Day: February 24, 2004

I don’t understand how anyone–including Bush–can advocate a ban on gay marriage. And Kerry’s no different. “Let’s have civil unions instead.” Because separate but equal is a time honored tradition in bias, and apparently gays are the new Negros.

How can anyone claim they are compassionate and deny people in love?

How cany anyone claim they advocate less government interference in the lives of Americans and yet support the concept of laws banning what two consenting adults may do that hurts nothing and no one?

And for me, most dámņìņg of all…how can anyone remotely pretend that there is a separation of church and state in this country when the government is endeavoring to tell religious institutions what they can and cannot do? It is not remotely analogous to a state removing the responsibility for a gravely ill child from Christian Scientist parents because they’re hoping prayer might save their child when the doctors know medicine or an operation surely will. This is the Federal government telling every religion in the country, “We don’t care what you believe: This offends our sensibilities, and we will stop you.”

You’ve heard of the War on drugs? The war on terrorism? Congratulations and welcome to the War on Love.

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That’s how my sister, Beth, explained it to her concerned little daughter, Sarah. Sarah’s baby sister, Emma, had a “boo boo in her tummy,” and that’s why Emma is in the hospital, and why her mommy has to go be with her now for days on end.

In a more adult way of phrasing it…my little niece is distressingly ill. Checked in at the Children’s Hospital in Hartford, CT, she has been vomiting up everything that goes into her stomach for several days now. They’ve had her on an IV drip to keep her hydrated, but she hasn’t been keeping down more than two ounces of fluid an hour. And since she’s an infant and the veins in her arms weren’t big enough, they had to put the IV tube in her foot…except she wound up kicking it out and now her foot’s swelled up so that’s no good, and she just kicked it out of the other one.

I dunno. I’m not a big believer in the collective power of prayer, but on the other hand, I’m not above seeking any resource at this point.

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The second installment in Marv’s time-spanning adventures as he seeks not only to save Marlo, but determine just how he’ll be remembered by future generations. Whad’ja think?

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