[Mpls] Anti-GLBT Politics

[wmmarks]

What disturbs me most, some days, about anti-GLBT politics, is the 
enormous amount of time it takes away from the real business of elected 
officials and civil service employees. Their business is to solve 
problems for the population, not create them on company time, as it were.

I suspect that, within not too long a time, there will be discoveries 
stemming from the Human Genome Project that show sexual identity to have 
genetic markers. Scientists have already discovered that there is 
hanky-panky going on among female fruit flies. When this happens, are we 
then going to go through another Copernicus routine, slicing and dicing 
scientists who insist that the earth revolves around the sun or that 
sexual identity has a genetic determinant? It would seem so.

An example: We're still piddling around with evolution (proposed as a 
certainty in the late 19th century, the theory being natural selection 
as far as Darwin was concerned) and something called "intelligent 
design," a notion absurd on the face of it. It is clear, if one follows 
enough humans through the life cycle, from our helplessness for years 
after birth to our agonies from the effect of gravity on our bones and 
flesh and all the steps in between, that our design as a species does 
not necessarily show superior intelligence. Nor is it the feathered, 
gilled, or four-leggeds who created, out of their intelligent design, 
the atom bomb or any other weapons of mass destruction. Worse yet, it is 
not the business of government to decide, since whether it is or is not 
intelligent, government's job is to consider what to do with the 
conundrums of the people either way, repair the roads and keep the 
police and fire departments working, and keep a civil relationship with 
other countries.

At this moment, one of the big stressors for the entire state is the 
cost of home heating oil. If we are intelligently designed, and living 
in the frozen north as we do, we are paying very close attention to that 
issue, to the exclusion of lesser subjects. Is that what's happening? I 
don't think so. Thousands of households have no idea whether or not they 
can afford the cost of heating  through the winter. Even though Xcel 
cannot shut off the heat til spring, they can shut it off then, then 
turn around and charge another fortune to turn it back on IF the money 
to pay the back bill is supplied from some source. Thousands of 
households may not be able to cope. How does this affect young families 
with babies? Seniors? Fixed income households? It's not as though that 
many families have so much in wages that they can afford to pay the 
inflated rates and still live in a building and feed themselves.

So long as legislators, from the least public office to the big kahuna 
of offices, who have better sense than the anti-GLBT forces, have to 
spend time countering this mouse ca-ca, anti-GLBT forces are wasting 
government time and money fiddling while Rome burns.

Intelligent design my Aunt Fanny!

WizardMarks, Central