Scola is indeed awesome.

Awwww, how sweet of Tom.

x-posted with Spike's: I offer this as evidence of how good Matilda was with Chile Pepper yesterday! [link]

This may be the most bat-shit crazy defense of Prop 8 I've come across.

Oy, brenda. Hard to know where to start with that one.

Marriage is to protect female sexuality? From whom? Those foolish women who think they're allowed to do with their sexuality what they want? Or no one's going to want it unless they have to marry us?

Sorry, I haven't read the article, yet. I keep forgetting the Christian Science Monitor, for all its reasonableness, is the paper of a religion.

edit: Have read. Am even more annoyed. So unless society protects little ol' us by making those untrustworthy men marry us, we'll just become chattal and slaves and concubines without having the personal wherewithal to smack said man in the face and saying "No way, buster", or even just calling the cops and saying, "This guy, in jail, now." Because marriage is the only source of power we apparently have.

Marriage is to protect female sexuality? From whom?

I think so you only get raped by the one man, rather than by any random Joe? Or something? My head is still spinning.

Apart from my head-spinny, angry reaction to the initial premise, there's the more important follow up: but marriage as a cultural institution has changed and women's role in society has changed. That's not the basis for marriage in America in 2010, so why should it be the basis for Judge Walker's decision?

Salad's usually more trouble than it's worth, unless it's dinner, including two or three kinds of lettuce, red cabbage, green onions, 'shrooms, shredded carrot, tender yellow squash and zucchini coins, two kinds shredded cheese, a dollop of cottage cheese and raspberry balsamic vinegar, no oil (can't do tomatoes, peppers, onions, cukes). Or caesar.

Lunch is usually a handful (6-8) of green leaf lettuce or romaine leaves and a boiled egg, a slice of cold turkey loaf, or a chunk of grilled chicken breast. Undressed lettuce is pretty inoffensive, and I can eat it out of hand and not wrestle it with a fork.

Marriage is a necessary defense of a woman’s sexuality and her human liberty from determined assault by men who would turn her into a slave, a concubine – something less than fully human.

I don't think my male husband protects me from determined assault by men who would turn me into a slave or concubine. Pretty sure if I had a woman partner she would help me fight off these determined assaulting men, or if alone I might manage to find a way to protect myself. Then again, I guess I have just been lucky that I haven't had to deal with these determined men who want me for a slave or concubine. Or in fewer words, @@.

Timelies all!

Happy Birthday Aims!

Home now. Tired.

Marriage doesn't protect women from assault. In many cases it simply legalizes it. That guy is living in a world that is not this one.