The little things also count
| July 19th, 2004Last week I commented on the right to presumed parenthood when one’s spouse gives birth. I think most recognize that right as a major benefit of marriage. As couples marry, it’s also worth keeping track of the little things. Today, Newsday.com reports that Geico will recognize same sex marriage when issuing car insurance policies (at least in NY state.)
It’s even better though. I initially, Geico refused. That prompted David Hroncich to contact other companies. So, Allstate, and State Farm both will now follow the New York state attorney general’s interpretation of state law and recognize same sex marriage when issuing insurance.
Of course, getting better car insurance is hardly the main point of marriage, as Hroncich says:
So, felicitations to Hroncich and his husband. And applause to the NY state for extending recognition to marriages performed out of state.
November 5th, 2004 at 7:18 pm
Well, I guess it’s due to a spambot that this is up, but this is just another reason to love Eliot Spitzer. He goes after corporate fraud AND he recognizes same-sex marriages!
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December 9th, 2004 at 1:42 am
WARNING - RISE OF FASCISM IN OUR NATION:
http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/authoritarianism_and_fascism_alerts/index.html
Fundamentalism is a key component of Fascism (see the 14 common threads to seven fascist regimes here: http://www.secularhumanism.org/library/fi/britt_23_2.htm)
Below is a list of things some Muslim fundamentalists hate about our culture:
* They hate liberated women, and all that symbolizes them. They hate it when women compete with men in the workplace, when they decide when or whether they will become breeders, when they show the independence of getting abortions, and changing laws that previously gave men more power over them.
* They hate the wide range of sexual orientations and lifestyles that have always characterized human societies. They hate homosexuality, can’t confront the homosexual tendencies that exist in them, so project them outward and punish them in others.
* They hate individual freedoms that allow people to stray from the single rigid sort of truth they want to constrain all people. They hate individual rights that let others slough off their simple certainties.
Not much about these revelations is really new. We saw all this before, when Khomeini’s Muslim fundamentalists wreaked such havoc in Iran in the years following 1979. We have long known that Muslim fundamentalism is a mortal enemy of freedom and democracy.
But a real surprise came just a few days after September 11th, in that remarkably unguarded interview on “The 700 Club” between Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson. It was remarkable partly because these men are so media-savvy it’s amazing they would say such things on the air. But it’s also remarkable because as they listed the “causes” of the September 11th attacks, we heard exactly the same hate list the Afghan Taliban had outlined:
* They hate liberated women who don’t follow orders, who get abortions when they want them, who threaten, or laugh at, their arrogant pretensions to rule them.
* They hate the wide range of sexual orientations that have always characterized human societies. They would force the country to conform to a fantasy image of two married heterosexual parents where the husband works and the wife stays home with the children - even when that describes fewer than one-sixth of current American families.
* They hate individual freedoms that let people stray from the one simple set of truths they want imposed on all in our country. Pat Robertson has been on record for a long time saying that democracy isn’t a fit form of government unless it is run by fundamentalist Christians of his kind.
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