“Here’s why marriage will likely survive last week’s crushing decision out of Massachusetts: Because despite all the horrors of Section 4, above, human beings want and deserve a soul mate; someone to grow old with, someone who thinks our dopey entry in the New Yorker cartoon competition is hilarious, and someone to help carry the shopping bags. Gay couples have asked the state to explain why such privileges should be denied them and have yet to receive an answer that is credible.” – from Dahlia Lithwick’s superb evisceration of the “defense of marriage” rhetoric.
EMAIL OF THE DAY: “My daughter was born with a cleft palate. We where shocked and saddened when she was born. We had no idea. Had we known it would never have occurred to us to abort our child. She had five surgeries before her 5th birthday. She is now a 19 year old college sophomore, studying engineering after graduating from high school with honors. She is a beautiful young lady and doesn’t suffer from lack of attention from the opposite sex. She has brought us great pain and great joy, as every child does to every parent. She will soon be a productive, well adjusted, tax paying adult and I couldn’t be prouder.
We are traveling a slippery slope, Andrew. How soon before someone argues that children, after birth, are not really viable until ‘X’ age? The right to choose begins in the bedroom (or back seat) not after the fact.” – more feedback on the Letters Page.
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