I'm a bit frustrated with Mollie: she dropped a bomb against gay marriage and departed in a pre-emptive huff.
I would like some feedback from our arguments, but it ain't gonna happen. Her forum name suggests she's three years younger than me ( i was born 1945), or perhaps 20 years: we early and later baby boomers, and many pre-baby boomers knew how to question everything, and change what we didn't like. We refused to be brainwashed by the status quo. We were happy to see anti-gay laws vanish and the law removing itself from the bedrooms of consenting adults. We are broad minded and open to new ideas.
But Mollie65 asks:
Am I being unreasonable to feel despair at the gay marriage vote, so I will sign off permanently: cannot find common ground with those who are so ecstatic about this undermining of a foundation of our society.
I'm not sure anyone is ecstatic; just a sort of quiet satisfaction than another injustice is about to vanish. And as for undermining the foundation of our society - what foundation? I just don't understand. Is discrimination a foundation of our society? I don't think so. Who does gay marriage hurt? No-one that I can imagine.
Grrrrrrrrr