First off, it is terrifying to read the transcripts that come out of the Supreme Court. The nine members of the court talk over everyone else, so the transcript can ony get part of every third sentence. Really, it’s ridiculous.
Second, of course, I need to apologize to Missouri because I have not been popping out State Babies. No one told me about “the Government’s interest in regulating procreation through marriage.” That was the foundation of the argument against gay marriage, “that gay and lesbian couples can be denied access to marriage on the ground of an interest in responsible procreation.” (I suppose “spite” wasn’t a wordy enough reason.)
And here I have not been procreating responsibly. I have not been fulfilling the “vision of marriage as procreation of children.”
You know what’s next? The gavel comes down and sterile couples have to get divorced. And I bet the voluntarily sterile couples have to get divorced first.
Very creepy words to hear discussed by the highest court of the land.
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This starts to sound more and more like Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale.
I told my ex years before we married that I would never have children. Much later, I found a note from him that marriage without children was pointless. Nice. Twenty years of my life spent being pointless.
and then we’ll take all the old people and shove them off on icebergs. ’cause they’re also infertile.
gah.
penis biters. that’s all i’m sayin!
Becs – never read The Handmaid’s Tale. It sounds sad. And I remember Gary corrected me once when I said we were a family, because he had no kids.
Magpie – No, they are often grandparents. I’m sure that has value.
Mrs. Hall – no biting!
I insist that you use your Amazon powers and purchase a copy of A Handmaid’s Tale. Now. Just go do it. Get back to us after you have read it.
Zayrina – I should warn you I have three books on the iPad that I’m only half done with. I read Emotional Intelligence until I got lesioned-out, then Jack Gray’s CNN bio lost me, and I am plowing through the Dorothy Parker bio. I couldn’t get another book until I finish or delete one, and I don’t know how to delete iPad books.
They still sell them in paper.
Zayrina – It sounds sad.
If you fail to read it uou must turn in your woman card and your liberal card.
Zayrina – Oh! I did not know that. I’ll read it then.
You’re probably just saying that so I will go away. I want a 2 page summary on my desk by Friday.
Zayrina – I already bought it! No book report unless it captures my interest more than this Dorothy Parker bio.