Gay Marriage

I'm rather a little bit tired of this debate, but it seems that whenever we talk about politics, my dad and I lock horns (Lok horns even, ha ha ha) on this issue. For my moot team interview, I had to arrange my nebulous thoughts into something coherent and lawyerly, and this is what I said:

-We should allow gay marriage
- Because it is wonderful for that minority of society
- We do lots of things for many minorities and gay people should not be excluded
- Underlined by the obvious fact that what's good for a minority often translates into
- PUBLIC GOOD.

The only argument of my forbear that actually made sense

-We should not allow gay marriage
- because we have no idea how vast the societal impact could be (consider polygamy v monogamy)
- Since we have no idea, and it could be bad, best to not do anything drastic until the US has served as a petri dish for the rest of us. (God bless America.)

I have read in Microtrends (that horrendous and nefariously reductionist book by that Mark Penn) that since there are significantly more gay men than lesbian women, the outlook for the next five decades might be that there will be an upswing in single, older women who were never married. Spinsters! I wonder what kind of revolution will be on the horizon of our age. If there exists a theory that an excess of young, single men encourage war, what would an excess of single women do? (The teenager in me says "something aaaaaawesome!")



In other news, I got a job. A law firm internship. At Lovells . The interview was a bit interesting, especially the part where me and the person from HR began talking about crime / detective novels. Criminal law has proven to be rather a hilarious subject, and philosophically challenging. Has anyone read Malcolm Pryce? Aberystwyth crime series?