Dirty Dishes	Dirty Dishes Archive

Dawn is no fan of marriage, homo or hetero. Nonetheless, it has been heartening to read otherwise conservative columnists twisting and squirming as they struggle to indulge their homophobia whilst homos are campaigning to... become like them! David Brooks, the right-wing suit who blathers on PBS and scribbles in the New York Times (and elsewhere) had Dawn rolling on the floor with his recent op-ed piece excoriating liberals for framing the case for gay marriage as a civil rights issue. According to Brooks, the case for marriage is a moral one, and he begins his column on the subject, "Anybody who has several sexual partners in a year is committing spiritual suicide. He or she is ripping the veil from all that is private and delicate in oneself, and pulverizing it in an assembly line of selfish sensations."

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Wow. Dawn can only imagine what Mr. Brooks would think of those with a penchant for several sexual partners in an evening. Dawn queried Mr. Brooks on the issue, but has not yet received any reply.

Mr. Brooks waxes on about the rapture that awaits newlyweds: "Married people who remain committed to each other find that they reorganize and deepen each other's lives. They may eventually come to the point when they can say to each other: 'Love you? I am you.'"

Again, wow. Two paragraphs earlier the man was worried about committing spiritual suicide, and here he's endorsing psychosis marked by extraordinary boundary issues.

Dawn is pleased not to be Mrs. Brooks. A feeling, no doubt shared by Mr. Brooks....