Ya know, sometimes its better to respond to what is written rather than to what you imagine is there.

[P]eople are coming to realize that they’ve been sold on a false dream. They look around and see that things have gotten worse instead of better for the “traditional family” since they voted to ban gay marriage.

I wish I could believe it’s that simple. Yes, polls show increasing support for same-sex marriage, but that doesn’t mean that a majority of voters won’t, once they get in the voting booth, have doubts that make them vote “against” instead of “for”.

And most heterosexual voters won’t see the choice between allowing or denying same sex marriage as being analogous to the choice Joey’s dad offers. They don’t see the harm their opposition to same-sex marriage does because, I believe, most of them don’t really care enough about the issue to give it serious thought, so they’re easily swayed by the “we’ve always done it this way” argument.

How odd… no one here resorted to “triumphant declarations of what a fraud and a failure heterosexual marriage is.”

“The swing-set may be broken and there may be poop in the catbox” and “things have gotten worse for the traditional family” and “Brian and Maggie are horrible lying parents” all seem to me far more an expression of negative envy tainted with Schadenfreude than of positive envy that yearns for more happiness and prosperity for oneself.

In cultures that had the concept of the “Evil Eye”, this is precisely what the “Evil Eye” was: a positive “I wish I had two fat cows like my fortunate neighbor” type of envy that had rotted into a perversely negative “I wish my neighbor’s two fat cows would die” envy — and then taken on a magical and destructive life of its own.

He didn’t. He said that fathers who are in intact families are more involved with their children.

>You’re making important points but it’s awfully insensitive to this week to make your “bad dad” analogy.

I don’t know how you can get that. The father is a near universally recognized analogy for an authority figure. Mothers are expected to be nurturers, not as much all-powerful authority figures.

Why are you so sensitive about all references to fathers being completely respectful and singing of their praises?

Wait, let me look again…

Nope, no one.

“No, you stupid Magic Fish,” shouted the peasant with annoyance. “I don’t want to wish for a second cow; I just wish that my neighbor’s cows would die!”
–old Russian joke and aphorism

When partisans for same-sex marriage resort to triumphant declarations of what a fraud and a failure heterosexual marriage is, they simply confirm the wisdom of the above quotations, IMHO.