Captain Oblivious

Strangely, there wasn't an unusually large number of locusts or frogs at the ceremony, nor was anyone struck by lightning. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, miraculously, has apparently survived. And none of the straight attendees experienced a sudden, forcible conversion to homosexuality. How odd. And anti-climactic. Looks like gay weddings are just like every other wedding I've ever attended. We even had otherwise reasonable people doing the Chicken Dance in public.

*shrugs*

Now here's a conservative nightmare for you: for the next several months, gay people will get married in Massachusetts, and society will not collapse (*gasp*). Divorce rates will not increase. Children born out of wedlock will decrease ('cause all those children of gays whose parents suddenly got married will have to come off that list). And nobody's relationship with their deity will change at all. Oh, the humanity!

On a serious note, a number of straight people at the wedding remarked that the ceremony led them to a greater understanding of, and appreciation for, the commitment of marriage in their own lives. I've said it before: gay marriages will have a net *positive* effect on the state of marriage and the family in Massachusetts. And, eventually, the rest of the country will wake up.