(I thought I posted a version of this diary before, but maybe I only previewed it, or maybe the Editors deleted it because they felt I was misprepresnting the views of the editors by taking the results of this poll as a position statement … [Read more...]
Marriage Equality – my view
Pauliji> What has procreation got to do with same-sex marriage?The marriage licenses are procreation licenses. You are right that we absolutely should not have seperate procreation licences, but that is where pursuing same-sex … [Read more...]
Egg and sperm means marriage
Funny, I never knew this before, but I happened to be looking at a definition of gamete, and I learned where it comes from:New Latin gameta, from Greek gamete, wife and gametes, husband, from gamein, to marry, from gamos, marriage.That … [Read more...]
web.archive.org to the rescue!
Thanks johnk for letting us know about the Internet Archive site, so that we can see stuff has been removed from the internet.Now I can show people the short-lived web story on GayCityNews.com entitled "Science's Hope of Two Genetic … [Read more...]
Your mother is your sister
This post on FamilyScholars is interesting, about a mother with a seven year old daughter who is freezing her own eggs because doctors think her daughter might not be able to produce her own eggs when she is an adult. I don't think I … [Read more...]
Connecting to proxy.blogads.com…
OK, do whatever you want with the dirty money, but it really sucks that "recent comments" don't get displayed for at least 30 seconds, sometimes never. My browser just sits there waiting for blogads to wake up before it displays … [Read more...]
Waiting for st.blogads.com…
Seems like my browser is always hung up "waiting for st.blogads.com" and until the blogads get displayed, the "recent comments" aren't displayed. Is it really worth whatever beer money those things generate? They seem to be … [Read more...]
Should SSC be allowed? POLL
No beating around the bush, either it should be a crime, or it should be legal.As always, I'm talking about doing whatever it takes to join the genes of two people of the same-sex, creating shared genetic offspring together, I'm not talking … [Read more...]
New Hampshire Civil Union vote this week
I am getting pretty good responding to the objections when people first are confronted with the idea. In fact I think this is a perfect exchange - my questioners are respectful and intelligent and ask good questions, and I only … [Read more...]
Easy to say “marriage”
This NYT story has some relevant insight into the civil union versus marriage debate. It seems that in practice, it isn't very hard to call civil unions marriages:Marcie Horowitz and Margaret Maloney of Westfield, partners for … [Read more...]