The Definitive Post on Marriage

After reading Digby's post on marriage, one can see that the crew at Daily Dish are out of their league. She (Digby) makes good use of this story, which I was going to write on earlier:

Patrick’s brother testified that Brett’s mere presence in the hospital was “hurting” Jeanne and offending her religions beliefs. Jeanne told Brett that if Patrick was going to return to his life with Brett after recovering from the stroke, she would prefer that he not recover at all.

Now that's some family values there.

These two people lived together for twenty-five years and the court ruled in favor of that psycho mother against the wishes of this grown man.

There's major coverage of that story at Bilerico in a post by Karen Celestino-Horseman (this is the one Digby links to).

The story is appalling, and all too common. Digby, like most other commentators on this story I've seen, uses it to point up the necessity for legalizing same-sex marriage. However, there's one factor here, I think, that everyone has missed, which I'm going to point out in bald terms because I'm not nearly as nice as they are: we can have thousands of stories like this one and it won't matter, because those who oppose us don't care. Like this horrible woman and her attitude toward her son, they don't see us as human, and our relationships, our families, and our children mean nothing to them in human terms. They're incapable of feeling any empathy, so don't expect James Dobson or Tony Perkins or the Wildmons or the Pope to give a damn about the pain they are causing gays. If they cared about people, if they had any love or compassion in their make-ups, they wouldn't have declared the culture war to begin with.