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aslouie -> RE: Homosexuality in the News (10/30/2008 11:58:10 PM)
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I guess with my home state's heated efforts to either legitimize/strike down recognized gay marriage, I would like to offer my personal opinions (provided nobody else have taken note and done it for me[&:][8|]): I recalled in reading some celebrity comments about the institution of marriage, there's always some that will (snobbishly?) opine that it's just a legal contract, or a piece of paper. Yet, when something like Prop 8 comes into play, some of those same Hollywood elite (i.e. Natalie Portman... sorry Princess Amidala[8D][&:]) are advocating the legal right for gays & lesbians couples to openly marry--NEVER MIND the fact isn't this the same legal right that THEY like to ridicule as outdated, oppressive, etc...? I don't know about everyone here, but I was almost reminded of this ironic piece of wisdom from none other than Gore Vidal, when he said in some past, TIME magazine interview that if traditional heterosexual marriage is such a disaster for the straight world, why then should the gay community adopt this likewise? And this mind you, is coming from someone who's lauded as one of the 20th century's, greatest lions of the left--who just so happens to have shared a gay relationship with his late partner, Howard Auger! *I'm thinking Vidal is following a relationship version of the, "If-it-ain't-broke, why-fix-it?" philosophy! Personally, I'm facetiously speculating the possibility that it won't be long until there's a "revolutionary" new dysfunctional family sitcom--featuring two bickering gay parents, in the tradition of Married With Children!* *and I'm thinking the same Fox News Channel owner, Rupert Murdoch, will be tucking this as another laurel to his media empire resume!
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