Here's another straight guy who just doesn't get it. Eric Zorn, a columnist for the Chicago Tribune, just doesn't understand that the right-wing has explained how same-sex marriage has irrepairably damaged his and will eventually destroy society. Even worse, he says he and his presumptively straight wife are INSPIRED by them!
Nice to have you on my team Eric.
Does your marriage feel a little less special today, straight couples?
Does knowing that octogenarian lesbians Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon had a legal wedding this week in San Francisco diminish, in retrospect, your legal wedding? Does their bond profane yours?
Not at our house it doesn't. My wife and I simply feel inspired. Martin and Lyon have been a couple for 56 years—twice as long as we've been together—and we see them as role models, not harbingers of the decline of the family.
We celebrate their lifelong commitment and lasting love. We think the family could use a lot more of that and a lot less puritanical fretting about what name we put on the hopeful union of souls.
We're honored, even a little humbled, to share this institution with Martin and Lyon.
Since the comment function has been turned off on this post on the Tribune site, it's fair to assume that not everyone agreed with this view.
Click here to read the rest of the column.
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