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02/05/2004 Entry: "In Fifty Years"
In fifty years my grandchildren will scarcely be able to comprehend the world I grew up in. They will undoubtedly hear of the war on terror and its McCarthy like implications, they will hear of life before the internet and they will hear of a time when same sex marriages was a presidential issue. They will ask me why people stood in the way of something that makes total sense, the way we think of the people who stood against integration or woman's suffrage. It's hard to put yourself in a world where such stances are taken seriously, yet here we are in a world where people aren't allowed to marry because of their gender. Senator Frist has said that the Republican Senate will enact law banning same sex marriages, I think of Strom Thurman Democrat turned Dixicrat in 1948 speaking on his segregationist platform. Why does it not sound as stupid to them as it does to me.
This issue will die with them. With their hate and their fear. I have asked my students at the High school where I teach. The school is 85% boys in a not so good part of the South Bronx. They are like many highschool boys, Homophobic, misogynistic and full of fragile ego. Yet, when asked the question "if same sex couples should be allowed to marry?" They answered "Of course they should. They should be allowed to marry whoever they want. This is a free country, right mister?" I didn't tell them the truth. Still, there is no doubt in my mind that same sex rights will be resolved by the time they are adults. I mean if Fucking Disney recognizes same sex Unions, can America be far behind?
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