Tuesday, December 02, 2003
STATE HOUSE STATS Number of emails the Rep I work for received from all over the country in the last few days opposed to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling upholding gay marriages: over six hundred. Number of emails from all over the country in the last few days supporting the ruling: about eight. Polls in Massachusetts show that people don't have much of a problem with the idea of gay marriage. So my point: say so! Go to Mass.Gov. There below the picture of cute Governor Mitt Romney and Lt. Governor Kerry Healy you will find a box labeled 'State Government.' Here you can find every email address of every Senator and Rep. Go for it! Don't let everyone from Alabama and Idaho have the last word. As in, get off your sorry lazy whinny asses and contact your government representatives to get your view heard. Tell them Anna sent you. You don't have to write a book. 'Cause believe me no one is going to read it. You just have legislative directors like myself deleting all the emails whilst tallying the pros vs. cons (it's all about percentages). It is enough to write: "I am in favor of the SJC's recent ruling to uphold gay marriage. Go Massachusetts!" Otherwise don't blame me when the Massachusetts Legislature passes an amendment to the constitution that defines marriage as that being between a man and a woman...
Of course it was all I could do not to respond to some of these people. I should have forwarded some of the emails to my home email account but I didn't so I'll have to paraphrase a bit. Here was the gist:
Tyranny! Impeach the judges! I feel so sorry for the residents of Massachusetts! Marriage has always been between a man and a woman; please do something that this stays so! The Bible says x,y,z! Please support an amendment to the constitution! This is the beginning of America's demise; what next Idaho?!
You know people act as if a couple of thousand years were a long time in terms of establishing benchmarks. Do they realize that on a grand scale, as in the course of the universe, these couple of thousand years wouldn't even register as a blip. Don't people have anything better to do than peep through their suburban sprawl Wal-mart blinds to judge other people's lives? The bottom line is your god has no place in my state and thank god for the fine print that stipulated this because holy-mother-jesus-of-christ are people fanatically inclined about issues... Even our neighbor Canada thinks we are prudes: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/02/international/americas/02CANA.html
If people would spend more time living and less time judging others we might get somewhere. As rapper Eminem says so rappishly:
You better lose yourself in the music, the moment
You own it, you better never let it go
You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow
This opportunity comes once in a lifetime yo
I met on the subway a friend I used to do German-speaking tours with. A lovely woman from Switzerland in her sixties. She and her friend were on their way in to Boston to hear a lecture about the big landfill project in Boston during the 19th century. Comparative to the Big Dig Project today from an engineering standpoint. What an inspiration these two. They were excited to get out at the Aquarium station because it had just re-opened recently and they wanted to check it out. They had a specific deli in mind to go for lunch. And what about the fabulous bakery to buy some bread before returning home? Yes, they agreed. People read and watch things which just reinforce what they already believe anyway. But they didn't think it used to be so. People are angrier now. The country more polarized. The light in both of their eyes kicked ass over every twenty-year-old on the train.
Of course it was all I could do not to respond to some of these people. I should have forwarded some of the emails to my home email account but I didn't so I'll have to paraphrase a bit. Here was the gist:
Tyranny! Impeach the judges! I feel so sorry for the residents of Massachusetts! Marriage has always been between a man and a woman; please do something that this stays so! The Bible says x,y,z! Please support an amendment to the constitution! This is the beginning of America's demise; what next Idaho?!
You know people act as if a couple of thousand years were a long time in terms of establishing benchmarks. Do they realize that on a grand scale, as in the course of the universe, these couple of thousand years wouldn't even register as a blip. Don't people have anything better to do than peep through their suburban sprawl Wal-mart blinds to judge other people's lives? The bottom line is your god has no place in my state and thank god for the fine print that stipulated this because holy-mother-jesus-of-christ are people fanatically inclined about issues... Even our neighbor Canada thinks we are prudes: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/02/international/americas/02CANA.html
If people would spend more time living and less time judging others we might get somewhere. As rapper Eminem says so rappishly:
You better lose yourself in the music, the moment
You own it, you better never let it go
You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow
This opportunity comes once in a lifetime yo
I met on the subway a friend I used to do German-speaking tours with. A lovely woman from Switzerland in her sixties. She and her friend were on their way in to Boston to hear a lecture about the big landfill project in Boston during the 19th century. Comparative to the Big Dig Project today from an engineering standpoint. What an inspiration these two. They were excited to get out at the Aquarium station because it had just re-opened recently and they wanted to check it out. They had a specific deli in mind to go for lunch. And what about the fabulous bakery to buy some bread before returning home? Yes, they agreed. People read and watch things which just reinforce what they already believe anyway. But they didn't think it used to be so. People are angrier now. The country more polarized. The light in both of their eyes kicked ass over every twenty-year-old on the train.
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