..almost making my post a dead-on-target prediction.

The central issue here is to be consistent with your SELF.

But when we impose other people’s goals for achievement as being necessary for our own “success” we have immediately limited ourselves.. a Husky is not a failure because he doesn’t chase rabbits as well as a beagle. Likewise, a Beagle is not a failure for not pulling sleds as well as a Husky. Each of our paths in life need to be measured by things we have been called to or are gifted with or goals we set for ourselves. If you don’t want to run the rat race of trying to have a bigger mortgage then your neighbors, then don’t.. and it doesn’t mean that you are a failure just because that is a standard that society imposes.

On Gay Marriage.. there is absolutely no point in that agenda. There is nothing whatsoever be gained by allowing Gay Marriage to be a legally recognized status. With or without it, no one is denied a job, a passport, a visa, ownership of a vehicle, or a choice seat on the city bus. The only logistic argument for Gay Marriage would be a tax break.. but the FairTax would deliver more “successfully” on that “goal.” All that’s left for a motive in Gay Marriage that after this would be some from the Gay community trying to validate themselves by getting a “certified approval” that they are like other people. I say: Why try to be like others? Gay Marriage would redefine OTHER people’s values to feel better about things they may be insecure about. Look! If you are gay, then either be confident about your decision and shut-up or else change like so many in the Exodus movement do.. they consider it a “self-actualization” process.. it’s THEIR choice. But don’t make one choice, then measure yourself by other people’s standards, then try to get them to redefine their standards so that you pass them by definition. I’m not addressing the moral discussion of Homosexuality, that is a different discussion. I’m just saying that “Gay Marriage” is a self-contradicting objective to mask ongoing insecurity and the desire to get approval from outside of others to shout-down a voice inside that persistently says otherwise. If I’m to believe that Homosexuals are truly happy inside, they need to drop the Gay Marriage issue. That raises my own eyebrows. Invent something else.

Not that I’m disagreeing with you, but cliche thinking is a logical fallacy. saying that “the longest blade of grass gets cut first” is not by definition analogous to America’s situation. You might also say that “only the strong survive,” and suggest that military might will ensure America’s prevalence. A cliche, ultimately, means nothing in regards to the situations against which it’s posed unless there is some good reason to suggest it should.

I guess I don’t have a lot else to say about the rest of your post, but your comment on the “gay pride crowd” at the end certainly raises an eyebrow. To quote: “The gay pride crowd will realize that they’ll save more in taxes by supporting the Fair Tax than a Gay Marriage honeymoon could ever dream to deliver.”

What are you even getting at here? At the risk of over-analyzing what might have been an off-the-cuff comment, let me make a few remarks. First, what would a “Gay Marriage honeymoon” hope to deliver? My answer is that it would deliver the same thing that most honeymoons “deliver”: a period of time, be it short or long, that two people use to fully bond, fully connect, and prepare themselves for the rest of their lives together. That might sound trivial to some, but for anyone who’s been on a honeymoon, getting to say, “we just got married!” and enjoy the full fruits of that is a pretty big deal.

And you compare that to the Fair Tax. I’m not saying that I disagree with the Fair Tax, but Jesse, do you really think that getting an edge on yearly income is more important to gay people than a honeymoon as I’ve described it, given that they’re by law prohibited from a traditional honeymoon since they can’t get legally married? (yes, of course, they can still to a honeymoon after a mock-wedding, but it won’t, of course, be treated with the same respect.) I’m sorry if I’m totally missing your point.