Open Letter to the Marriage Conservatives

As you're well aware no doubt tomorrow NJ legislature will be voting on the topic of Marriage Equality.

Now we already have Civil Unions in NJ. They're part of a half-measure that stinks of the 'separate but equal' bull the Black civil rights movement fought against in the late 1800's and early 1900's. It affords inferior legal rights de facto and serves only to reinforce the image of a culturally inferior demographic that homosexuals have struggled with.

Striking gender specificity from the definition of Marriage is the least evil solution. We make a bunch of gay and lesbian people happy and all us straight folks get to stay Married too. As an added bonus we enhance the parsimony of Marriage as it pertains to law and don't have to tread all over the cultural conditioning which prescribes such weight to 'being Married.' Plus we come one step closer to stomping out Bigotry. It's a win for humanity and evolution.

And for the record, reducing all non-religious Marriages to Civil Unions or some other form of psuedo-marriage discriminates against non-religious folks like myself.

If the logical argument doesn't work for you try the following Reductio Ad Hitlerum: The Nazis hated gay people too.

The Missing Link

Recently it came to my attention that the article on Wikipedia regarding the Electric Universe model had been deleted. I found this distressing and yet further evidence that Appeal to Popularity continues to dominate what is seen as valid information and what is dismissed as 'pseudoscience.' Nonetheless the lack of a Wikipedia presence is a minor setback and highlights one important point: There is no clear consensus view on just what constitutes the Electric Universe theory. I've watched the video put out by the Thunderbolts group and it still fails to present a solid cosmological model but rather relies heavily on covering the weakest points in the prevailing model. This is a shame because it gives the impression that EU theory orbits around Big Bang theory and that just makes it easier to ignore.