Since I, Scanner Brian, originally hail from the Connecticut farm country, I have been watching with great interest as the rural rednecks, the city bigots, and the pro-gay holdouts react to the decision last week to allow homosexual marriages in the state...
Suffice it to say, so far, the victors have received no free ride...
From the Hartford Courant, which, in the interest of full disclosure, I wrote for from 1996 to 1999, here are two letters to the editor:
The state Supreme Court decision recognizing same-sex marriage in
Connecticut [Page 1, Oct. 11, "Free To Wed"] is above all a victory for
religious freedom.
Finally, the United Church of Christ, Unitarian, Episcopalian and other
churches and religions that perform marriages for gay, lesbian and
bisexual couples have the dignity, freedom and equality they deserve.
The government never should have been in the marriage business in the
first place. This ruling puts marriage back where it belongs. Now each
church can decide for itself!
Sara Ferah, Hartford
Two days in a row we have this front-page splash on the passage of gay
marriage and all the elation and celebration. Do not forget, however,
that this will not have a happy ending.
God is the creator of happy endings and he will have the last word, not
the judges or politicians. When he acts, and that day is coming very
quickly, it will make 9/11 and the economic crisis look like a walk in the park.
We, as a nation, have turned away from him and trampled on his commandments for too long.
Helen Ryan, Enfield
There is so much funny here that we won't even bother, but we do have to ask: when are these religious yahoos going to get it? People have been saying for thousands of years that "that day is coming very quickly" and that "the end is near" and yada yada yada... and nothing has come of it. Time to get with reality, folks.
(P.S.: Lee Bolin of the LGBT Caucus responds with kind of a cheap shot: [A hypothetical third letter: Dear Helen: I thought I'd be
neighborly and let you know that some drunk has hacked into your e-mail
account and is sending out crazy stuff in your name. -- LB])
Image via Flickr. Letters via the Courant.
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