Yet another example of separate but "equal"...

So to-day Connecticut jumped on the civil union bandwagon. I'm pleased that the legislation passed, but I'm afraid that it just doesn't make me want to dance with glee.

According to a report on Newsday.com by Susan Haigh from the Associated Press, "The legislation grants gay and lesbian couples the same rights, privileges and obligations as married couples in Connecticut, but does not allow them to wed."

In other words, separate and equal. Didn't the Supreme Court find the policy of separate but equal to be inherently unequal in the landmark decision of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka in 1954? Granted, Chief Justice Warren was writing with regard to public education but his words hold true here, "To separate them from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone." Just replace the word "race" with "sexual orientation" and it becomes apparent that the gay and lesbian community is being deprived of the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment.

Sed fugit interea, fugit irreparabile tempus...

Sed fugit interea, fugit irreparabile tempus - But meanwhile, the irreplaceable time escapes. Virgilius, Georgica

And so I've found. I'd hardly clicked 'Publish Post' when there was a noise like a hoop and time just rolled away and now it is over two months since my last post.

Let me see, what do I need to do? Oh, yes:

Re: Terri Schiavo.

I'm thankful that the judges involved had the intelligence and courage to do what they did. Mrs. Schiavo's parents are lunatics, Tom DeLay and the rest of that crowd of ice cream suit wearing snake oil salesmen all need to be horsewhipped. I wonder if they've ever attended a high school or even grade school social studies class. As I seem to recall, the Republicans were all about states' rights and the individual, not interfering with private personal issues.

Re: Pope John Paul II.

Good-bye, Sir. I wonder if you realized as you lay dying the suffering your teachings have caused. Perhaps you felt some little part of the pain your hateful language toward gay men and women as your body finally collapsed. Then again, you probably didn't. While you weren't completely loathsome, you, sir, were no saint.

Re: My Birthday

Yep, another flippin' birthday went flying by back in March. Whee.

Re: Seattle

Ah, yes, the move. For some reason, I'm nervous as hell about this move. I took to-day off to fire off resumes. Keep your fingers crossed.

Oh, well. That's enough for now.