(Or was I wrong to call Sam Wilkinson’s suggestion about, in short, owning bigotry “ludicrous”? Have we reached and passed the point (again?) on bigotry where a critical mass of people now view the charge as a “badge of honor”?…
Marriage of Equality and Inequality
Latest, possibly last comment for now on remaining questions regarding the recently accepted marriage proposal and blanket charges of bigotry against skeptics
I intend the following post to be my last for now on the Same Sex Marriage debate, as I have other business to attend to – including the delightful prospect of setting up a “Subversion” suite (sorry, it’s a web…
Additional on Sowing the Wind: Polygamy and Incest as ‘Next Steps’
I’ll be posting another, earlier comment of my own from the aforementioned OT thread, dealing specifically with the polygamy question as raised, a bit breathtakingly, by an apparently entirely (insistently) in earnest commenter speaking up for an end to the…
On Sowing the Wind on Behalf of the Same Sex Marriage Movement
My unamended comment at Ordinary Times, under a post with the perfectly ironic title “Bigots Come Out Of the Closet”: As for me, what more can I do but offer an open ear to their explanations. Someone who italicizes, boldfaces,…
Further on the 3rd position on SSM and Procreative Concept
I still intend a more systematic treatment on the issues raised by the SSM phenomenon – by which I do not mean “new reasons to attack SSM” – but for the moment I’ll just re-produce another comment at OT, this…
Procreative Concept and the Insult to Gays; My Father’s Gifts; Roger’s OK
Been very busy at OT lately, having entrapped myself by starting to fix, develop, re-design the site on the fly. Whole new vistas of massively unpaid labor are opening before me, though maybe I’ll eventually figure out how to monetize…
Posted in Marriage of Equality and Inequality, Meta, notes, Web Design Tagged with: Duncan MacLeod, marriage equality, Roger McLeod
Logically Congenital Defect
A discussion at the Practical Ethics blog happens to provide a typical example of an inquiry that treats the re-discovery of its own presumptions under different terms as validation, this time under the heading of sexual morality. The defect in…
Posted in Marriage of Equality and Inequality, Philosophy, Untimely Tagged with: Incest, Necrophilia, Untimely
“the belief that gay people are evil”
That bigots as well as the normally selfishly indifferent are grouped together on the other side of SSM has been a problem, perhaps the decisive concrete political problem, for the socially conservative position on marriage. It has meant that to support SSM and the larger gay rights agenda equates with rebuking “the bigots.” It also has provided the element of truth in the charges made against SSM opponents. The potential for a parallel syndrome to appear on the pro-SSM side has always been latent, and its political fortunes may be overdue for market correction.
His Husband, Her Wife
If a word as spoken does not contain the entire history of its usages, neither does it offer any defense against them
The Marriage of Equality and Inequality – 3: Brave New Worlds
The civilization-level question may point toward a technologically enabled defeat of organic kinship or, alternatively, its resurgence amidst the collapse of the Western or liberal-progressive model, but it may take a very long time for such a deep-going process – a matter of “generations” in more ways than one – to work itself out. At our moment, marriage equality remains a peculiar twilight phenomenon, part revision, part eclipse.
Posted in Culture & Entertainment, Featured, Marriage of Equality and Inequality, Philosophy, Politics, Religion Tagged with: gay marriage, marriage equality, Same-Sex Marriage, Traditional Marriage