ANOTHER TWIST ON A FLAWED CONCEPT
February 1st, 2006 by Brian
We have occasionally noted some of the mistaken conclusions that follow from the flawed notion that “love” alone “makes a family.” But the one highlighted in the Republican-American’s Jan. 10th editorial, “Marital Fluke,” really takes the cake:
To all those homosexual agitators who believe same-sex marriage won’t lead eventually to the legalization of incest, polygamy or bestiality, we submit Sharon and Cindy.
Sharon Tendler is a 41-year-old British citizen. Her new husband, Cindy, is a 35-year-old resident of Israel. They got “married” last Wednesday at Cindy’s place. Sharon wore white and had pink flowers in her hair, while Cindy came to the nuptials in sleek gray and white. Why not? Cindy was the “groom” and a red-blooded male, though not in the traditional sense of man and wife.
But then again, nothing about this wedding was traditional.
After they were wed, Sharon knelt and gave Cindy a kiss on the nose. The bottlenose, that is. That’s right, Mr. Sharon Tendler is a dolphin. (If he had come down with cold flippers before the ceremony, would he have been the chicken of the sea?)
Their “marriage license” is worthless, of course, and this was nothing more than a publicity stunt by an animal-rights wing nut with too much time and money on her hands.
But their “relationship” and the extent to which she went to solemnize it offers a glimpse into a not-too-distant future in which, in Ms. Tendler’s words, marrying a dolphin or any other animal is not considered “a perverted thing. … It’s just something that we did because I love him, but not in the way that you love a man. It’s just a pure love that I have for this animal.”
And there you have it: Interspecies wedlock is just another perverted example of how love makes a family.
