Harry´s Blog

Herbert Kuhner

These days, when marriage is no longer a social necessity, those who previously had an aversion to the sacred knot, like gays and profligates, are making a bee-line for the altar

Profligates, who enter respectable professions (such as politics), need a cover for changing partners and casual encounters, and what can provide that better than matrimony? And ditto for gays. A gay who wants to stay in the closet can make a good try with a wife and kids.

Yes, not all of the staid Conservatives and Evangelicals are leading Simon-pure lives. More than a few seem to be clandestine and surreptitious high-livers.

(Actually the divorce rates in Conservative Red states are higher than the Liberal Blue states, and the rate in Massachusetts, a state that permits gay marriage, is the lowest in the nation.)

Who would suspect a square, who fills and empty suit, of engaging in hanky-panky? But many, to their chagrin, have been roughly pushed out of the closet.

Multitudes of gays find the closet confining. They want celebrate their gay-dom with all the trimmings. In the old days, gays could do what they do without the spectre of pregnancy hovering over them, and they considered themselves free from the scourge of matrimony. But now many gays want to tie the knot to gays, and even adopt children or bear a sperm-bank offspring.

Excuse me for being partisan! The Democratic Party has a liberal approach and is all for gays hitching up to each other. And as far as profligates are concerned, they assert that what consenting adults do is their own business. But the Dems are a boring batch. There are seldom fireworks in their quarters.

Most of the fireworks seem to be exploding in Republican closets. Again and again, another respectable citizen is ejected from the comfy confines of his cozy closet to be exposed as what he has been bashing.