{"id":174,"date":"2005-09-28T10:00:58","date_gmt":"2005-09-28T14:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2005\/09\/28\/deja-vu\/"},"modified":"2005-09-28T10:00:58","modified_gmt":"2005-09-28T14:00:58","slug":"deja-vu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2005\/09\/28\/deja-vu\/","title":{"rendered":"Deja Vu"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last night was eerily similar to last Tuesday night. I got home, I did laundry, I ironed shirts, I showered and shaved and I went to bed. Last week it was in preparation of my nieces funeral, last night was in preparation for her memorial. I confirmed with my sister-in-law yesterday that a suit and tie wouldn’t be required at the memorial. It’s going to be less formal than the funeral so I’m wearing my stylin’ black Zara pants and fitted striped shirt from Mexx (thanks Chris!). Fortunately, I don’t have to stress about the tie this time.<\/P>
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Oh, and also after a second consecutive Tuesday evening spent ironing, I still don’t understand how so many of you people find pleasure in doing it. I received absolutely no satisfaction in the end. In fact, all I felt was annoyance that society frowns upon synthetic fibers.<\/P>
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Anyway, I came into work this morning to find one of those joke\/political emails. I thought some of the points in it were funny so I’m doing something incredibly rare for me and copy\/pasting here. It’s a humorous anaylsis of the arguements against gay marriage.<\/P>
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1) Being gay is not natural. Real Americans always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, liposuction and air conditioning.

2) Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall.

3) Legalizing gay marriage will open the door to all kinds of crazy behavior. People may even wish to marry their pets because a dog has legal standing and can sign a marriage contract.

4) Straight marriage has been around a long time and hasn’t changed at all; women are still property, blacks still can’t marry whites, and divorce is still illegal.

5) Straight marriage will be less meaningful if gay marriage were allowed; the sanctity of Brittany Spears’ 55-hour just-for-fun marriage would be destroyed.

6) Straight marriages are valid because they produce children. Gay couples, infertile couples, and old people shouldn’t be allowed to marry because our orphanages aren’t full yet, and the world needs more children.

7) Obviously gay parents will raise gay children, since straight parents only raise straight children.

8) Gay marriage is not supported by religion. In a theocracy like ours, the values of one religion are imposed on the entire country. That’s why we have only one religion in America.

9) Children can never succeed without a male and a female role model at home. That’s why we as a society expressly forbid single parents to raise children.

10) Gay marriage will change the foundation of society; we could never adapt to new social norms. Just like we haven’t adapted to cars, the service-sector economy, or longer life spans.<\/EM>
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