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2004/4/21 [Politics/Domestic/Gay] UID:13306 Activity:nil
4/21    Andrei Codrescu had a poem on All Things Considered last night,
        regarding gay marriage.  Does anybody have the text?  And before
        you accuse me of being an uppity NPR listener, I also watched Law
        & Order SVU, which really is the worst show on television.
        \_ Does this mean you have poor TV choice as well as being
           a commie pinko?
           \_ poor tv selection.
        \_ http://www.bestofneworleans.com/dispatch/2004-03-09/penny.html
           Not as impressive in print though; it loses his timing.
           \_ A *poem*?  that's a poem?!  Wow.  I'm 100% pro gay marriage,
              but I don't find myself hating NPR any less than before.
              What shit.
              \_ He's a poet, he wrote an essay, it sounded good in traffic.
                 Like I said, it loses something in print.  You don't have to
                 be a philistine about it.
                 \_ That must have been SOME traffic.
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To facilitate an orderly process, another constitutional amendment had to be passed banning clothes and haircuts that made men look like women and women look like men, and that still left the prickly problem of gender-confused people such as priests and Republicans. Then there was the question of civil disobedience, which caused many men and women whod never thought of it before to cross-dress on purpose. After the million-men-in-skirts and million-women-in-overalls march on Washington, the whole institution of marriage was in danger of toppling even more than it had in calmer days when the divorce rate was only 50 percent. Indeed, many argued that the amendment was going to finish marriage once and for all, because the only hope marriage had before the amendment was the hope that gay marriages might be more stable than straight ones. There were others, of course, who wanted to refine the amendment according to stricter biblical law, such as marriage shall be considered valid only if the wife is a virgin. If the wife is not a virgin, she shall be executed Deuteronomy 22:13-21. Such refinement would have the added advantage of thinning the marrying herd, but it presented, once more, the difficult problem of proving virginity, which would tie up the courts even longer. And others yet proposed that just declaring ones sex should be enough, the way it was back in John Waynes days when a man was a man and a horse was a horse, and women werent much, which is when there rose in Hollywood an actor named Ronald Reagan who started the moral revolution. In those days, there were already many men with long womens hair and women with short mens hair, and Reagans morals wouldnt stand for it. It took a while, but at long last a man named Bush was found to bring the revolution to this point. The rest is history, not herstory, mind you, though laughter can be heard more than faintly in the land.