In S.F., a celebration of all things Boston

The woman in white go-go boots sported a Boston Red Sox jersey over a lacy white wedding gown and held hands with her lesbian partner to lead 200 cheering people in a march down Market Street Tuesday evening.

San Francisco commemorated the Massachusetts Supreme Court decision Tuesday legalizing same-sex marriage with all the diversity of its gay-lesbian community on display -- from drag queens to soccer moms -- and lots of Red Sox caps and Boston cream pie.

Luke 11:45-52

One of the lawyers answered him, "Teacher, in saying this you insult us also."

He said, "Woe to you lawyers also! For you load men with burdens that are difficult to carry, and you yourselves won't even lift one finger to help carry those burdens. Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. So you testify and consent to the works of your fathers. For they killed them, and you build their tombs. Therefore also the wisdom of God said, 'I will send to them prophets and apostles; and some of them they will kill and persecute, that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation; from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary.' Yes, I tell you, it will be required of this generation. Woe to you lawyers! For you took away the key of knowledge. You didn't enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in, you hindered."

When I was in high school my best friends dad decided he was queer. Or part queer. Or mostly confused.

Anyway, this led to me meeting literally dozens of queer men. My friends dad opened up a business in the Montrose area in Houston. He basically bankrolled the business for his queer boyfriend (who eventually robbed him blind). The business was on the corner of Montrose and Westheimer and my buddy and I were always down there doing things for his dad. And meeting queers. They also had a big house and were always having parties (my friends mom didn't mind all of this, she was too drunk). More queers to meet.

My friends sister was a lesbian too. Mean gal but she did collect Playboy magazines so she was good for something. Hey I was 17:)

So, after a period of several years I met all sorts of queer men and lesbians. I got to know some of them pretty well. BTW, most of the men tried to seduce either my buddy or me. Which was a huge waste of their time.

I learned from all of these people that I'm very happy not to be queer. Because all of them, all of them, once you peeled them back a bit were just wretched. Oh, on the outside they were "happy". But basically they were all self-loathing and somewhat pathetic. And some were just pissed off. They didn't seem to like what they were and they didn't like those that were not like them.

In my opinion one of the biggest mistakes we have made in this county regarding queers (a very small amount of the population) was to let them get a foothold on being "normal". Once they started to be "gay" and received some slack from the general public the radical ones started to chew away. And start to make the queers "normal".

I know one thing for sure. Queer men are not normal. But most of them want to be looked at that way. And until that's what happens the radical queers will never shut up. Heck, even if we all decided homosexuality was normal they just find something else to bitch about.

Heck, even if we all decided homosexuality was normal they just find something else to bitch about.

Yep. Lessee . . . There's the marriage penalty tax. Then there is the unqualified joy of the divorce courts. Property settlements and division of property. And alimony. Child support. Child visitation. Enforcement of all of these things once the ex from hell decides that he, she, or it, as the case may be, doesn't want to play by those rules. Pre-nuptial agreements. Oh, and spousal abuse laws, the enforcement of same, and the sometimes perverse results of enforcement. And that, of course, is just for starters. There is also the impact of marital status, and the particular foibles of ones spouse, on such mundane things as credit ratings; medical, life, disability and automobile insurance; the ability to obtain and maintain security clearances for certain forms of government employment, and on, and on, and . . . .

The homosexuals want normal? Are they sure they want normal? Are they really, really sure? Perhaps they should be careful what they wish for - they might actually get it. They'd certainly feel a lot less gay, and fabulous, and whatever else it is that they think that they are now, once they got normal. On the other hand, just think of the entertainment value it would hold for the rest of us.

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