The desire of a majority ofAmericans? Absolutely."
The constitution was written as a means of preventing injusticein a nation of mixed citizenry, established in part because ourforefathers found a common thread to follow; that they, asAmericans, would never again allow anyone to force a way of lifeupon this great and noble nation. In the 1950s and 60s, the firmview of the majority was that African Americans were secondarycitizens; all it took was an old lady and a bus to begin to changeminds. Even then there was fighting; but the violence and harshagendas were a positive purging for the country. By the 1980s,conservative Americans, sharing views with people like David Duke,had lost in civil rights, but continued to wage a subversivewar.
The pattern has not changed, only gorged itself on today's wideravailability of different-minded people to attack. Greim states hehas, "Nothing against homosexuals," and yet the force of his wordsis argumentative, confrontational even. Only sentences before, inreferencing efforts in Indiana and Massachusetts to overturn a banon gay marriage, Russell responds, "The battle has only begun,"words typically loaded with inference and threat. He evens claimsto have, "Known homosexuals and have (has) been privileged to calla few of them friends," well, last I checked, one does not alignthemselves against their 'friends' and hope to maintain any regularnumber of them. I'm sure Russell also has many friends who havegotten abortions, and continue to spend time in his comfortablecompany, even amidst his damnations of their souls for murder, andconstant reminders that they 'stopped a beating heart.'
Russell says he, like more than 60 percent of Americans, doesnot 'feel' homosexuals should be married because it is aninstitution centered on raising children. With morepseudo-factuality, no sources were cited for such convenient proof,he continues to point out that in Norway homosexuals get divorcedmore than heterosexuals. That if we, "Allow homosexuals to marry,then we will eventually be forced to allow them to adopt and raisechildren."
Right, and next thing you know we'll have to let them use ourdrinking fountains, share seats beside us on the bus. Do we stillhave to pay them equally? What does all this have to do with theprice of tea in China? We are talking about America, Mr. Greim,self-declared nation like no other. Now, only a few pages earlier,in another article, the Daily News points out only 19.4percent of Indiana residents 25 and older have college degrees.That means one in five people on the street have been to aninstitution of higher learning. What are we learning in college, Iask my Ball State brothers and sisters, that we allow a voice ofavarice and contempt for others to be heard, neigh, in print? Welearned, at least some of us, that we're not the only person thatmatters, we were coaxed out of youthful naivety and selfishnessinto a greater world-view and became, hopefully, adults ready totake the reigns of this great beast and steer it into the newmillennium.
Homosexual marriage is no different than any other. Theinstitution of marriage was established to allow two individuals topublicly state allegiance to each other, promising to spend theirdays and nights, good times and bad, poor or rich, together, handin hand, ideally until death do they part. The reality is thathardly any marriages continue these days, and we have a friend withboth parents, those of us from the divorce generation, and manyfriends our own age who've divorced once or twice themselves.
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