Milk Bull

How shocking that, thirty years to the month after the murder of Harvey Milk, Californians will vote on Proposition Eight, which seeks to define marriage, so very eccentrically, as the union of one man and one woman?

Er, no, actually.

Not unless you want to lower the age of marriage to, well, what, exactly? Zero? Nothing else would really have sufficed for Milk and the rest of the “sex by age eight or it’s too late” crowd who invented, not yet two generations ago, the idea that homosexuality was about being rather than just doing, and was somehow any basis for individual or collective economic, social, cultural or political identity.

Nor would anything else really suffice for their noisy successors today.

By no means only in California.