Saturday, December 6, 2008

[1830 - Naval Observatory is established at Washington, DC]

[1864 - William S.(Surrey) Hart, actor, born in Newburgh, New York]

[1884 - Washington Monument construction completed]

[1886 - Joyce (Alfred) Kilmer, poet, born in New Brunswick, New Jersey]

[1887 - Lynn (Lillie Louise) Fontanne, Emmy Award-winning actress,
born in Woodford, United Kingdom]

[1896 - Ira Gershwin (Israel Gershvin), lyricist, born in New York City]

[1898 - Alfred Eisenstaedt, photographer, born in Dirschau, West Prussia (now Tczew, Poland)]

[1900 - Agnes (Robertson) Moorehead, Emmy Award-winning actress, born in Clinton, Massachusetts]

[1913 - Eleanor Holm, Swimming HoF, Olympic Gold Medalist, born in Brooklyn]

[1921 - Otto Graham, College and Pro Football Hall of Famer, born in Waukegan, Illinois]

[1924 - Wally (Wallace Maynard) Cox, actor, born in Detroit, Michigan]

Un-natural Law

A fundamentalist initiative to amend the California Constitution to ban gay marriage in the State on the grounds that it violated "Natural Law" went down to defeat in a previous election. This may have been due to a statement from the spokesman for the group who thoughtfully explained that the reason Natural Law was violated was that: "The body parts don't fit together." The notion that a homophobic bigot should hold himself out as an authority on how body parts fit together in acts of gay sex was apparently so absurd as not to be lost on the electorate.

OR IF YOU PREFER

Unfortunately, that same electorate was not smart enough to resist dictating to everyone living in the State a fundamentalist definition of marriage, and now we have a California Constitution that takes away individual rights instead of guaranteeing them.

William's Whimsical Words:

Come to think of it, these don't look like they fit together very well either:
Maybe the government should just get out of the business of running our personal lives when what we are doing does not hurt anyone.

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