I finally got around to reading Garrison Keillor’s snide little piece on gay marriage at Salon.com. Clearly he believes that it’s more important to hide the real complexity of life than to deal with it, embrace it. So what if “gay marriage will produce a whole new string of hyphenated relatives”. My family loved Tom (my father’s partner, friend, and lover for over 20 years), and we’d have been happy to call him by a family name rather than the euphemistic “partner”.
Schmuck!