What an alliance!

I've heard whispers in the past few months of possible legislation to make legal marriages between people and their pets, gaming avatars, between adults and children, and amongst groups.

Apparently, this has caught the attention of more than a few people, because I've also heard rumors (if you can call Mom's letters and Jenni's information rumors) that there's an alliance forming to help stop this. The really funny thing is who's joined this alliance.

Of course the religious groups of all stripes--Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, Buddist, shinto, etc.--are against it. Well, the Mormons and Muslims aren't against all of it, obviously, but they're against most of it.

No, the interesting thing is that the gay rights groups--all of them--are against it, for various reasons. According to Jenni, who's got a really good ear for this sort of stuff, the gays are afraid that this will make a mockery of the institute of marriage. They're joining in with the Christians, Muslims, and Orthodox Jews (who, ironically, said that gay marriage would make a mockery of the institute of marriage) in an attempt to buy off enough politicians to put up an effective opposition.

I suppose it's not such a surprise--when the gay lobby was working to get the civil unions recognized as marriage in the eyes of society, they swore to oppose the slippery slope that the evangelical women's clubs claimed that gay marriage would send us all sliding down. They even went so far as to throw NAMBLA out on its ass--even called on the president to fire his safe schools czar as a member of his cabinet because a member of NAMBLA, open or otherwise, could not help make schools safe.

Mom called it working with the lesser evil to stave off the greater. Jenni's been laughing her fool head off since I showed her Mom's letter.

Hypocrisy really does know no bounds. For once, I'm glad I'm a C.P.A. Otherwise I doubt I could resist pointing that out to Mom and laughing in her face.