Today all gay people were supposed to refuse to go to work so that we could feel their absence from our lives. The gay people I work with all came to work, because they are all out and already know how important they are to all of us.
The deal the New York State Democrats made with the three holdout Democratic senators to assure an effective majority fell apart today, thankfully, because some senators had the balls to say that no one should bargain away the opportunity to have a reasoned discussion about what is really at stake if New York doesn't just recognize another state's gay marriage, but allows gay and lesbian couples to marry here.
I'm not sure anything is at stake, frankly, except for antiquated ideas about the value of human companionship and love.
And that was what Jon Stewart was getting at last night in his divine interview with former Republican presidential candidate, and a very smart man, I might add, Mike Huckabee. Stewart started by saying that he could understand his opposition to abortion, but he couldn't fathom what the problem was with gay marriage. Click here for the first part of the interview. Stewart is dogged and not nasty in any way for pressing Huckabee, disturbed that Huckabee has a rigid idea of what marriage is despite the fact that marriage, like all living things, is evolving.
But then again, was Huckabee one of the Republicans who raised his hand and said he didn't believe in evolution? Click here for the second part of the interview.
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