gay marriage, human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together - mass hysteria
Never trust a word Dr. Venkman says when it comes to predicting the outcome of ballot referendums.
I didn't get home from class until late last night, so I was probably among the last people in Denver to see the local election results. While a Ritter Administration may be interesting, the only race I really found compelling was Ref I, which lost by a very slim margin of about 4,000 votes.
I cursed out loud when the ticker at the bottom of the screen showed that - Colorado, after all, is now supposed to be among the political bellweather states, and the notion that civil rights for same-sex couples could make it here meant it could make it anywhere, a real big step forward for this country in a whole lot of ways.
Still, it's not a total flop. Four thousand's a mere smattering of votes in a state where Dobson is (was?) king. A proverbial kick in the proverbial nuts came when the bottom-screen tick showed right after that, in case you had any doubts, here in the Square State marriage is in fact the union of man and woman. Like Pauline Kael's apocryphal story about the New Yorker who couldn't understand why Nixon won when he didn't know anyone who voted for him, I'm having trouble myself with that, though the only campaign stuff I got was from the Ref I folks, and I'm interested to see how opponents of and man-wife supporters framed their side of the debate.
But frankly my dear, who gives a damn? That, and similar referendums, are becoming an increasingly ridiculous four acts of political theater: man and woman equals marriage. As they say on the internets, SFW? It's beginning to make a hollow sound, and as the fine print of Ref I showed, the debate's really moved past all that - indeed, marriage may be between guys and dolls, but infidelity knows no gender.
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