Which Side are You On?

Today, 3/26/13, ration goes on trial in the Supreme Court.  On one end we have our interconnection, all people equal under the law.  There is no greater principle to our society.  Not limited to our American nation, but our global community.   

Marriage is certainly no mandatory device for procreation, love, or pair bonding.  We have ritualized the contractual nature of pair bonding into a device which attempts to cement a foothold on stability which is advantageous on some root to ward off the chaotic side effects of bastard children, arguments over wanton trysts, and ultimately the inheritance of wealth.    

The lines of how one divides the lots of kings and queens is so much more civil when bastards can be syphoned from the “legitimate.”  For in the case of treasured gold we have evolved marriage into a mechanism of tax deductions, who is privy to bedside conversations in beeping hospital rooms, custody and support over minors, alimony, rights to domiciles, property segregations.  The process of divorce illuminates the consequence of marriage far more than any wedding day.  The plea of any family-court-room parent or x’d-out spouse knows the reasons to have a right to marry whom we please and accept the risks.   

Opponents will argue sanctity of procreation, traditional interpretation and practice.  For the first a hysterectomy or vasectomy would make one ineligible for a wedding band.  For the second what of people round up into camps or roped up in trees.  The arguments are filled with lies linked to the grand lie; that justice or morality lives in tradition, any sacred book, or any pious elite.  Morality lives within the free will of the individual breathing not by the democracy of the majority, but the civilities of equality, kindness, empathy, love, and a recognition of our universal interconnection independent of how many find them convenient. 

Today ration goes on trial in the Supreme Court.  One side cannot even make a constitutional appeal in its own state, because its argument is inherently infected with a cross-contamination of a version of church and state.  It cannot speak these verses without losing in a court of law, despite passing some majority in the contest of public sentiment.  Without this counterbalance America passes ever so into the theocratic dominion of countries like Iran, where the secular government is but a puppet.  People begin to speak one way in public and another at the dinner table in fear of being shown an infidel to our naked emperors.  

Today the principles of Thomas Jefferson that allowed a country to form despite puritanical biases are on trial.  Ration is about to burst into song.  This will be a victory for humanity as protests rant in Paris, we each must ask in our ration, “Which side are we on?”